How much does moving cost

[Petrolsmasher]

Looking at selling my property and actually shocked as to the price of selling it my god!


House is worth 120k. Fees look to be in the region of about 3 thousand pounds to sell :/. How can i make this cheaper? Purple bricks seems to save a bit but still costly and not heard great things about them.

[GT03ROB]

Now you know why people elect not to move but improve what they have!!

[jas xjr]

I live in a popular suburb in Staffordshire. Everything sells quickly,apart from those listed with purple bricks. I don't know why but it is definitely happening.

[GetCarter]

Then there's the price of the removal firm. Check out the prices!

[singlecoil]

Whereabouts does a house have to be to be worth £120K?

[Petrolsmasher]

singlecoil said:

Whereabouts does a house have to be to be worth £120K?

Pretty sad low blow you rich snobby idiot.

[Petrolsmasher]

GetCarter said:

Then there's the price of the removal firm. Check out the prices!

just going to rent a van, we dont have a lot of stuff.

[Petrolsmasher]

has anyone used 'housesimple', sounds like purple bricks but with more positive reviews.

[PositronicRay]

If you look on right move there is a calculator. Don't forget the stamp duty on the new place and the solicitors fees.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/cost-of-moving-house.h...

Compared to all the other stuff a proffesional removal team and van are a bargain. Worth every penny.

[GetCarter]

PositronicRay said:

If you look on right move there is a calculator. Don't forget the stamp duty on the new place and the solicitors fees.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/cost-of-moving-house.h...

Compared to all the other stuff a proffesional removal team and van are a bargain. Worth every penny.

Bloody hell. To move to my house (buy only) would, they say, cost £32k.

[GT03ROB]

GetCarter said:

PositronicRay said:

If you look on right move there is a calculator. Don't forget the stamp duty on the new place and the solicitors fees.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/cost-of-moving-house.h...

Compared to all the other stuff a proffesional removal team and van are a bargain. Worth every penny.

Bloody hell. To move to my house (buy only) would, they say, cost £32k.

Inestingly just ran the figures through it & it comes bang on what I reckoned for my current planned move. Still .....

[PositronicRay]

GT03ROB said:

GetCarter said:

PositronicRay said:

If you look on right move there is a calculator. Don't forget the stamp duty on the new place and the solicitors fees.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/cost-of-moving-house.h...

Compared to all the other stuff a proffesional removal team and van are a bargain. Worth every penny.

Bloody hell. To move to my house (buy only) would, they say, cost £32k.

Inestingly just ran the figures through it & it comes bang on what I reckoned for my current planned move. Still .....

It's 32k cause you have a posh drum, miles from anywhere.

We moved 2 yrs ago and the calculator was about right, removal team a little cheaper. Still eye-watering though.

[Lindun]

Not sure I agree on the dislike of Purple Bricks. Yes they’re cheap but for a reason and if you’re in an area that sells well then these sort of agents are a godsend for reduced fees. If there’s more work needed to market your house then paying full whack with a local established agent is worth the extra fees though.

Horses for courses I reckon.

Petrolsmasher said:

singlecoil said:

Whereabouts does a house have to be to be worth £120K?

Pretty sad low blow you rich snobby idiot.

Totally agree. Takes a special kind of idiot to think they’re superior because their small house in the SE is worth more than someone else’s much more spacious house elsewhere.

[Mabbs9]

Yopa, online estate agent, avoid some of the negatives by offering a no sale no fee option.

It keeps them interested in trying.

Good luck.

[kambites]

Personally if I was selling I wouldn't use a high-street agent. I've had too much second-hand experience of them when friends have been selling and by and large they appear to provide absolutely no value add; especially when you consider their massive fees.

I don't know which of the online agents is best, but I think they're all far better value than the conventional ones.

Although I live in the south so estate agent fees are utterly dwarfed by stamp duty anyway.

Edited by kambites on Saturday 20th April 13:46

[hotchy]

singlecoil said:

Whereabouts does a house have to be to be worth £120K?

Actually you can get a decent 3 bed detached needing some modernisation up north near me.

Also you get 3 bed terraced houses selling for 55k and renting out at 550 a month. Nit everyone lives in the surrounding London bubble.

[anonymous-user]

GetCarter said:

PositronicRay said:

If you look on right move there is a calculator. Don't forget the stamp duty on the new place and the solicitors fees.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/cost-of-moving-house.h...

Compared to all the other stuff a proffesional removal team and van are a bargain. Worth every penny.

Bloody hell. To move to my house (buy only) would, they say, cost £32k.

Stamp duty my son, stamp duty!

[anonymous-user]

PositronicRay said:

It's 32k cause you have a posh drum, miles from anywhere.

We moved 2 yrs ago and the calculator was about right, removal team a little cheaper. Still eye-watering though.

It's actually not. It's simply the SDLT that fks all of us when buying at the 'wrong' end of the market.

[GetCarter]

garyhun said:

Stamp duty my son, stamp duty!

The benefit of building rather than buying! (mine cost 225k to build)

[anonymous-user]

GetCarter said:

garyhun said:

Stamp duty my son, stamp duty!

The benefit of building rather than buying! (mine cost 225k to build)

Built my last one too so very aware. I was only commenting because people seem to be surprised at the numbers. SDLT has been like this for a long time so I'm surprised at the surprise.