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Full-service relocation · St. GallenWelcome Service is a family-owned relocation firm founded in 1990, with offices in Geneva, Lausanne and Zurich, handling permits, home search, schools and settling in for families and HR teams.
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Serviced apartments in St. Gallen
expat-services.ch lists 3 hand-checked English-speaking serviced apartment providers in St. Gallen: City Pop, UMS Temporary Housing and Welcome Service (our partner).
Besides English, they also work in French, German and Italian. Every profile shows the services, languages and contact details, checked by hand before going live.
Serviced apartments in St. Gallen
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City Pop
Serviced apartments · St. GallenFully furnished studios (Pops) booked by app or website for 4 to 52 weeks in Oerlikon, Altstetten and the city. Utilities, Wi-Fi and TV included; cleaning on demand; stay confirmation provided.
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UMS Temporary Housing
Serviced apartments · St. GallenLong-running Swiss portal and service for furnished temporary apartments and sublets (1+ months), with contract tools, security package and support for expats and relocation clients.
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Local facts
Serviced apartments: what's particular to St. Gallen
Every overnight guest without tax domicile or weekly-resident status in the city pays the city's guest tax: CHF 3.00 a night in hotels and CHF 2.00 in youth hostels, holiday flats, rooms and group accommodation, plus a CHF 1.50 surcharge that pays for public transport in Ostwind zones 210, 211 and 231 (Stadt St.Gallen, checked ). Children under 16, people staying at least three weeks for work, training or school, and guests staying unpaid with a resident are exempt, and a host who breaks the rules can be fined up to CHF 500 (Stadt St.Gallen, checked ).
The host collects the tax and pays it monthly to St.Gallen-Bodensee Tourismus, and Airbnb has charged it on bookings itself since 14 July 2025 (St.Gallen-Bodensee Tourismus, checked ). The canton's yearly accommodation levy is CHF 30 a bed for holiday flats and CHF 20 for private rooms, billed by the commune. Hosts have guests complete a registration form, and signed forms of foreign guests stay on site for at least five years (St.Gallen-Bodensee Tourismus, checked ).
A furnished flat rented for longer means registering like any resident within 14 days (2026) (Stadt St.Gallen, checked ), and the registration also checks health insurance (Stadt St.Gallen, checked ). People with a main home elsewhere in Switzerland can register online as weekly residents with a lease and a work or school confirmation, for a fee under the city's tariff (Stadt St.Gallen, checked ).
Registering in St. Gallen
Newcomers register with the city's Bevölkerungsdienste in the Rathaus within 14 days (2026) (Stadt St.Gallen, checked ), or online through eUmzugCH for moves within Switzerland (Stadt St.Gallen, checked ). Foreign nationals arriving from abroad register before starting work, bring their permit and passport, and pay a processing fee at the counter; the cantonal Migrationsamt at Oberer Graben 38 deals with the permit (Stadt St.Gallen, checked ). See registering at your commune.
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