Moving Home with Charlie
Charlie Lamdin shares his wisdom from 25 years behind the scenes of the moving industry on a mission to make moving easier and help find a home for everyone. Everything bad estate agents don't want you to know (but good agents won't mind you knowing!) to help you get a better chance of securing the home you want. He also shares his unique perspective on what's happening in the housing market and economy. Visit https://mhwc.co.uk for more.
Seller asks: "No viewings. What are we doing wrong?" Charlie answers.
You have to overcome your own optimism bias. The market is mean and nasty for sellers right now.
10 Golden Rules for Home Sellers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9oR28aWLOs
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Rightmove Reports Falling Prices: What's actually happening.
Sept 25: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/news/content/uploads/2025/09/Rightmove-HPI-15th-September-Final-1-1.pdf
Sept 24: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/news/content/uploads/2024/09/Rightmove-HPI-16th-September-Final.pdf
Times Article: https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/economics/article/house-prices-fall-for-first-time-since-january-last-year-v3cd7rpl0
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RICS agents survey sounds the death knell for 2025's house prices - 5 Fact Friday 12 Sep 2025
5FF source links: https://mhwc.co.uk/blog/5-fact-friday-12-september-2025/
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Fred's 2026 House Price Crash Prediction looks scarily right
RICS August 2025 Survey download: https://www.rics.org/content/dam/ricsglobal/documents/market-surveys/uk-residential-market-survey/8_WEB_August_2025_RICS_UK_Residential_Market_Survey_tp.pdf
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How do "Search Packs" derail house buying? Live Q&A with CEO of Search Pack Provider
This week: Bring your questions for my special guest, Founder and CEO of Property Searches Direct, Daniel Hamilton-Charlton. Watch the video here: https://youtube.com/live/8YKhNx-QLtk
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Full video explainer with Daniel here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqrBOZEZVew
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Jobs plummet, inflation rises, budget uncertainty hits housing - 5 Fact Friday, Sep 5, 2025
5FF links: https://mhwc.co.uk/blog/5-fact-friday-5-september-2025/
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Live Q&A with Surveyor Dan Knight AssocRICS
This week: Live Q&A with specialist guest and RICS Surveyor Dan Knight, talking Building Surveys.
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Dan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danthesurveyorman/
Dan Knight's website
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Is the destruction of the UK economy deliberate or incompetence? Charlie and Stiggy chat
Alex Groundwater, aka Housing Stig, is a lifelong friend of Charlie’s and a former Programme Director at the FT, Sony and Cisco.
He’s also a stats junkie and can’t help himself but use public data to create graphs that debunk mainstream myths.
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Seller Advice Video Playlist
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Charlie is interviewed about BestAgent for property podcast "The Right Move"?
Charlie talks to John Rose, host of "The Right Move?" property podcast show about BestAgent and fixing the housing market.
Listen to "The Right Move?" property podcast show on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/show/3RrdKjwwZZPwB8Ln2Ur6XI
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The government wants to wipe out small landlords for good. 5 Fact Friday 29 August 2025
5FF links: https://mhwc.co.uk/blog/5-fact-friday-29-august-2025/
Charlie's 10 Golden Rules of Buying a Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6T-uZ28a80
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Wednesday Workshop: Conveyancing Q&A with special guest
For this Weekly Wednesday Workshop, bring your questions on conveyancers, buying, selling, leaseholds, whatever you want to know, and put them to the boss of my award-winning partner conveyancing firm Thomas Legal.
If you'd like to talk to Thomas Legal about being your conveyancer, click here and one of them will call you back: https://mhwc.co.uk/conveyancing
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Charlie's 5 Golden Rules of Offering on a Home
1. Always make the offer!
2. Ignore all pressure on how much to offer (inc asking price!)
3. Max Comfortable Price, no more, no less, no haggling!
4. Always and only offer by email, after sleeping on it.
5. Remember: An offer is about the quantity (£) AND quality.
FTB Offer email template for Mortgage buyers
https://mhwc.co.uk/suggested-email-template-for-first-time-buyers-making-an-offer-with-a-mortgage/
Offer Email Template for Cash Buyers
https://mhwc.co.uk/email-templates/suggested-email-offer-template-for-cash-buyers/
10 Golden Rules for Home Buyers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6T-uZ28a80
10 Golden Rules for H...
5 Fact Friday 22 August 2025 - Uncertainty returns to derail the fragile housing market.
5FF links: https://mhwc.co.uk/blog/5-fact-friday-22-august-2025/
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Buyer clinic: How to avoid a bidding war when in a bidding war.
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Live Q&A for struggling home sellers. You're running out of time.
