Should we go ahead with our house move?

[Rozbos]

I thought I would throw this out to the hive mind and get other people's opinions because it feels like ours are at odds with everyone else's!

We are due to move next week, exchange on the Monday, complete on the Tuesday. Everyone else in the chain still wants to go ahead with the move despite Coronavirus and the fact that we should only be leaving the house if essential - eg for food shopping. To us moving house, whilst something we are desperate to do, doesn't fall into this category so we have said we want to postpone until restrictions are lifted.

Added to this our removal company are part of the BAR so have followed their advice and stopped doing removals as of last night and in line with Boris's announcement. Everyone else in our chain however think we are being incredibly unreasonable and that we should just find another removal company and use them and just get the move done. It's a chain of 7 and we are the only ones thinking thy is way so I am now beginning to doubt myself so help - what should we do?!

Our solicitor is advising exchange and complete on the same day atm because things are changing daily and who knows if you won't be able to move your money for completion. For this reason they are only working on moves in the next two weeks. You only have a day between yours and you are doing it next week so if you were with our solicitor she would probably green light it.

But yes, can you live without potentially broadband/snags/random works not being completed in your new house as trades/suppliers will inevitably shut down over next few weeks.
Sorry, perhaps not helpful. Difficult decision.

Well you can’t now without a removal van

So that’s for reasoning if they kick back.

You physically can’t move without support of a removal company. End of

www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/26/housing-market-frozen-by-government-during-coronavirus-lockdown