What is an Assisted Move Scheme?
The aim of assisted move is to help make buying a new house easier and quicker by assisting with the sale of your existing house.
Assisted moves are offered by new house builders or developers. They are intended for those who want to buy a new build house from them but have an existing house they need to sell first.
Assisted move schemes are a kind of assisted sale or expedited sale scheme. Think of it as a consultant working to help sell your property for you and taking away some of the admin.
They don’t actually buy your house, but instead act as a supporting system to help speed up the process, take away the hassle and provide introductions to local estate agents who can act quickly for your sale.
They are known by various brand names including Smooth Move by Linden Homes, Help to Sell by Redrom, Easymover by Taylor Wimpey and Movemaker by Barratt Homes.
When it comes to completion day and buying your new house, ‘assisted move’ doesn’t actually mean you get any assistance with your physical house moving on moving day, unfortunately.
It is simply a help-to-sell scheme to aid the process around the selling of your property to enable your purchase of the new build, likely off-plan property.