Another of Piffles speculative house moving costing questions - removals firms what's the average cost then?

[Piffle]

For a not overly heavily furnished 4 bed house with dbl garage contents.
A service where they wrap up your big stuff and do it all for you etc

We would only (hypothetically) be moving 7 miles south of where we are now, if that makes a difference

Cheers oh fonts of all knowledge

We paid about 1000 (have no pound sign - sorry) for a local move, 2 bed to 4 bed plus massive garage, including packing (small stuff as well as big stuff).

I knew DP was making up figures

hi piffle

how are you and dh getting on? what news?

We paid 900 for three-bed house, moving 100 miles. They did all the packing. This was in the south-east.

It was just under a year ago.

And although it was a 2 bed house, once everything was in the 4 bed, it didn't look underfurnished .

Is your DP loathe to move then - or is it you?

I didn't want an e there did I?

roght piff this is what you do

you choose who you want

you ge three quotes

if the one you wnat is £££ youring them and say

" ah its a pity as twat face removlas asid they coudl do it for ££ and i really wanted you use YOu as my mate had SUCH good expereince from you"

"ah mrs norkage , well what if we offer £"

" ah yes thankyou and goodbye"

Dp is deeply cautious
I am not
basic spec is this
we have nice house in town xxxxx
dd goes to school in village zzzzz 7 miles sth as she has minor SN and this school is perfect as it small and caring.

houses in this zzzzz village are £35k cheaper than we could sell ours for, they are rarely on the market either.

So would save me a 30 mile driving stint daily for starters, ds1 would get free school transport to his grammar school.
House in zzzz in 9 doors down from dd's school and the pre school (for ds2 when the time comes)
I want to go for it
DP is hesitating calculating it will cost us £20k to move

did you READ my ida or not?

20k?

When we moved, I reckon it cost us about £11k in cash. Most of that was stamp duty (on house over 250,000).

oh and said house to buy is better set out for our needs even though it is on major main road

yes Cod oh God yes I will do that too

quite selling for £250k buying for £215k or less...

So you will only be paying 1 per cent stamp duty, I think (unless it's gone up) - it's the buyer who pays.

Or do I mean 2 per cent?

tis 1%

Trying to remember what the elements of that 11k were - stamp duty, removals firm, fee for arranging mortgage, fee for estate agent on house you're selling, fees for solicitor and survey... I think that was pretty much it.

It will cost you well inside £10k to move - roughly, £2k for stamp duty, £2k for solicitors and surveyors, £1k for removal men, plus whatever for the estate agent if you sell that way. This is based on my experience 3 months ago.

thanks so much for this