Is anyone moving now?
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Exchanged today, But it seems that the removal companies have taken vans/lads off the road.
Sellers were the same, They pushed back completion a week due to no companies that can do the date.
Were in a rental for an extra 2 weeks anyway due to the notice period but have our removal date which is 10 days after completion!
Will give us time to do some painting I suppose.
Sellers were the same, They pushed back completion a week due to no companies that can do the date.
Were in a rental for an extra 2 weeks anyway due to the notice period but have our removal date which is 10 days after completion!
Will give us time to do some painting I suppose.
pacenotes said:
Exchanged today, But it seems that the removal companies have taken vans/lads off the road.
Sellers were the same, They pushed back completion a week due to no companies that can do the date.
Were in a rental for an extra 2 weeks anyway due to the notice period but have our removal date which is 10 days after completion!
Will give us time to do some painting I suppose.
That's not to be sniffed at. Don't underestimate how much easier it is to paint without any furniture in. I did the 3 bedrooms we were going to use whilst we stayed in the rental for an extra week before moving everything and am very glad I did.Sellers were the same, They pushed back completion a week due to no companies that can do the date.
Were in a rental for an extra 2 weeks anyway due to the notice period but have our removal date which is 10 days after completion!
Will give us time to do some painting I suppose.
pacenotes said:
Exchanged today, But it seems that the removal companies have taken vans/lads off the road.
Sellers were the same, They pushed back completion a week due to no companies that can do the date.
Were in a rental for an extra 2 weeks anyway due to the notice period but have our removal date which is 10 days after completion!
Will give us time to do some painting I suppose.
Interesting - not sure if it will be the same in our area. We're expecting to move around the third/fourth week of Feb but haven't exchanged yet; not selling the current house so once we have completed we can choose the moving date. I was expecting that to be quite easy provided we don't go for a Friday. Might have to speak to some movers or we could be moving in March or April Sellers were the same, They pushed back completion a week due to no companies that can do the date.
Were in a rental for an extra 2 weeks anyway due to the notice period but have our removal date which is 10 days after completion!
Will give us time to do some painting I suppose.
Movers have been in a recruitment crisis for a few years now.
What's really happening is that over the last 18months many have had to lay staff off, or reduce their number of days, which has resulted in them leaving.
There's very very little interest paid to the moving industry but at the very sniff of an upturn this year or next the problems will be obvious.
Movers have also been shutting up shop, selling off and giving up at quite a rate over the last eighteen months.
Those that have had to downsize staff numbers will have known at the time replacing them will be near impossible but will have had no choice.
This doesn't even cover the HGV driver drain the industry faced through COVID. Which has further compunded it.
I strongly suspect that right now the size of the moving industry could only service 2/3 of a busy month, tops.
What's really happening is that over the last 18months many have had to lay staff off, or reduce their number of days, which has resulted in them leaving.
There's very very little interest paid to the moving industry but at the very sniff of an upturn this year or next the problems will be obvious.
Movers have also been shutting up shop, selling off and giving up at quite a rate over the last eighteen months.
Those that have had to downsize staff numbers will have known at the time replacing them will be near impossible but will have had no choice.
This doesn't even cover the HGV driver drain the industry faced through COVID. Which has further compunded it.
I strongly suspect that right now the size of the moving industry could only service 2/3 of a busy month, tops.
- Those that have given up are the ones who were hammered by the absurd stress levels through COVID, and, if you follow the online chatter have simply had enough of being pi55ed about by Conveyancers.
Accepted an offer on our property week and a half ago.
We've had an offer accepted on the property we've wanted the whole time we've been looking.
FTB buying our house
House we are buying, owners are moving into daughters house upon sale.
With regards to movers, we are selling our first house, a terrace, luckily we are quite lean in terms of furniture so will be moving everything ourselves. Main furniture being:
1x Sofa
1x 'love seat'
1x coffee table
1x Super King bed
2x sidetables
1x Double bed
1x dining room table + chairs and bench
1x office desk + chair
1x dining room drinks cabinet
1x outside table and chairs
We had most of our furniture fitted by a joiner so not much to take with us.
