The difference is that that is Sweden and you're Swedish, which makes for few unexpected surprises. Here in Singapore, you'll find there's a bit of a learning curve for new overseas peeps.
Now, Singapore isn't Laos or Cambodia, yet all you have to do is read some of the threads here to see to the various ways expats are, at times, quite out of synch with the locals, socially, in day-to-day life and in the business realm.
If you're the malleable kind and you can bend and flex to these little revelations on the spot, then no worries. But most newcomers go through a bit of an adjustment phase lah.
If this adjustment phase comes at the time when you need your wits about you most of all, i.e. deciding on where to settle whilst learning the ropes in your new job, you may find it a bit tough going.
Add to this the initial jet-lag and particularly the weather here, which probably couldn't be any more different to the weather in Scandinavia, and you may find that you'll be glad you got that agent after all.
Incidentally, FYI, a lot of companies provide in-house
property agents.