We move households from the United Kingdom to Italy and nowhere else. Rome, Milan, Florence, a farmhouse in the Val d'Orcia or a flat above a Venetian canal — one corridor, driven end to end, with the paperwork done before you travel.
The legs
The process
One corridor, five stages, and no part of it improvised. This is what happens between the first phone call and the last box being carried into a room in Italy.
We look at what is going, how it comes out of the UK property, and — just as importantly — how it gets into the Italian one. A video walk-round covers most jobs. What comes out of it is a written scope and an inventory, not an estimate.
Packing for an international road move is a different standard from a local one. Everything is wrapped for the distance, furniture is blanketed and corner-protected, glass and pictures go into purpose-made cases, and every item is numbered against the inventory as it goes on.
A full house usually takes a dedicated vehicle that leaves when you are ready. A flat, a part-furnished property or a second home is often better as a part load sharing the route with other Italy-bound moves — less cost, less flexibility on dates. We price both.
Since Brexit a household move into Italy is a customs import. We prepare the declaration and lodge it, and we tell you exactly which personal documents to obtain. Transfer of Residence relief is the mechanism that keeps duty off your own used belongings — it depends on the paperwork being right.
Down to the Channel, across, through France, and into Italy by whichever Alpine crossing suits the destination and the season. At the other end we deliver into the property, position the furniture, reassemble what we dismantled and take the packaging away.
Which crossing a load uses depends on where in Italy it is going and what the weather is doing. Every winter booking has the coast route planned as a fallback.
Customs
Your belongings are now an import when they enter Italy. That means a declaration, a detailed inventory, your codice fiscale, and evidence that you are transferring your residence rather than bringing goods in to sell.
Done correctly, Transfer of Residence relief means no duty on your own used household goods. Done loosely — a vague inventory, a missing document — it means questions at a border with your furniture on the wrong side of it.
We prepare and lodge the declaration. We do not quote clearance times, because that decision belongs to the authorities rather than to us.
Customs and ToR reliefDestinations
Lazio
Historic-centre access, and everything outside it
Lombardy
The business move, done on a date that cannot slip
Tuscany
A small medieval centre and a large permit problem
the Veneto
The only Italian move that ends on a boat
Campania
Dense, vertical, and entirely workable with local knowledge
Piedmont
The first Italian city off the mountain, and the easiest to deliver into
Emilia-Romagna
Porticoes, a strict centre, and Italy's crossroads
central Italy
Where the last mile is a track, not a street
Lombardy
A lake road with no passing places and a lot of steps
Campania
The SS163, and the stairs at the end of it
southern Italy
The long haul south, and trulli with doorways to match
the south
The whole peninsula, then a ferry
the Tyrrhenian
A long sailing, and a booking that has to be made early
Somewhere not on the list? We cover the whole country — these are simply the destinations we are asked about often enough to write properly about. Describe where you are going and we will tell you what the last leg involves.
Plain dealing
No percentages, no counts of moves completed, no years in business. Those are easy to type and impossible for you to check, and a firm asking to drive your belongings across a continent should start by not printing things it cannot stand behind.
When there are genuine reviews from people we have actually moved to Italy, they will appear here with somewhere you can go and read them. Until then, nothing.
A UK to Italy move quoted from a web form is a number that gets revised later, usually when you have committed and cannot easily refuse. We survey, then we quote, and the written figure is the figure.
More on the FAQ page — the crossings, the inventory, storage, antiques and what cannot travel.
No, and that is deliberate. This is a single-corridor firm: households from the United Kingdom to Italy. Knowing one route properly — the crossings, the Italian customs process, what a Florence permit takes, which villages need a shuttle — is worth more to you than a list of twenty countries. If you are moving to France, our sister site france-removals.co.uk covers that corridor.
A full house usually takes a dedicated vehicle that leaves when you are ready and drives straight there. A flat, a part-furnished property or a second home is often better as a part load sharing the route with other Italy-bound moves: less cost, less flexibility on dates. We price both so the trade-off is visible rather than assumed.
A detailed inventory with values, your codice fiscale, evidence of your Italian residence or your application for it, identification, and a declaration that the goods are used personal effects moving with your change of residence. We prepare and lodge the declaration; you obtain the personal documents, and we tell you exactly what each one looks like.
Normally not. Transfer of Residence relief exists precisely so that people moving their lives are not taxed on their own used belongings. It depends entirely on the paperwork being right and consistent with what is actually on the vehicle, which is why our inventory is written at survey rather than assembled afterwards.
Yes. There is no base town and no collection radius here — London most weeks, and Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Bristol regularly. Once the vehicle is heading for the Channel the rest of the journey is identical wherever it started.
Both addresses and a rough idea of what is coming. We will arrange a survey, work out the crossing and set out what the customs paperwork needs.