My partner has access to a Transit van through her work which we can use for free aswell as me loaning my workplace Caddy for free too.
We've had an offer accepted on the property we've wanted the whole time we've been looking.
FTB buying our house
House we are buying, owners are moving into daughters house upon sale.
With regards to movers, we are selling our first house, a terrace, luckily we are quite lean in terms of furniture so will be moving everything ourselves. Main furniture being:
1x Sofa
1x 'love seat'
1x coffee table
1x Super King bed
2x sidetables
1x Double bed
1x dining room table + chairs and bench
1x office desk + chair
1x dining room drinks cabinet
1x outside table and chairs
We had most of our furniture fitted by a joiner so not much to take with us.
My partner has access to a Transit van through her work which we can use for free aswell as me loaning my workplace Caddy for free too.
Seventyseven7 said:
Anyone got any advice on estate agent fees when selling. I’m in Surrey and selling a property around 650-675k. Estate agent is asking for 1.5% plus VAT as their fee. Is this good?
That is top end, in my view.I used to be an Estate Agent for a mid to high end rural agency in the South East (admittedly, a few years ago now) and 1.5% was our starting point, but we very rarely achieved it - usually ended up at about 1.2% (sometimes 1% if we felt we could shift it easily).
Cow Corner said:
We moved ourselves once... and it served only to convince me that paying a removal firm is money well spent.
The whole process is difficult and stressful enough as it is.
This. I even paid for both the kids cabin beds to be built. One of them you need to assemble the top and lift it on to the bottom and it's too heavy for Mrs FB to lift that high. 50 quid well spent as it meant I could sort out other things in the house so we were fairly set up at the end of the dayThe whole process is difficult and stressful enough as it is.
Seventyseven7 said:
Anyone got any advice on estate agent fees when selling. I’m in Surrey and selling a property around 650-675k. Estate agent is asking for 1.5% plus VAT as their fee. Is this good?
Offer them 2% if they achieve £675k, sliding scale down to 1% at £650k. If you get full asking than that's £662 after their fees.Fast Bug said:
This. I even paid for both the kids cabin beds to be built. One of them you need to assemble the top and lift it on to the bottom and it's too heavy for Mrs FB to lift that high. 50 quid well spent as it meant I could sort out other things in the house so we were fairly set up at the end of the day
Maybe it's our age, we are both quite young, so also have (relatively) young family to help us with the move. Maybe we will live to regret that decision but we can store most of the furniture on our family farm so not like we are moving it all in one day.
Seventyseven7 said:
Anyone got any advice on estate agent fees when selling. I’m in Surrey and selling a property around 650-675k. Estate agent is asking for 1.5% plus VAT as their fee. Is this good?
You need to have a sit down with a cuppa and watch some U-tubemoving home with charlie
you will thank me later
steveamv8 said:
Seventyseven7 said:
Anyone got any advice on estate agent fees when selling. I’m in Surrey and selling a property around 650-675k. Estate agent is asking for 1.5% plus VAT as their fee. Is this good?
You need to have a sit down with a cuppa and watch some U-tubemoving home with charlie
you will thank me later
Percy. said:
Fast Bug said:
This. I even paid for both the kids cabin beds to be built. One of them you need to assemble the top and lift it on to the bottom and it's too heavy for Mrs FB to lift that high. 50 quid well spent as it meant I could sort out other things in the house so we were fairly set up at the end of the day
Maybe it's our age, we are both quite young, so also have (relatively) young family to help us with the move. Maybe we will live to regret that decision but we can store most of the furniture on our family farm so not like we are moving it all in one day.
k it ill do it myself, i will hire a lorry.......in the end a removals company with 5 of them, an 18ton lorry and a luton transit left our house packed to the brim, it took them from 8 am until nearly 1pm to load.
Thats not including around 7 tipper van loads i did prior to that of stuff from garage and garden into a container i have, it is also not including 2 rammed loads on my 7.5t tipper as well.......
Absolutely money well spent
it was stressful enough with them but i cant imagine the state id of been in if it was me, a couple of mates and father in law I didn't think we had much either.
