Why you're moving
The fixed term ending
Who decides You and the calendar
The one rental move you can genuinely plan, because the date has been sitting in the agreement since you signed it.
What this does to the move
You know the date and you have known it for a long time, which puts this closer to an owner-occupier move than any other rental event. Use that: the booking, the packing and the check-out inventory can all be arranged without pressure.
The complication is the overlap. Most fixed terms end on a day, and most new tenancies start on a day, and those two are frequently the same day — which means you are out and in on the same date with a check-out inspection in between.
Where the dates do not overlap at all, there is a gap, and the load has to be somewhere. That is worth establishing when you book rather than discovering when you are packed.
What we do about it
A date held as soon as you know it, even provisionally
The load sequenced so the check-out inspection happens on an empty, clean property
Storage across a gap between tenancies where the dates do not meet
Photographs of the property condition as we leave it, sent to you
Watch for
Assuming the agent will be flexible about the check-out. They usually are not, because the next tenancy starts behind yours.
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Moving because of the fixed term ending?
Whether the term is ending, the break clause is going in, the landlord is selling or it is one room out of a shared house — and tell us your shift pattern. We will work round it.