sending money from UK current acct to Dutch current acct.

owlet

Hi all,

My daughter has just moved back to the Uk from the Netherlands.
She is keeping her job but has a new UK contract.
She has a nationwide flex account which is her main UK acct.

She will need to transfer around £800 a month to her Dutch acct to cover her mortgage and utilities until her house sells.
She says that Nationwide charge £20 to transfer.

Is there a cheaper way for her to do this please?

agrinnall

Yes.

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/banking/foreign-currency-exchange

grumbler

https://www.fxcompared.com/money-transfer/UK-Netherlands?amount=800&bType=1&aDir=0&ref=filter
http://www.mycurrencytransfer.com/money-transfer-to-Netherlands/800-GBP

owlet

Thanks very much agrinall & grumbler. Some reading to do! Certainly much cheaper.

Any recommendations from anybody?

Edit: as in personal recommendations from companies you have used.

grumbler

Transferwise and CurrencyFair are very popular here.

colsten

owlet wrote: »

Any recommendations from anybody?

You already got links for a huge number of sites with different rates. Did you look at any of them? What more do you want in order to decide how to best transfer £800?

owlet

colsten wrote: »

You already got links for a huge number of sites with different rates. Did you look at any of them? What more do you want in order to decide how to best transfer £800?

I have indeed looked at them & I'm very grateful . I was just asking if anyone had recommendations - meaning ones that people have actually used.
Maybe I didn't phrase that right. No need to get shirty.

colsten

owlet wrote: »

I have indeed looked at them & I'm very grateful . I was just asking if anyone had recommendations - meaning ones that people have actually used.
Maybe I didn't phrase that right. No need to get shirty.

If you are asking whether anyone actually used any of the currency transfer services: I have., and I would use the same service (Transferwise) again. I'll leave it to you to figure out alternatives......but I would suggest it is terribly easy to pick a service to transfer £800 from a dutch to UK account, at an advantageous cost.