Hers is going nicely as far as I can tell, had another viewing on mine.
If there’s a gap between hers selling and the new build being ready then it’s two moves and also storage costs. Just an extra 3k she’s been quoted for the second move and a realistic 3 months storage.
2k to pack and move.
3 bed semi with kitchen extension and garage conversion.
Sounds expensive to me and her so getting another quote.
Distance from one house to another is about 300 yds!
I Think they’re thinking about dismantling the wardrobes.
Got to go now as the inch thick contract needs to be read.
If there’s a gap between hers selling and the new build being ready then it’s two moves and also storage costs. Just an extra 3k she’s been quoted for the second move and a realistic 3 months storage.
2k to pack and move.
3 bed semi with kitchen extension and garage conversion.
Sounds expensive to me and her so getting another quote.
Distance from one house to another is about 300 yds!
I Think they’re thinking about dismantling the wardrobes.
Got to go now as the inch thick contract needs to be read.
To the two posts above.
2k to pack and move an average home is about right. Assuming it's a professional mover. Not forgetting it could be an awful firm quoting high.
Price is not an indicator of excellence or otherwise in this industry.
300yards is the same as six miles. Makes no odds. It's either 5 minutes, or twenty minutes. Which in the grand scheme of the day doesn't register.
To the comment above about 'didnt think I'd got much'. Nobody ever does!
I've surveyed nearly 40,000 house moves now in my career. It's a common thing. People look in the main bedroom and see 1 bed, 2 bedsides.
Which on their own is 4-5 minutes.
I look in the main bedroom and see 8 hanging garment carriers, 12 boxes, 2 pictures, 1 bed (which requires 15minutes disassembled) and 2 bedsides.
What I'm looking at is 25minutes work for a 2 man team.
Multiply that through the entire house.
2k to pack and move an average home is about right. Assuming it's a professional mover. Not forgetting it could be an awful firm quoting high.
Price is not an indicator of excellence or otherwise in this industry.
300yards is the same as six miles. Makes no odds. It's either 5 minutes, or twenty minutes. Which in the grand scheme of the day doesn't register.
To the comment above about 'didnt think I'd got much'. Nobody ever does!
I've surveyed nearly 40,000 house moves now in my career. It's a common thing. People look in the main bedroom and see 1 bed, 2 bedsides.
Which on their own is 4-5 minutes.
I look in the main bedroom and see 8 hanging garment carriers, 12 boxes, 2 pictures, 1 bed (which requires 15minutes disassembled) and 2 bedsides.
What I'm looking at is 25minutes work for a 2 man team.
Multiply that through the entire house.
milfordkong said:
We are trying our very best to move but absolutely nothing that meets our requirements has come on the market in months where we are (South Leicestershire) - Within our budget anyway... not much over our budget either really, it's very slow here, or at least it feels that way.
It's always slow here and anything good the comes on the market is snapped up, I live in one of the villages and as you can imagine anytime something comes up it's a bun fight.Sheets Tabuer said:
It's always slow here and anything good the comes on the market is snapped up, I live in one of the villages and as you can imagine anytime something comes up it's a bun fight.
I hear you, we last moved during the stamp duty holiday and it was a very different market indeed... though highly competitive, there were new houses of all shapes and sizes coming on every single day. The move before that we were in a similar position though, having to wait quite a while for a house we liked to come up for sale..There is a lot of stuff languishing on the market too, nice houses but in my opinion very over priced (I might say that as a buyer in the market, but as they are desirable houses in good areas I can't think of another reason for them sitting on the market for months and months on end).
Cow Corner said:
Seventyseven7 said:
Anyone got any advice on estate agent fees when selling. I’m in Surrey and selling a property around 650-675k. Estate agent is asking for 1.5% plus VAT as their fee. Is this good?
That is top end, in my view.I used to be an Estate Agent for a mid to high end rural agency in the South East (admittedly, a few years ago now) and 1.5% was our starting point, but we very rarely achieved it - usually ended up at about 1.2% (sometimes 1% if we felt we could shift it easily).
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