A perfect storm of rising living costs, rising refurbishment costs and an oversupply of homes for sale has made it the hardest market to sell a home in since the 2008 crash. Watch the video of this podcast here: https://youtube.com/live/n-RiZMafEJA
The media has failed to make people aware of the realities facing the housing market.
Today, Rightmove confirmed the third consecutive month of falling house prices with the average down almost £11,000 in three months.
With rising unemployment, the uncertainty of tax rises at the October budget looming and reports of a “p...
5 Fact Friday 15 August 2025 - Lending loosened housing market falters.
5FF links: https://mhwc.co.uk/blog/5-fact-friday-15-august-2025/
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Live Q&A: Is it the best time or the worst time to buy?
Watch the live video here: https://youtube.com/live/m1oiBlUdi5s
The reasons to buy for all buyers have changed. FTBs, Upsizers and Downsizers. For the foreseeable future. Still buy a home, but check your assumptions first.
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Why Gary Stevenson is right about wealth inequality, but wrong about wealth taxes.
Watch the video of this livestream here: https://youtube.com/live/K3Ueb_k8NSU
Watch Sasha Yanshin’s video on why wealth taxes actually hurt those they’re supposed to help: https://youtu.be/BXjrQVZo4nE
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Five Fact Friday 8 Aug 2025: Sun shines, but storm clouds loom over economy & housing.
5FF links: https://mhwc.co.uk/blog/5-fact-friday-8th-august-2025/
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Will looming tax rises affect mortgages and housing affordability? With Mortgage Broker Lewis Shaw
Watch the video of this podcast here: https://youtube.com/live/uZbV0vyZUBw
Taxes are going up in October. What will this do to the housing market? Charlie and Lewis Shaw discuss.
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Livestream with Carringtons: Incredible Agent Results from 6 months of the BestAgent 'No Valuations' strategy
https://youtu.be/rQkyRWQKOr4
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The cost of believing house prices only go up: Forced Renting.
35% of Help to Buy Sales have sold for less than they paid.
https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/money/article/i-wish-i-had-never-bought-my-help-to-buy-flat-its-lost-40k-fgkvcqlmx
HtB victim can't sell without losing £70k
https://www.reddit.com/r/HousingUK/s/4o8dX22yDQ
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FTB Offer Email Template
https://mhwc.co.uk/email-templates/suggested-email-offer-template-for-cash-buyers/
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Zoopla, Savills, Rightmove ALL Cut 2025 house price Forecast to 1% - 5 Fact Friday 1 Aug 2025
5FF links: https://mhwc.co.uk/blog/5-fact-friday-1-august-2025/
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Stig and Charlie discuss the politics and economics of housing (for new followers)
Alex Groundwater, aka Housing Stig, is a lifelong friend of Charlie’s and a former Programme Director at the FT, Sony and Cisco. Watch this on video here: https://youtube.com/live/5nXtOFJ28F4?feature=share
He’s also a stats junkie and can’t help himself but use public data to create graphs that debunk mainstream myths.
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https://x.com/alexgroundwater
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Seller Advice Video Playlist
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🚨 Record July asking price drop: Rightmove ⤵️ - Reaction & Breakdown
Watch the video of this podcast here: https://youtube.com/live/Gh3D48cQsqs
Rightmove July 2025 Full Report
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/news/content/uploads/2025/07/Rightmove-HPI-21st-July-Final-1-1.pdf
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GDP & jobs falling, inflation up, gilt yields 27 yr high; economy tanking. 5FF 18 July 2025
Unusual 5FF video recording as I'm away. A ramble about the overall state of the economy and how it should affect your move. Watch the video here: https://youtube.com/live/rdYN9RR2VAY
All 5FF Links
https://mhwc.co.uk/blog/5-fact-friday-18-july-2025/
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REACTION: Panorama on Connells illegal selling & Purplebricks shenanigans
Watch the video of this podcast here: https://youtube.com/live/2oq3drZ3EQo
Charlie's Reaction to last night's Panorama on estate agents overvaluing and conditional selling.
Panorama: Undercover Estate Agent
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002fygs/panorama-undercover-estate-agent
You and Yours: Estate Agency:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002fvkj
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Housing Stig and Charlie discuss the absolute state of the nation. (Warning: Explicit language)
Alex Groundwater, aka Housing Stig, is a lifelong friend of Charlie’s and a former Programme Director at the FT, Sony and Cisco. Watch the video here: https://youtube.com/live/WYfusfDMTyc
He’s also a stats junkie and can’t help himself but use public data to create graphs that debunk mainstream myths.
