Home Moving Guide
This home moving guide is designed to help you move to East Sussex, specifically to Battle, Bexhill, Hastings and St Leonards on Sea - it has details of local companies that you may need as well as resources for finding out more about the local area.
If you're thinking of moving somewhere in East Sussex, why not use our property finder service to find your next home?
Looking for property
- Ask your friends. They may know the area, the good the bad and the ugly.
- Read the local paper.
Getting to know the area
Various information sources to help you get to know the area.
- ABC Magazine - Free Family local information magazine for Sussex parents with babies & children aged up to 11.
- Adnews - Weekly local paper for Bexhill & Hastings.
- Bexhill-on-Sea Observer - Weekly paid for newspaper serving Bexhill on Sea, publication day - Friday.
- Campaign to Protect Rural England: Sussex Branch.
- Ebb & Flow Community Magazine - non profit, voluntary magazine (not recently updated).
- Friday-ad - Classified advertising paper for business and the public, 7 editions covering Sussex.
- Hastings and St Leonards Observer - local newspaper.
- Hastings Handbook - a popular free monthly community magazine featuring local people, places, events and history and provides effective and reasonably priced advertising for local businesses.
- Kent and Sussex Courier.
- Rye and Battle Observer - Local newspaper covering the towns of Rye and Battle and surrounding villages.
- Sussex Express - local newspaper.
- Sussex Folk Guide Website and Folk Diary - a guide to live folk music in and around Sussex.
- Sussex Jewish News (SJN) - a monthly subscriber publication of Jewish interest covering interfaith, communal, media, culture and items of general interest for all the Community whatever their affiliation.
- Sussex Life
- Estate Agents in Sussex.
Removals, Storage, Tradesmen, Mortgages Etc
Through our membership of the local BNI group, we have built up great relationships with a number of tried and trusted local businesses who are able to help with all aspects of your property move from storage and maintenance to conveyancy and finance.
Contact Liza now for help and advice on finding additional help with your move.
List of Home Moving Tasks
Four weeks before the move
- Take meter readings, organise disconnection of gas and electricity, and confirm new gas and electricity arrangements
- Tell phone company when your existing account should be closed, confirm connection of new line or whether you are adopting the seller's number
- Give notice to landlord if renting (check your notice period is not longer than four weeks first)
- Get removal quotes and check that the removal company are insured for damage caused to your contents during the move
- Check with your insurance company that your contents are covered during the move
- Gather packaging materials and boxes
- Redirect post
One week before the move
- Pay newspaper and milk bills
- Arrange care and transport for your pets on moving day
- Defrost the fridge and turn the freezer up to ensure contents remain frozen
- Send out change of address cards
- Confirm date and time with the removal company
- Start packing with clear labelling
- Don't forget the shed, garage, loft etc
Day before the move
- Finish packing, but keep an overnight bag
- Protect hall carpets with dust sheets
- Charge your mobile and check it has the numbers for estate agents and solicitors
- Keep emergency cash, credit cards, cheque book and mobile with you
Moving Day
- Pack the van
- Roll up the carpets
- Check you have left nothing behind
- Lock up
- Collect keys and move into your new home.