Who is this firm for?
Berkshire and Thames Valley households — Reading, Slough, Windsor, Maidenhead, Bracknell, Newbury, Wokingham, plus surrounding villages and parishes — moving to France, Italy, Spain, or Portugal. The customer base is the Thames Valley tech corridor: tech professionals on multinational relocations, banking and finance professionals taking European roles, families completing long-considered moves to European property, pre-retirement professionals still working partial-remote, and international families returning home. Mid-career, considered, professional.
Our corporate mobility office is handling the destination property and visa. Where does your work sit?
On the household side — survey, inventory, packing, customs filings, transit, destination delivery, dock-and-lift coordination at both ends. The corporate mobility office handles destination property, visa, often school fees and other relocation-package elements. We coordinate with them on timing; they do not run the household-move side, we do.
We need the move timed to a multinational start-date. Workable?
Most corporate Berkshire → Europe moves have a hard start-date. The survey conversation includes that anchor. We work backward from the start-date — load-out, customs clearance, destination delivery — to land the consignment in time. The written quote structures the timeline accordingly.
Berkshire sits near Heathrow — does that change anything?
Geographically yes — Berkshire is within easy reach of Heathrow, which matters for the customer side (you fly out to meet the consignment, or the corporate side has flights paid for as part of the relocation package). For the consignment itself we typically use the road-freight Eurotunnel or Dover-Calais route, not air freight, because household goods are weight-and-volume bulky and road freight is the practical move. The Heathrow proximity is a customer-side convenience, not a transit-time promise.
What does the written quote actually cover?
The route, the cubic metres surveyed, customs filings (UK ToR1 + destination-country declaration), packing scope, insurance summary with declared values for any itemised high-value pieces, contingency for property-completion slippage or customs query, depot-storage window, destination-side shuttle vehicle if needed, dock-and-lift booking coordination at both ends. Held in writing.