Rightsizing & Downsizing Support in Dublin
Moving from a family home can bring difficult decisions and a long list of practical tasks. Seamless Moves helps you and your family plan the transition, decide what to keep, and coordinate the details with care.
How We Help
Rightsizing is moving to a home that better supports your lifestyle, comfort, independence and changing needs, whether that is a smaller home, assisted living or a nursing home.
- Review your belongings with you and protect keepsakes
- Find good homes for what you no longer need, through sale or donation
- Collate the paperwork for the sale and liaise with your solicitor and estate agent
- Plan the move and choose what comes to your new home
- Transfer utilities and cancel services linked to the family home
- Support you until you are comfortably settled
case study
Our clients contacted us when they had found a beautiful apartment to rightsize to in a new development but didn’t know how they were going to be able to sell the family home quickly enough to enable them to purchase the apartment, which was almost ready for sale.
Our Team Got to Work Immediately
We met them at their home and were able to formulate a four-category plan that we felt would work.
Dealing with Professionals
- We arranged for the estate agent to visit the home to discuss a strategy, make a price recommendation and give advice for the best way to present the house for sale.
- We spoke with the developer and agreed to purchase the apartment, subject to a slightly longer than standard closing period.
- We instructed a solicitor to carry out the conveyancing work.
- We instructed an architect to provide a boundary map.
- We instructed and supervised the removal company on the day of the move.
Our clients made all the decisions but we dealt with all the day-to-day issues.
Organised Distribution of All House Contents
- We arranged for an auctioneer to come to the house and give an up-to-date valuation on the more valuable pieces of furniture and paintings.
- We took photos of all the furniture and paintings in the home, and noted all measurements.
- Using the floor plan for the new apartment, we agreed with the client which contents would be transferred to the new apartment.
- Using the photos, we prepared and agreed which items would be brought to the apartment, donated to family members, sold, donated to charity and recycled. We then circulated it to all vested parties.
- Using our contacts, we established which auction houses would take which items for sale and which charity shops would take which residual items.
- Our team collected everything that needed to be brought to the recycling centre, auction houses or charity shops.
Our clients were delighted that a large portion of their surplus possessions had found a new home.
Preparing the Family Home for Sale
- The family home had been well maintained but was dated and needed some “decluttering”.
- Our team arrived with all the necessary boxes, bags and packaging and took away a number of items that were creating a clutter directly to a local charity shop.
- We carefully packaged up all personal items, including many framed pictures, and left them in boxes in the attic.
- We arranged for a painter / handyman to come into the house over a couple of days to carry out a few touch ups.
- We instructed a gardener to tidy up the garden and plant some flowers to brighten it up.
- We instructed a cleaner to give the house a deep clean, including the windows.
After this process, the house gave a very good first impression to potential new buyers.
Dealing with Paperwork
- We arranged for all the paperwork to get to the estate agent, including the BER certificate.
- We arranged for all the paperwork to get to the solicitor, including title documents, marriage certificate and tax clearances.
- We worked with the client in establishing what paperwork needed to be kept and what could be shredded. We arranged for a shredding company to come to the house and do this on-site.
- We notified all the utilities of the proposed transfers or cancellations, including electricity, gas, broadband and refuse collection.
- We notified all their contacts of the proposed change of address and redirected the post on closing day.
The entire process took 13 weeks. We had drawn up a schedule with the clients and time was allocated every week to the move. The rest of the time they could relax, knowing that we were dealing with any issues that arose and kept the process moving forward. The process happened seamlessly for them.
With our services tailored to meet individual requirements, our Dublin based team will take care of all the details, while you make all the decisions. To start a conversation about how we can help you rightsize, please reach out to us using our contact page here.
Let’s Talk About How We Can Help
You don’t need to have everything worked out before getting in touch.