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Who to Notify When Moving House: A Checklist

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Moving house is exciting, but it can also be hectic. Amidst the chaos of packing, organising, and ensuring that everything is in order, it can be easy to forget some vital steps.

When you finalise everything with your estate agent and prepare to move to a new address, it’s important to update your address with healthcare providers, postal services, and utility companies, to name a few.

If you’re about to embark on the journey of moving homes, continue reading to find out more about who you’ll need to notify of your new address.

Top Tips to Consider When You Get a New Address

There are some vital tips to remember when you move into a new house. Making an address checklist offers an easy way to ensure that you don’t forget anything during your move.

Creating a comprehensive list of any important organisations or websites that require your new address can be most helpful. Although estate agents are there to help finalise the sale of your new home and ensure any important documents are complete, they won’t be there to tell you who you’ll need to reach out to.

Subscription services and shopping websites are just two examples of commonly forgotten accounts that’ll need to know your new address. By incorporating efficient planning and proper organisation, you can ensure a smooth transition into your new home while making sure any relevant companies are aware of your new move.

Although family members are probably aware of your recent move, it’s helpful to remind those close to you of your new address. This helps loved ones send mail and packages to your property with ease without having to reconfirm where you now live.

Moving House Checklist

Creating a home checklist offers many advantages, and although notifying subscription services and shopping sites of a change of address is beneficial, it’s not as important as making sure postal services, banks, and your employer are notified.

From the day you move in, you’ll need to have everything sent to your new property. Updating your contact details prevents issues and missed payments from occurring. If anything gets sent to your old address, you’ll have to attempt to retrieve your goods by speaking with the new owners. Let’s take a look at some of the most important places that you’ll need to reach out to.

Postal Service

The first step to take while moving properties is to confirm with your local postal service that you’ve moved house. This will prevent them from sending mail to the wrong address while ensuring they can redirect post promptly.

You can update your new mailing address online or by visiting a nearby postal office. Once you’ve done this, postal subscriptions or deliveries from couriers such as Royal Mail can deliver your post to the correct address.

Utility Companies

As you finalise moving to your new home, you’ll need to reach out to your utility suppliers, who supply electricity, internet, gas, and phone services.

By contacting utility providers, you can let them know your moving date and new address. Once they’re made aware of the location of your new humble abode, arrange for your services to be disconnected at your old address and set up at your new one.

The Bank

It’s essential to ensure that financial institutions are notified of your recent move. You’ll need to notify your credit card providers that you now reside at a different address.

Contacting your bank means that any important statements, updates, and new cards can be delivered to your address safely. You’ll also need to update a new billing address for any automatic payments that you might have set up.

Your Employer

Letting your current employer know about your new address details is vital. This is necessary for tax purposes, payroll, and any other work-related communications. Keeping your workplace in the loop about your move allows your employer to update your contact details on file.

Educational Institutions

If you have children, you must inform their current school about your move. Like letting your employer know, notifying your children’s school means they can update their information. Any post arriving from the school will be able to be delivered to your address successfully.

Government Agencies

If you own a vehicle and drive, your driving licence will need to be updated as soon as possible. Additionally, you’ll need to tell your car insurance provider about the move to your current property, as well as other important government bodies, like HMRC.

Although these are some of the main places that need to be notified of your move, the list continues. This is why making a checklist is most important.

It can be helpful to segregate your list into categories, compiling any home-related agencies that need reaching out to, as well as banks that you and your family members are with, and so on. This approach facilitates the organisation and prioritisation of notifications.

Are You Yet to Find Your New Dream Home?

Although it’s helpful to know who to notify when you get a new address, you might not have found your dream property to move into yet. If you’re a first-time buyer looking for a rental property on the Wirral or surrounding areas, you’ll be glad to know that we can help.

Here at Peninsular Property, we help our clients find a suitable home to reside in while offering professional management services to landlords in several locations.

From providing you with an extensive portfolio of properties to consider, to assisting you throughout your application, our dedicated and trustworthy team remain on hand to make the process of finding your dream property as streamlined as possible.

You can rest assured knowing that we’re among the best-performing letting and property management agents in Merseyside, helping tenants find their dream homes. We offer peace of mind to clients and register their deposits with the trusted Tenants Deposit Scheme (DPS).

If this is your first time searching for a new rental property to reside in, we understand that you might have some questions. To find out more about our services, we encourage you to contact us today. Our friendly team are more than happy to assist you with any questions or concerns.

Joe Martin-Bindley

Joe is the founder of Peninsular Property and has worked in the industry since 2005. Joe has negotiated on over 9 million pounds worth of property purchases and managed over 1000 properties for clients all over the world. Joe is a landlord himself with a varied property portfolio so is ideally placed to advise clients on their property purchases and investments.

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