House clearance from SW England to the NE

[Maebey]

Long story short, we moved temporarily to the ne of england during one of the lockdown lifts and have been renting the house we own in the sw to a family member. The house in sw therefore still contains a lot of our personal belongings and furniture.

We didn't expect to love it in the ne so much. We now want to sell the place in the sw and buy up here.

I'm guessing that to sell, we would first need to clear the place in the south of all our stuff.

We both now work in the ne and have to be in the office some days a week. Neither of us drive.

Is there a service where people will clear your home for you (furniture, stuff in cupboards, everything), and bring it in a van to you on the other side of the country in one piece?

How do people manage things like this? It's something neither of us have ever done before. I feel like I'm also googling all the wrong things because I'm just coming up with dead ends.

I think a normal household remover like pickfords would do that.

A decent removal firm who offer a packing service should do this? Go for a well regarded firm I would think in the sw.

Two posts about exactly the same thing?

Not sure whereabouts in the NE you are, but Ian Hornsby of We Haul in Alnwick is fantastic. I'm sure he'd sort you a good price, I've used him twice now, excellent.

We moved from Wiltshire to County Durham and just used standard removers (probably Pickfords) who did all the packing for us. But you'll need someone there to supervise, e.g. last time we moved house the removers forgot about the garden shed even though it was suppose to be included. Can't you take a couple of days annual leave to go down and supervise?