Land in Medellín
already knowing someone
A building in the middle of the city with a coffee bar, a desk with your name on it, and a room full of people who moved here before you. The visa, the bank account, the Spanish, the weekends. And when you are ready, somewhere of your own.
- ✓Somewhere to sleepMonth one, booked before you fly
- ✓A visa that fitsMatched to why you are coming
- ✓Bank, health, phoneWeek one, all three
- ✓A desk and a roomWhenever you want it
Sorted before you land, or in your first fortnight. Property comes later, once you know which part of the valley you want to wake up in.
The whole thing happens under one roof
Most people who move here spend the first six months assembling this out of strangers on the internet. We put it in one building instead: work, paperwork, people and dinner, five floors, one address.
Lobby and café
Where you land on day one, jet-lagged and holding a suitcase. Coffee, reception, your mail, and someone who already knows your name.
Hover a floor, or tap one on a phone.
Nobody moves country for the paperwork
They move for a life, and then spend a year not quite having one. The part that is hard to buy is a room where somebody remembers your name, so that is the part we run every month, whether or not you rent anything from us.
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For whoever landed this month. Half the room arrived within the last eight weeks, which is the entire point of it.
Tenants of the building, directory partners and the people relocating here. The fastest way to meet someone who already solved the problem you have.
The things people get wrong: visa routes, Colombian tax, buying as a foreigner, incorporating here. Small groups so you can actually ask.
A long table, a set menu, about twenty people. Less networking and more getting to know the city you moved to.
From a plane seat to an address, in the right order
The order matters more than the list does. People arrive and go looking at apartments in week one, which is the single most expensive mistake available here.
- 01Before you flyA plan and a bed
One call to work out what you are actually coming for. We book somewhere to sleep for the first month so you land with an address instead of a search.
- 02Day oneLanding
Airport pickup, keys in your hand, a Colombian SIM in your phone, and a coffee downstairs before you do anything else.
- 03Week oneThe paperwork
The cédula de extranjería, a Colombian bank account, health cover and the tax ID. The four things that block everything else, cleared first.
- 04Week twoPeople
Your first networking night upstairs, a desk on the coworking floor if you work, and a Spanish teacher who comes to the building.
- 05Month oneThe city itself
Neighbourhoods on foot with someone who lives in them, then Guatapé and the coffee region on a weekend. You cannot choose where to live from a map.
- 06When you are readyRoots
A long lease, or buying. Only once you know which part of the valley you want to wake up in. Most people take six months, and that is the right answer.
Twelve things that make a city feel like yours
Every one of these is either us or a partner we put our name to, and every one of them is a thing people normally solve alone, badly, in a language they are still learning.
Short stay first, long lease later
Legal partner, matched to why you came
Colombian account and transfers
Written for foreign residents
Local SIM and plan on day one
Private or group, in the building
Hot desk to private suite
Weekly, upstairs, no fee to attend
NIT and monthly bookkeeping
Bilingual options and the enrolment run
Guatapé, the coffee region, Cartagena
When you are ready, not before
A valley at 1,495 metres that never has a winter
Medellín is narrow, green, and steep on both sides, and the weather does the same thing every day of the year. You can work a New York day, finish at five, and still be on a mountain by six.
And then, eventually, somewhere of your own
Twenty five years of selling property here, and the advice is still the same: rent for six months first. When you do know the neighbourhood you want, this is what is on the books today.
Gated community, 5 to 10 minutes from El Tesoro.
Tell us when you land
Even if it is a year away and you have not booked anything. We will tell you what to sort before you fly and what can wait until you are here, which is most of it. WhatsApp +57 (318) 692 8619 in Colombia, or call +1 (727) 902 5641 from the US.