Moving house may be one of the most stressful things you can do in life.
You’ve found a new place, completed after what seems to be forever, but now you have to pack up all your things and transport them to your new house. A seemingly impossible task that becomes even more impossible the harder you try.
Your house becomes a Kafkaesque nightmare, with endless new doors behind which are storage spaces you’d forgotten you even had. You find you have so much stuff that one new house just clearly won’t be enough, you’re going to need a second.
Anyway, the esteemed Prudence Ivey gives us her expert guide to making this a lot less painful. It should help reduce stress-related injuries by many per cent.
Also this week, we have a look at the new London Living Rent scheme, which is helping London renters get onto the ladder in the first place. As Charlotte Duck’s report shows, there are ways and means to carve out a bit of real estate for yourself without needing Elon Musk as a parent.
Both stories show a property market that is at last coming back to life, with actual buying and selling now taking place across the capital and mortgages showing signs of being achievable at reasonable rates that don’t make you cry.
Are things looking up? Well, yes, just make sure you start the packing six months in advance of any move, to allow yourself time for at least two nervous breakdowns.
