Welcome to this blog related to my relocation to Vienna!
This site aims at helping other Expats to settle down in
Austria... Enjoy the visit and send me your feedback!


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Finding a Bank

The Private Banking website is providing a detailed list of 100+ banks in Vienna. For French expats, the MFE is providing at this address a list of the French banks with representations in Vienna.

Note that the "Bank Austria Creditanstalt" (http://www.ba-ca.com/en/index.html) is providing special services and facilities for the Expats and the International Community in Vienna. There are 2 locations with multilingual teams of financial advisors in the 1st district.

Bank Austria Creditanstalt Service Centre for Expatriates
Address: A-1010 Vienna, Am Hof 2
Tel : +43 5 05 05 - 52267
Fax: +43 5 05 05 - 56955
E-mail: expatriates@ba-ca.com

Apartment Rental Contract

In Austria, the commission fees of the real estate agencies are quite high. These fees will be normally equal to 3 times the monthly rental cost (+ 20% VAT). Note that you should be able to reduce these fees to 1 or 2 time(s) the monthly rental cost (+ 20% VAT) if you reduce the duration of the rent, for example from 5 years to 3-2 years.

Regarding the rental costs, the rents for unfurnished or furnished apartments in Vienna may vary, but it seems that in general the rental costs are lower than in Paris for example.

For more info on the rental types, contracts, districts... the list provided on February 25 contains such info.

Links of Expats Websites

Some links of websites dedicated for Expats in Vienna. Enjoy!

Vienna Expats
Virtual Vienna Net
American Women's Association of Vienna

Round-trip to Vienna

After going through dozens of apartment listings, having translated all of these listings from German to English/French, having mapped the addresses on a map... I did a one-day trip to Vienna for visiting 5 apartments and found one :)

From the Airport to the Center

The English version of the website of Vienna Airport is http://www.viennaairport.com. The most convenient way to reach the city center when getting at the airport of Vienna (VIE) is to take the "City Airport Train" (CAT). It's a 16-min journey non-stop. The timetable is available at http://www.cityairporttrain.com.

Subway, Trains, and Trams

Maps of S-Bahn (Trains)/U-Bahn (Subway) and Tramways...



Official website of the Austrian Railway: http://www.oebb.at
Network Maps of Vienna City and Vienna Region (in PDF): http://www.schnellbahn-wien.at/english/maps.htm