Jersey, Channel Islands
Jersey relocation advisers
The only call you need to make.
High Value Residency, work and housing status, or a business relocation — planned and run end to end, by one person who acts only for you.
Or ring +44 7781 150662 and talk to the person who would run it.
- Independent
- Jersey-based
- Fixed written quotes
- Payments disclosed
Three things decide whether a Jersey move works, and none of them is the removals van.
Your residential status. Which housing that status actually lets you occupy. And the order the paperwork is done in.
Almost everyone underestimates the second one.
Who we work with
HVR
High Value Residency
You are considering High Value Residency and want to know, privately, whether the numbers work before anyone else is involved.
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Moving to Jersey for work
You have a job offer, or you are trying to fill a role, and the housing and work status rules have turned out to be the hard part.
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Business relocation
You are moving a company or starting one, and need the licence, the structure, the premises and the staff permissions to arrive in the right order.
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Where we sit
Locate Jersey is free, and you should use it
Locate Jersey is the Government of Jersey's inward investment team. It gives free, confidential advice to high value residents and to businesses moving to the island, and it is a single point of contact inside government. It is a genuinely good service and nothing here is a substitute for it.
It is also, necessarily, the island's team. Its job is to attract the right people and businesses and to move applications through government. Ours is narrower and entirely one-sided: we work for you. We tell you when a property does not qualify, when a timeline will not hold, when an adviser is charging you to do work we could have done, and when the honest answer is that Jersey is the wrong island.
The setup fee is fixed and agreed in writing before we start, so the cost of running your move is known at the outset and does not grow if the move takes longer. On property we also charge a success fee, and it is only payable if you complete on something we found — nothing if you find it yourself, and nothing if you walk away. Where a third party offers us a commission we tell you in writing before we accept it, so you always know who is paying us for what.
What Locate Jersey covers and what it does not, and who each party in a Jersey move is actually paid by.
The six things that decide a Jersey move
Every figure below is published by gov.je or Locate Jersey and dated on the page it links to.
High Value Residency
£250,000
The minimum you commit to, every year
Not a one-off fee and not a ceiling. If your income dips below £1.25m you are deemed to have earned enough to pay it anyway.
What High Value Residency requiresProperty
£3.5m
And very few houses above it
The qualifying minimum for a house. On an island this size the genuinely available stock at that level can be counted on two hands.
Property requirementsResidential status
6
Statuses, and yours decides where you live
From Permanent Entitled to Standard, which replaced Registered on 14 September 2026. A job offer settles half the question and leaves the harder half untouched.
The six statusesWaiting
10 years
To reach Entitled the ordinary way
Five gets you Entitled for Work. Both need continuous, evidenced residence, which is why the paperwork starts in week one.
How status is earnedBusiness
Part 7
The licence you cannot trade without
Business Hub permission sets who may run the business and how many staff you may employ. Incorporating first tells you nothing.
The business licenceHow we are paid
Fixed
A fixed fee, then a success fee on property
The setup fee is fixed and quoted before we start. On property we add a success fee — 1% of the purchase price, or 10% of the first year’s rent — payable only if you complete on something we found. Any payment from a third party is disclosed in writing first.
How we workHow an engagement runs
01
A conversation, before anything is committed
Forty minutes on what you are trying to do and when. If the honest answer is that you do not need us, that is what you will hear.
02
A written plan and a fixed quote
The sequence, the people who need to be involved, what each stage costs and how long each one takes. You own the plan whether or not you engage us.
03
We run it
Applications prepared and tracked, advocates and tax advisers instructed and coordinated, agents and removers briefed, deadlines held. One point of contact, one thread.
04
The first ninety days
Registration cards, banking, GP registration, schools, driving licences, utilities, the car and the dog. The part that decides whether the move actually worked.
Written for people actually doing this
Sourced to gov.je and Locate Jersey, dated, and re-checked every quarter. Figures on this page and across the site were last verified on .
- The cost of living in Jersey
What the island actually costs, category by category.
- Buying property as a new arrival
Qualified and unqualified property, and why the distinction governs everything.
- Renting in Jersey
A tight market, short notice periods and what landlords ask for.
- Schools in Jersey
States, fee-paying and private schools, and how admission works.
- Healthcare and registering with a GP
Jersey health is not the NHS. Budget for it before you arrive.
- Banking for new residents
Opening an account without a card, an address, or a local history.
Questions we get asked
- Locate Jersey is free. Why would I pay you?
- Locate Jersey is free, it is good, and you should use it. It is also part of the Government of Jersey: it promotes the island and processes your application. We sit on your side of that table. We carry the admin, coordinate the advocate, the tax adviser, the agent and the removals firm, and we tell you when something is a bad idea. Plenty of people need only Locate Jersey, and we will say so on the first call.
- Do you give legal or tax advice?
- No. We are not a law firm, a tax practice or a regulated financial services business. We coordinate the regulated people who do that work, brief them properly so you are not paying an advocate to gather documents, and translate what comes back. Our regulatory position is set out in full.
- Is there a Jersey golden visa?
- No. High Value Residency is a residential status granted under the Control of Housing and Work (Jersey) Law 2012. It is not a visa, it does not grant citizenship, and it does not by itself give you the right to enter or remain in the Common Travel Area — immigration permission is a separate question. Sites selling "Jersey residence by investment" are describing something that does not exist under that name.
- What does it cost?
- Two parts. A fixed setup fee for running the move — the applications, the advisers, the coordination and the admin — quoted in writing after the first conversation. Then a success fee on property: 1% of the purchase price, or 10% of the first year’s rent, payable only where you complete on a property we found. If a third party offers us a commission on any part of your move, we tell you in writing before we accept it.
- Can you guarantee my application will be approved?
- No, and neither can anyone else. The decision rests with the Minister or the Business Hub. What we can do is make sure the application is complete, consistent and supported, and tell you honestly before you spend money if we think it is unlikely.
Start with a conversation
Tell us roughly what you are planning and when. We will tell you what it involves, what it is likely to cost, and whether you need us at all.