Moving to Italy
The flagship overview: what a UK to Italy move actually involves, which kind of load suits you, and the three things that decide what it costs.
A move to Italy is a road job, and that is worth saying plainly because people often assume it involves a container and a port. It does not. Your belongings are packed at your UK address, loaded onto a vehicle, driven across the Channel and through France, over or around the Alps, and unloaded into your Italian property by the same crew. Nothing is handled in between.
That matters more than it sounds. Every additional handling point is a point at which something can be dropped, mislaid or repacked badly. A road move has two: the load and the unload.
A whole house, and anyone whose dates cannot move.
Your belongings are the only thing on the vehicle. It leaves when you are ready and drives to your address without a stop for anyone else. The most control you can have over the timing, and the most expensive way to buy it.
A flat, a part-furnished property, a second home.
Your things share the vehicle with other Italy-bound moves on the same route. Considerably cheaper, because the cost of the journey is shared. The trade is flexibility: the vehicle leaves when the route is full rather than the day you would prefer.
A chain that has slipped, or a property still being finished.
We collect and store in the UK, then travel when your Italian date is genuinely firm. It is the answer to the most common problem on this corridor — a UK completion that lands weeks before the Italian one.
What shapes the price
Volume — how much is actually going, established at survey rather than from a bedroom count. Lofts, garages and garden stores are where estimates go wrong.
Access at both ends — and on this corridor the Italian end usually matters more. A ground-floor house near Siracusa and a fourth floor inside the Florence restriction zone are very different afternoons for the same amount of furniture.
Dedicated or shared — whether the vehicle is yours alone or carrying other Italy-bound loads on the same run.
There is no price list on this site and there is not going to be one. What you get instead is a survey, then a written scope that says what is included, what is not, and what would change it.
There is no base town here and no collection radius. The vehicle comes to you, and once it is heading for the Channel the rest of the journey is identical wherever it started.
Collections from more than one address — a house and a storage unit, a workshop, a relative holding furniture — are common and are built into the route rather than squeezed in.
We cover the whole country. Thirteen destinations have their own page because they are the ones we are asked about often enough to know properly — the permits, the gates, the staircases and the last mile.
The whole thing. Survey, export packing, the inventory, the customs declaration, the drive, the crossing, the delivery into the property and taking the packaging away. Where a destination needs a local transfer — a barge in Venice, a small van on the Amalfi Coast — we arrange that too.
As soon as the Italian property is agreed rather than when the keys are. The paperwork wants a head start, the summer months fill early, and a Sardinian or Sicilian move needs longer than a Milanese one.
Somebody does, to let the crew in and say where things go. It does not have to be you — plenty of deliveries are received by a partner, an agent or a neighbour. Agree it in advance and give us a number.
Storage in the UK bridges it, and the load travels when the date is firm. That is much better than a vehicle arriving somewhere nobody can open, and it is a routine part of this corridor rather than an unusual request.
Full pack, part pack, or export materials delivered in advance. For an international road move we would gently push you towards at least a part pack — export wrapping is a different standard from a domestic move, and the inventory has to be right.
Both addresses and a rough idea of what is coming. Everything else follows from that.