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Cost of moving house.

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  • Friend just paid £1700 solicitors £650 searches and about £1000 for removals ( not a long distance)
    plus any applicable stamp duty 
  • youth_leader
    youth_leader Posts: 2,746 Forumite
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    I've just remembered other prep you might like to do before moving - get your boiler serviced, and keep the paperwork to show viewers. If you have chimneys, get them swept. 

    Look around at the items you will be leaving, or cost them if you want to charge the buyer.  Budget to buy when you move.

    Another expense I didn't have to fund as my building was listed, was the EPC.  If you have spotlights do put LED bulbs in if you can.  Unfortunately I had to pay for all the 17 transformers here to be changed for LED's to work.
    £216 saved 24 October 2014
  • Thanks for all the replies. 
    My home has sold for £190,000, a four bedroom Terraced with loft conversion. We now have the task of finding a home to move into. The house sold over a month ago and the people who have bought it are desperate to move in. 
    We have seen a property further down the Street, it's a two bed Dorma £230,000 which we have forty grand to put towards it.
    I have looked up and seems Stamp duty is only on properties over 250000 which seems we have got away with that one. We are viewing this property on Tuesday 8th Oct and if it's to our liking we'll have it. 
    Kind regards Jeff. 
  • eurobabe
    eurobabe Posts: 103 Forumite
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    Try this site has a fair bit on there to help 
    https://www.movingcostscalculator.co.uk/calculator/
    I factored in £30k for a small 3 bed to a larger 3 bed and it came in under £20k.Doing the move ourselves.paid for a more expensive solicitor and so far they've been great compared to a cheaper one I used in the past.
  • user1977
    user1977 Posts: 16,713 Forumite
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    Always remember
    dormer:          dorma: 
  • Bigphil1474
    Bigphil1474 Posts: 3,058 Forumite
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    OP, we bought a house for £325k, all in we paid about £10k (including stamp duty of about £4k). Your new house at £230k is stamp duty free, for now -  the level at which you pay is changing from the start of April 2025 and would add a couple of thousand pounds to your purchase.  You're still looking at about £6k in costs. Good luck.
  • youth_leader
    youth_leader Posts: 2,746 Forumite
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    Congratulations on already selling! 

    Do have a look at Phil Spencer's site Moveiq, he has some very clear 'viewing tips'.  When I bought this place during Covid the single older woman of the same age as me, was very nervous and sweating under her mask, I thought it was her fear of Covid and I viewed - and offered - the same day. 

    Now I know it was her fear I'd ask about the fully carpeted floors.  The floors didn't reveal their wood worm/dry and wet rot/mould until I'd been here six months.  Any indication of woodworm or damp do pay for a damp/timber survey.  She did know but I missed the hint to ask more questions  ... on the the telephone she referred to overwatering a plant and damaging the carpet.  The room was very dark, no-one would have a plant there.  I will never forgive her, when my beloved sheltie died,  he had a fungus in his nose.  He'd been sleeping on the mouldy carpets for months.
    £216 saved 24 October 2014
  • Had a final bill from estate agents for selling our property for £180,000, the bill comes to £2300 and that includes a £500 stamp duty fee? I thought there were no Stamp duty fees on properties under £250,000. I haven't questioned this as yet because I will not understand their jargon. 

  • user1977
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    edited 10 October 2024 at 9:32AM
    You still need to submit an SDLT return even if no tax due, so presumably that's the solicitors' fee for drafting and submitting that on your behalf? If you don't understand the jargon, phone them! The whole point is they're advising you what's going on.
  • horsewithnoname
    horsewithnoname Posts: 667 Forumite
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    edited 10 October 2024 at 9:49AM
    Had a final bill from estate agents for selling our property for £180,000, the bill comes to £2300 and that includes a £500 stamp duty fee? I thought there were no Stamp duty fees on properties under £250,000. I haven't questioned this as yet because I will not understand their jargon. 

    A friend who just bought a house (nothing to sell) was charged £150 as a land reg fee, though there was no stamp tax involved. Assume it’s for registration of the change of ownership etc
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