How much did it cost you to move?

[pinkmews]

We are looking to move from our first home but I have no idea how much to save up for fees and moving costs.

On average, how much did it cost you to move?

If relevant we live in the North East of the UK and are looking to move from a 3 bed terrace to a 5 bed semi.

Including:
Purchase of new house (not price of house, just fees to sell)
Sale of current house
Moving fees (we want someone to do the move for us)
Anything else?

Sale: EA fees were 1%. Solicitor charged a few hundred - would probably have been cheaper if it had been done as a package with the purchase but we sold and moved into rented for a while so ended up as two separate transactions.

Purchase: solicitor fees were about £1.5k (complicated issues that pushed this up) and the movers for a 4 bed local move cost £1k including packing for us (they earned every penny, they were superb). It would have been about £600 if we had packed ourselves.

Obviously you’ll have stamp duty and any mortgage costs as well.

We are trying to move at the moment. Here's my rough figures:
Estate agent fees £3600
Solicitors fees £2000
Stamp duty £8000
Removals firm £2000

Wow that's so expensive!

I guess I didn't realise it might cost 10k just to move.

We are also moving.

Our fees:

estate agent - £1500
Legals - sale and purchase - £1800
No stamp duty (selling at £96/buying at £176)
Movers I haven’t looked into yet.

Also early repayment charges if you move your mortgage. We’re porting ours which saves us about £3k!

The bulk of that is stamp duty though.
It will depend first and foremost on the cost of your house.

It all depends on the value of the houses you are buying and selling, as EA's commission and stamp duty will be a percentage.
The cost of the removals will depend on how much stuff you have, how far you're moving and whether you want a packing service.

Nothing to sell.
Stamp duty: £1750 (got in on stamp duty holiday but house was over £500k)
Basic survey: £600
Solicitor including searches, land registry etc: £2000
Movers: £600 (we packed ourselves)

We moved in January and bought and sold. These were our exact costs. We had no stamp duty.

Removals - 1279.10
Estate agents - 2700
Solicitors - 4218.77

@ItsSnowJokes

We moved in January and bought and sold. These were our exact costs. We had no stamp duty.

Removals - 1279.10
Estate agents - 2700
Solicitors - 4218.77

Why were your solicitors fees so high?

We allowed 10k and another 5k for incidentals... eg a fridge that stops working after the move, lampshades and curtains, takeaway dinners

It was long distance and we needed a months storage which didn't help but we haven't touched the 5k (yet)

The problems we had were the cheap online solicitor employed by our buyers

Oh yes, the survey. I think that was a few hundred as well although it got lumped under “mortgage” in my head.

We moved in December.

Estate agent £1700
Solicitors £2800
Hiring a moving van £160 for 48 hours and packed/moved ourselves as only going down the road!

No stamp duty and no survey. Free mortgage advisor and no arrangement fees.

@BestOption

That price includes all search fees, disbursements etc....... so basically everything we had to pay the solicitors. it was also selling a leasehold flat and buying freehold, so the leasehold sale cost more.

This was interesting, I plan to move some day and wondered about fees etc x

[quote ItsSnowJokes]@BestOption

That price includes all search fees, disbursements etc....... so basically everything we had to pay the solicitors. it was also selling a leasehold flat and buying freehold, so the leasehold sale cost more.[/quote]
I'll be doing the same (hopefully anyway) but I'll have NO contingency other than walloping a credit card.

I can't wait as my job will be changing and I'll be earning less, so won't be able to borrow as much if I wait.

Houses should cost half as much if you're single 🤓

Or I could buy outside of the SE, but then I wouldn't have the job and wouldn't be where my closest friends are and after this year, that seems more important than ever!!

There are moving costs calculators around if you look online. Rightmove used to have a really helpful one based on area and house price both selling and buying, but I can't seem to find it now.

Oh well, this could be the only time in recent history to be happy your NOT in New Zealand!! Recently sold a rental ( so not actually moving costs) and it cost me over $30k (over £15000)

Stamp Duty on new purchase
Solicitors buying and selling c£1500
Estate agent selling 0.75% of sale price plus VAT
Removals did oursleves so £140 van hire
New mortgage about £1k in set up / brokers - interest only mortgage just to cover gap between buying and selling
Electrical survey / Gas survey c£400 for both plus £1200 of electrical work (not essential to do this)
EPC £90

Also had second home stamp duty and capital gains tax on first as bought 2nd before sold first. Claimed back second home stamp duty when sold first and HMRC paid back with a bit of interest.