You’ve got to ask yourself some important questions when you’re moving house about what’s important to you. Bedrooms, transport links and naturally the size of the property are all vital considerations, but there’s one thing that’s higher on people’s wishlists than ever before.

It’s getting the gig, or as we better know it, fast broadband. A recent survey of nearly 300 estate agents, suggested that over a third of buyers want speeds of more than 300Mbps with nearly a quarter of buyers wanting 1Gbps. The same survey also claims that good internet speeds can actually add £5,000 to the sale price of a home.

When you move house, chances are you’ll have to pack Christmas decorations along with your furniture, television, clothes and toys. But there’s an art to making sure your baubles don’t smash or your tinsel doesn’t get ripped to shreds.

So how do you do it? Should you be using newspaper to wrap your decorations? What sort of boxes should you be using? We answer the all-important questions in our latest CBS Removals blog.

When the stamp duty holiday finished at the end of September, it sparked predictions as to what would happen next with the current housing market. Some experts believed a crash was upon us and while others believed the market would in fact continue to boom.

Looking at the recent reports released by Forbes and other online reports from B.A.R (British Association of Removers) it seems that the market has in fact held its course in terms of sales agreed, only seeing a minor drop compared to 2019 – dubbed as the last “normal market” to be compared to. 

Moving into a new home is one of the biggest and most stressful things we’ll ever do in our lives. There are no end of jobs that need doing including packing, unpacking and then sorting out all the admin. But once the hard work is over, it’s time to reward ourselves.

But can you hold celebration fireworks at your new house? In this handy blog, we explain what the law is and whether you can start your new life with a bang without facing any awkward legal issues.

People move home at all times of year and the diaries of removal companies are filling up with Halloween house moves this autumn. 

Granted that moving house now poses extra challenges. The clocks going back means there are fewer daylight hours to get jobs done and plummeting temperatures won’t help either.

It’s a well-known fact that birds find themselves flocking down south every winter, mostly due to the weather. And it would seem that many of us are doing exactly the same in 2021 and thousands of people will be in a new home of their own once the clocks have gone back.

A recent survey has revealed the top 10 most popular areas of the country that people are moving to based on an analysis of government data from June 2021. Factors such as net migration rates, age brackets of movers and number of transactions completed have all been taken into account.

If you get it right, there’s good money to be made in property. Get it wrong, and it could drain your life savings and create a mountain of loan-related debt. Which is why only a sensible businessperson should take the plunge with this property project.

So how does it work? How much does it cost? And what do you need to do to make it work and avoid a business calamity? Here is the lowdown on the record-breaking listing that you probably didn’t know about before today.

The stamp duty holiday undoubtedly had the desired effect. But the end of it along with the furlough scheme means we’re going to have to stand on our two feet from now on.

Experts have been measuring the impact of the stamp duty holiday and are looking into their crystal balls to see what might happen between now and the end of 2021.

The stamp duty holiday is over, so it’s as good a time as any to look back at the impact that the tax break has had. Over the last few months, we’ve tracked the progress and results in our blog including the ‘extension‘ and what buyers needed to do to benefit.

The objective was to open up the market to more buyers and get them on the property ladder. There’s probably a case to say that the housing market was really saved from a dire situation. But just how effective was the stamp duty holiday?

By Ellis Ranger

Moving house is something we will all go through at some point. Whether you’re 18 or 50, the eventuality will come where you are left to your own devices, with your sofa wedged into your front door frame and your heating is pumping out at 40 degrees and you just don’t know how to turn it down. 

As much as you might think yourself silly for not understanding what seem such menial tasks, like your family and friends before you, everyone has to tackle these rookie errors and emerge victorious.