It the hectic global environment of today, business people from all over the world travel from continent to continent with increasing regularity. Indeed, it is not uncommon for corporate men and women to live between several countries, with home bases in a few of the world's leading financial and business districts.

And no longer are these multi-homed individuals on the Forbes 500 list. Ordinary business people making reasonable amounts of money find themselves in situations where it is simply more practical to have a couple of flats around the world than it is to fork out for a hotel every week.

Property agents have caught onto this particular phenomenon and have begun to offer more and more property directed specifically at the busy international business person. Executives can now rent, fully furnished, flats in New York, rooms in Frankfurt and corporate apartment Sydney.

This kind of real estate is kitted out to cater for the hectic existence of the person who lives between countries. The fact that property comes complete with furniture and appliances is the first of many benefits that taking a home designed for a business person has to offer. The new occupant, who has no time to browse for couches, collect paint samples and buy wooden spoons for the kitchen, will be thrilled to find everything already there and ready to be used.

The fully kitted out apartment, directed primarily at the international business person, is thus designed to make life, which, when lived across times zones, can become wearing, just that little bit easier. Executives from all over the world can heave a collective sigh of relief, joyous at the thought that they've seen their fill of third rate hotels, and can at last begin to feel at ease in a country that has had to become one of their homes.