A consumer group and a removals firm claims to have identified the busiest day of the year for house moves - and it’s coming soon.
The HomeOwners Alliance and the reallymoving firm says Friday August 30 will see four times more households than average moving.
They claim that an analysis of around 650,000 removal quotes show that August has been the most popular month to move for the last 12 years, with January and February the least popular and some 29% of people move on Fridays.
According to the HomeOwners Alliance there are some 1.9m moves a year in the UK, averaging over 5,000 a day. It calculates that on August 30, however, there will be over 20,000 moves in just one day.
The chief executive of the HomeOwners Alliance, Paula Higgins, says: “We've been tracking this trend for over 12 years and were a little surprised to find that this year, we think homeowners are still favouring the end of August weekend to move, despite it not being a Bank Holiday this year.
“Conveyancers will be super busy so home movers need to make sure they understand the process and what happens on the day of completion. Ensure everyone up and down the chain aims to complete and have keys released by 1pm so you have enough time to get moved.”
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I love the last part, 1pm...
Here's a post we placed on Facebook yesterday;
Key release.
In what world is it acceptable that Conveyancers thoroughly poop on their clients and the moving industry, day in, day out. For decades now.
We make the effort to ensure properties are clear by 1pm. Only then to have your continued incompetence, and general sociopathy thoroughly poop on your clients and our sector.
Movers throughout England, and Wales are reaching breaking point, you only have to look at the chatter to know it. Every other element of what we do is enjoyable, professional and well executed.
It really isn't hard to move funds. Conveyancers wonder why they're viewed with the disrespect and general condemnation that they are.
When the moving day service you provide is no better now than back before we had PC's and Windows95, what do you expect? You've become the laughing stock of the housing market precisely because your sector is broadly incompetent.
Good people just want to move home well, efficiently and happily. We can ensure 4-6 tonnes is removed in four hours, packed well, and safely taken to the new home. Only then to sit for hours....because the intellectually, sub-deficient bottom tier of the legal pyramid can't perform the simple task of adhering to the terms of a contract they themselves write.
Your clients. For them their moving day is what it's all about. Yet this continual inability to simply get them their new home keys for the time that is correct is destroying the enjoyment. Clients end up stressed, anxious and weary after waiting hours, homeless. Wondering if they'll even get to move in that day.
For movers up and down the land you're making it a misery.
21st century conveyancing, it's worse than it's ever been. Worse than 20th century conveyancing, and we suspect worse than 19th century conveyancing.
Yet, each other area from mortgages, Surveyors, Estate Agents, and Movers have made continual improvements.
Conveyancing,
Making home moving a misery, for millions.
Well done.
What a thoughtful and professional post.
Request put into bank to move money. Bank moves it at its pace.
Except that isn't 'it' is it.
We've got numerous examples of funds having landed then it taking literally hours before they're acknowledged.
Last week we had a straight purchase, funds (in full) deposited the day before.
Clients solicitor didn't send the funds until @3pm. Poor customer was very distraught. Then they're advised receiving solicitor 'in a meeting'. Uncontactable. They finally got the keys at 16:45.
How is this acceptable. They'd got up ridiculously early to undertake a 7hr drive to Scotland to be there for 1pm.
We've got literally hundreds of documented instances of this gross dereliction of duty.
Our entire side of the sector knows that the funds transfer is near instant. It's the humans within the firms that take hours to act on it.
When there are daily occurrences of the first party in a chain not sending funds until lunchtime. Across multiple firms. Not just one or two.
When movers up and down the UK and their clients know full well what's failing to happen.
And then, when movers go seek advice from the BOE on this, and get told by the BOE how long it really takes ....
Then, on the day, (repeatedly) when you hear the lies that get told to customers.
It has to change.
And, I stand by what is written above.
The individuals who administer, write and are supposed to enforce the contract they themselves create. It isn't just hypocrisy.
That, for years Conveyancers seem incapable of acknowledging the distress they cause.
Always blaming 'the banks'. It's getting thin. When movers talk to multiple parties in the same chain and get to hear the misinformation and lies on the day. It's tiresome.
And grossly unfair.
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