MovePlanMoving house, explained properly
Free guides to every part of a UK house move — written to be genuinely useful on their own, whether or not you ever buy anything from us.
Plan the move
What to do, in what order, and what it's going to cost.
Moving house timeline: week by week
Eight weeks is enough if the right things happen in the right order. Here's the sequence, and the three tasks whose lead times decide everything else.
What moving house actually costs
The removal van is rarely the biggest number. Here’s the full list, including the ones that only appear once it’s too late to plan for them.
End of tenancy checklist
Deposit disputes are won on evidence, not on how clean the oven is. Here’s what to do, and what to photograph.
Tell everyone
The forty-odd organisations, which ones carry a legal duty, and how to get through them quickly.
Who to notify when you move house
There are about forty of them, three carry a legal duty, and one carries a £1,000 fine. Here they are in the order they actually need doing.
Change of address checklist
Most checklists are an alphabetical list of forty organisations, which tells you nothing about what to do first. This one is ordered by when it actually matters.
Council tax when you move house
Two councils, two separate jobs, and a common trap where you end up paying both at once. Here's how it actually works.
DVLA change of address
It's two updates, not one, and that's the whole reason this catches people out. Both are required by law and both are free.
Broadband when moving house
This has the longest lead time of anything in a move and the least visible deadline. It is the task most likely to make your first fortnight miserable.
Moving with others
The parts of a move that change completely when it isn't just you.
Or have it all dated from your move
Every task above, dated from your actual move date, plus six address-change letters already filled in. £14.99, once.
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