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Moving Home in London: House Moving Checklist

If you are thinking about moving home now or in the future, then we can provide you with a breakdown of the stages you will need to go through in order to reach your objective of owning a new home, selling your current home or assessing other alternatives. We offer help at any stage in finding suitable professional help or alternatively by doing the work ourselves.

We aim to provide you with personalised information and guidance, and for this reason, may need you to answer questions that help us to understand your personal situation.

As a first-time buyer, we understand that you may have different needs. You will need to deal with mortgage lenders, estate agents, surveyors or solicitors. We can help you understand the new terminology and explain the processes. You may need information about the local amenities or the current market conditions, as well as seeing a range of properties currently on the market.

You may hold a property as a passive investment, and when the time comes to sell, you will want experts to maximise your profit or as an executor needing to sell a property, which is unfamiliar to you, we can provide the service to meet your needs.

Having taken your circumstances into account, we can help you make the right choices.

Six to Eight Weeks before your Moving Day

• Begin 'weeding out'

• Attend a 'car boot sale'

• Obtain estimates from three moving companies

• Contact your home and contents insurers to arrange the transfer of your policy to your new home

• Notify all professional contacts and banking institutions of your forthcoming move

Four Weeks before your Moving Day

• Select a mover

• Begin packing items that are seldom used

• Make arrangements if pets need to be transported

• Contact the DVLC

• Make forwarding arrangements with the Post Office

Two Weeks before your Moving Day

• Confirm travel arrangements

• Have your car serviced so that it is prepared for the trips it may have to make

• Notify the utility companies of the exact completion date on both the old and new properties. Arrange for transfer of utilities for the new property and final accounts for the old one

• Notify other service companies with whom you may have an arrangement

• Telephone the moving company and speak to their representative to review the details of your move and confirm their schedule.

One Week before your Moving Day

• Make sure the moving company has the address and phone number of your new residence and a contact number on the completion day.

• Set aside all documents, valuables and important papers that will be travelling with you.

• Make final arrangements at your bank to ensure that they are aware of any money movements on completion day.

• Make sure that utility and service companies have your new address if matters with them are unresolved.

• If you hold a 'Farewell Party', keep it simple and use disposable paper plates and cups.

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