How much does it cost to move abroad from the UK?
How much it will cost to move abroad: example prices for every route we run, and what decides yours.
How much does it cost to move abroad with MuveOne? From £882 to £7,113 at our prices of 13 October 2026, and more to Malta. The smallest size is £882 from London to Amsterdam; the largest £7,113 from London to Athens, customs clearance included. The example price for each of the 29 countries we serve from the UK is below. The price of moving your own home depends on three things. They are the two places, the size of your load and the dates we can collect. So this guide shows how each one moves the price and what a quote covers. It also names the one cost that no quote of ours can include.
How much does it cost to move abroad: example prices for 29 countries
Each row is what our quote tool priced on 13 October 2026 for one example route in that country. The collection was from 24 November 2026. The three columns are three of our five sizes. The smallest shares a van with other moves; the middle size sits between; the largest is a vehicle of your own. Every price is in pounds and includes the customs clearance at both borders where the route has them. These are example prices, not a quote, because we price yours for your own two addresses and your own dates. Each country links to its route page, so you can see every size.
Example prices in pounds for a removal from London to each country, by size, checked on 13 October 2026
How much to move to France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg or Ireland
| Country · example route | 5 m³ | 15 m³ | 30 m³ |
|---|---|---|---|
| France London to Paris | £922 | £1,203 | £2,191 |
| Belgium London to Brussels | £973 | £1,187 | £2,169 |
| Netherlands London to Amsterdam | £882 | £1,126 | £2,068 |
| Luxembourg London to Luxembourg | £1,080 | £1,366 | £2,393 |
| Ireland London to Dublin | £1,442 | £1,584 | £2,949 |
Prices to Germany, Austria, Switzerland or Liechtenstein
| Country · example route | 5 m³ | 15 m³ | 30 m³ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany London to Berlin | £1,166 | £1,641 | £3,076 |
| Austria London to Vienna | £1,602 | £2,241 | £4,223 |
| Switzerland London to Zurich | £1,424 | £1,689 | £3,103 |
| Liechtenstein London to Vaduz | £1,299 | £1,761 | £3,262 |
How much does it cost to move to Spain from the UK, or to Portugal, Italy or Malta
The Nordics: Denmark, Sweden, Norway or Finland
Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary or the Baltic states
| Country · example route | 5 m³ | 15 m³ | 30 m³ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland London to Warsaw | £1,428 | £1,999 | £3,817 |
| Czechia London to Prague | £1,679 | £2,187 | £4,149 |
| Slovakia London to Bratislava | £1,495 | £2,091 | £3,992 |
| Hungary London to Budapest | £1,639 | £2,263 | £4,230 |
| Estonia London to Tallinn | £1,552 | £2,437 | £4,614 |
| Latvia London to Riga | £2,274 | £3,047 | £5,834 |
| Lithuania London to Vilnius | £2,185 | £2,913 | £5,566 |
Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria or Greece
Example prices in pounds, checked on 13 October 2026 for a collection from 24 November 2026, customs clearance included. Your quote prices your own two addresses, size and dates.
The cost that is not in our price: import VAT and duty
Last year I quoted a customer who was bringing a few things home to the UK from a holiday home she was selling in Spain. She told me early on that she lived in the UK and was not changing where she lived. I did not see what that meant until weeks later, after I had spoken to our customs agent: her move did not qualify for relief, and she would pay VAT on her belongings and on the transport. She told me that made us more expensive, and that I had not said so before. She was right on the second point. The largest new cost in her move was not our price, and she heard about it from me late.
Relief from import VAT and duty is for people moving their home. The UK's transfer of residence relief does not cover goods from a second or holiday home. Without relief, customs charges VAT at the standard rate, 20% in the UK. The base is the total value of the goods plus shipping, insurance and any duty owed. You pay that to the customs authority, not to us. No quote can include it, because it depends on what your things are worth. For a move abroad from a holiday home, that is the one cost to ask about first.
What has changed is when you find out. Our quote now asks what kind of move yours is before it gives a price. If customs will charge VAT and duty on top, the quote says so beside the price. It also says that you pay it to the customs authority, not to us. Our customs page explains relief on your route. If you are not sure your move qualifies, ask me before you book, not after.
What decides how much it will cost to move abroad
Three things decide how much it will cost to move abroad: where, what size, and when. The first is where. We price the road journey between the two places you name, ferry or tunnel included. So a longer journey costs more, and the far end counts as much as the near one. Your quote is for those two places. If your address turns out to be somewhere else, we price it again. We would rather do that than hold you to a figure worked out for a different job.
The second is size. You book a size, a measured block of the vehicle. Two things set the size you need. One is how much room your things take; the other is how much they weigh against your route's weight limit. Our guide on why weight decides what fits explains the second, which is the one people miss.
The third is when. We price your quote for the collection window on it. Choose another window and we price every size again for it. That can bring the price down as well as up, and you see the new figures before you pay anything. Our two smallest sizes share a van. So our guide to sharing a van says when being flexible on dates is worth it.
What the cost of a move abroad covers, and what it does not
A customer moving from Oxfordshire to Lecce last autumn asked us the question I would ask first: so you'll do all the paperwork? Yes, and the cost of it is in the price. Your quote includes both customs steps on every route that crosses a border. That is the export declaration in the UK and the import clearance at the other end. The transport door to door is in the price as well.
What it does not include is anything you ask us to add: packing, extra hands for loading, storage. We price each on your job once we know your inventory. Your quote names any you asked for, so nothing stays implied.
Another customer, moving to Barcelona, asked me what would be charged at the far end. The honest answer is on our pricing page. It lists what is in the price and what we arrange separately. It also names the few charges we disclose up front rather than leave for the day. Booking locks the quoted price, and it holds across every size we offer.
What to check before you book, so the cost of your move abroad holds
Before you pay a deposit, check these.
- Find your country in the table, then get a quote for your own two addresses and dates.
- Check the size against your inventory and your route's weight limit, not just the number of boxes.
- Check that the quote says what kind of move yours is. Check whether VAT and duty will be due at the border.
- Check what the price covers: transport, customs clearance, and any extra you asked us to add.
- If your dates can move, ask what another window costs before you pay anything.
- Read the charges we disclose up front on our pricing page.
- Then send me your quote, and I'll go through it with you line by line.