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https://x.com/alexgroundwater
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The 3 P's that ensure you don't overpay for your home.
Patience, Persistence, Preparedness. Watch the video of this podcast here: https://youtube.com/live/KhssTka_AFo
You must have all 3 to be sure you don't end up regretting your purchase. Charlie breaks them down.
Also, the video of a shoddy new build that went viral on X: https://x.com/moving_charlie/status/1944322633660580101
"House builders offer £100m to drop competition probe"
https://www.constructionenquirer.com/2025/07/09/house-builders-offer-100m-to-drop-competition-probe/
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5 Fact Friday 11 July 2025 - New Homes Illegal Ripoff Covered up by CMA
All 5FF Links
https://mhwc.co.uk/blog/5-fact-friday-11th-july-2025/↗
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Did 7 big house builders just buy their way out of lawsuits for £100m? (Skip from 14m to 17m)
Paying to have an investigation dropped is an egregious affront to everyone who overpaid for a new home from these 7 firms.
Barratt Redrow, Bellway, Berkeley Group, Bloor Homes, Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey and Vistry
This should be a HUGE scandal. Should you get compensation for overpaying on your new home because they fixed prices illegally? Watch the video here: https://youtube.com/live/5WC66mxeDKo
The audio clip I played at 14m into the livestream didn't work. You need to skip 3 min forward to 17m to continue.
Link to the mi...
Live Q&A: What is 'overpaying'? Plus: Halifax v Nationwide June HPI
Live Q&A plus Halifax v Nationwide. Who is right?
What is overpaying?
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https://www.halifax.co.uk/assets/pdf/june-2025-halifax-house-price-index.pdf
https://www.nationwidehousepriceindex.co.uk/reports/annual-house-price-growth-softens-in-june
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Rant: Why the government will never fix housing. (Caution: Expletives)
Watch the video of this expletive-laden rant here: https://youtube.com/live/zKc4g37ZDOU
There's no chance of any government fixing the housing market. But it's too important not to fix. Which is why we must fix it.
Reeves crying.
https://x.com/moving_charlie/status/1940380198534557980
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Charlie is interviewed by Russell Quirk in a frank discussion for the Home Front Podcast - ffwd to 6m for conversation.
Russell and Charlie have had some public spats disagreeing about the housing market. This conversation is perhaps a little more grown up, and definitely more constructive.
Find Russell's podcast home page here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/home-front-with-russell-quirk-a-sassy-production/id1806319105
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Are House Prices Now Crashing? ONS and Nationwide add to RM price fall reports.
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Zoopla's Warning to Home Sellers - FTB price drops.
Are we seeing the first signs of FTB prices falling?
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Zoopla's June 2025 House Price Index
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/discover/property-news/house-price-index/
PDF Version: https://assets.ctfassets.net/02vwvgr6spsr/1Tdp6H6MvjpVtbzoo2erEt/f1150fdc8d355e35166f8e88a9498d12/UK_House_Price_Index_June25_final_ZP.pdf
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LIVE: Q&A - Sellers chances ruined by multiple overvaluing agents
10 Golden Rules for Home Buyers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6T-uZ28a80
10 Golden Rules for Home Sellers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9oR28aWLOs
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FTB Offer Email Template: https://mhwc.co.uk/suggested-email-template-for-first-time-buyers-making-an-offer-with-a-mortgage/
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When and How to Change Your Estate Agent (& not pay 2 fees)
If you don't get your choice of agent right first time, it can be horrific. Watch the video of this podcast here: https://youtube.com/live/7ZcptNFeNGY
Playlist of videos on How to Choose your agent:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKomt2RI3JYm6AYomX_9PK1k1nYOwbLIm
Case study of successful claim against agent for overvaluing:
https://www.tpos.co.uk/news-media-and-press-releases/case-studies/item/valuations-material-information-and-complaint-handling
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ONS reports House Prices drop £6,000 in April - 5 Fact Friday - 20 June 2025
All 5FF Links
https://mhwc.co.uk/blog/5-fact-friday-20-june-2025/
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Housing Market KO'd by Stamp Duty & Jobs Tax Double Whammy
In this video Charlie explains why he thinks the already-stagnant housing market is headed for worse trouble.
Here's RM's June house price index in full. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/news/content/uploads/2025/06/Rightmove-HPI-16th-June-Final.pdf
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Far more than 5 Facts Friday - 13 June 2025 - The Slide will Continue
Watch the video of this podcast here: https://youtube.com/live/JViWw_jxLVA
All 5FF Links
https://mhwc.co.uk/blog/5-fact-friday-13-june-2025/
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