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The newspapers tell us today that estate agents in London are selling one property per fortnight. I’m not sure of the ratio of removal companies to estate agents but you don’t need to be an economist to know that statistics like this spell trouble.
Fortunately our business isn’t solely reliant on the domestic housing market and [...]
We are proud to launch our new and improved Amber Moves logo. The website has been updated, new business cards have arrived and slowly but surely we will roll it out on our vans, uniforms and stationery.
In these difficult times, you have to constantly evolve and update to stay ahead of the game. We were [...]
Amber Moves are riding out the credit crunch and the bulk of the work we have been doing is office removals. This is due to a combination of factors - companies downsizing, regular churning work or companies moving to new premises because of rent rises.
Regardless of the credit crunch the world will continue to turn [...]
As the news gets gloomier and signs are that there is still worse to come, the question on everyone’s lips is where has all the money gone?
One belief is that it was never there in the first place. Everyone lived on credit and counted the equity in their property as part of their wealth and [...]
Today we looked at our Google Analytics and were delighted to see an increase of visitors to our site via Google. We always make a point of asking our customers how they found us and more and more the answer is “I googled”. The verb “google” was first added to the Oxford English Dictionary on [...]
As we are all being accused of living champagne lifestyles on Babycham budgets, we have to look at our spending and cut back on life’s little luxuries. Is hiring a removal company to move you a luxury or a necessity?
It really depends on the size of the property you have to move and your lifestyle. [...]
It seems that not a day goes by without another report of a company going bust, unemployment rising and general bad news on the economy.
Everyone booking a holiday must now be thinking - what if I book and the airline or holiday company goes out of business? The same should apply to your removal and [...]
We are delighted to launch our “Cruise and Move” promotion in association with the National Guild of Removers and Storers and Brittany Ferries.
In essence, anyone booking a removal with Amber Moves can take advantage of this offer and sail to France or Spain for just £19.50 per person.
There are three mini-breaks to choose from, namely:
Cruise [...]
Estate agents are closing at a rate of 150 a month, according to the business-monitor company Debtwire. Some 2,000 have shut in the past year, shrinking the number of agencies in the UK to 12,000. Unfortunately there are no similar records for removal companies as so many small firms sprung up in the [...]
The well known restaurant critic who rang the day after his move to say he couldn’t find his two valuable paintings. The next call was to say he had found them - they were hanging on the wall!
The neighbour’s cat who travelled in the removal van to the new house and had to be transported [...]
A very gloomy title for a blog but apparantly the only 3 reasons why anyone should be moving according to an estate agent quoted in the Sunday Times.
These are also probably the three most stressful life experiences so couple it with moving house and you may have meltdown.
As a removals company we can’t help tackle [...]
In the Bricks and Mortar supplement of The Times (22/08/2008) there is an interesting article on Accidental Landlords. Basically, many people are renting out their properties either because they can’t sell or don’t want to sell at today’s reduced house prices.
From a removals point of view this is all good. We have always said, regardless [...]
Recently we were employed by a leading estate agency on behalf of one of their landlords to carry out a very special removal job in Knightsbridge. The property yielded a weekly rent of £5000 and had some water damage. In order to carry out the repairs, the entire apartment needed to be packed up and [...]
This is the question that is on everyone’s lips at the moment. Now there is talk of the Chancellor removing stamp duty so anyone considering buying or selling is going to sit tight and wait and see, bringing the housing market to even more of a halt, if that is at all possible in this [...]
We are proud to announce that we have joined the Hotel Chocolat affiliate programme. The company’s banners are proudly displayed on our website, encouraging our customers to “soothe their move” with chocolate!
Having been a member of Hotel Chocolat’s tasting club for a number of years, I am so pleased for Amber Moves to be associated [...]
Moving home in London is never easy but there is almost always one certainty - that you will get a parking ticket. Often these are issued even when the van in question has been given dispensation to park. As everyone knows it is often a case of the traffic warden trying to reach his quota [...]
Too often what we read in the financial pages is reporting of a trend that we as a business felt three months previously. An example is September/October last year - the phones literally stopped ringing round about the time of the Northern Rock fiasco. It was a good while later that reports started filtering through [...]
Another busy week in the moving world. To give you an idea of the services we offer, here is an extract from our removals diary….
Monday
Collection and recycling of old office furniture from an accountancy firm in the West End
Assistance with export wrapping and loading up a container for shipping in Swiss Cottage
Survey a past customer [...]
At Amber Moves we find ourselves in the position where we are currently short staffed. As unemployment rises, we wonder why this is so?
The success of our business rides on the quality of the removal men we employ. Personally I only ever employ guys I would feel happy to have in my own home. We [...]
Like any other removal company, we have been affected by the static housing market and the credit crunch. Fortunately we can still rely on all our regular clients, repeat business and recommendations and have had a busy June and July - long may it continue and thank you to all our removal customers.
Taking into account [...]
Online swap shop booms as middle class feels squeeze - Sunday Times 06.07.08
Freecycle a website that allows members to exchange unwanted products, has doubled to more than 1m in the last year. Amber Moves has been promoting Freecycle on their website under the section Amber goes Green.
With every household move, especially in London, we encourage [...]
Families Cash Fears worst for 26 years - Consumer gloom threatens economy further.
The Times - Monday 30 June 2008.
The Credit crunch and our shrinking wallets are not far from our minds and today the Times leads with this headline. For those consumers who are moving house, it is important to carefully consider choosing a removal [...]
Amber Moves has joined the British Institute of Facilities Management. There is more to moving than simply transporting goods from A - B and by joining this prestigious organisation Amber Moves is making a further commitment to establishing itself as a key supplier to facilities managers in the London area.
Over the past years we have [...]