A serviced suite, a leased floor coming to the end of its term, a warehouse in Dartford and a shop unit inside a managed centre are four different jobs with four different constraints — and only one of them is mainly about furniture. What follows is what the surveyor is looking for in each, because that is what decides both the price and the plan.
Serviced office moveManaged workspace — half the room is the operator's.
The survey counts IT equipment crates, document and file boxes and branded or display items, checks the building's access hours, and documents what belongs to the operator and what belongs to you — the thing that causes most of the arguments on the day.
Typical range on this service: £700–£15,000, fixed after the visit.
Traditional leased office moveLeased office — moving out is only half the job.
A leased office usually carries reinstatement obligations: alterations taken back out, the floor yielded up in the condition the lease specifies. Your landlord has 56 days after the term ends for a figure on anything left undone, so the survey counts two things — what travels to the new address, and what has to come off the walls, out of the ceiling and up off the floor before the keys go back.
Co-working and hot-desk moveHot-desk / pod — smallest move, strictest building.
Co-working space is held on a licence rather than a lease, so notice is short and the date is rarely yours to pick. The operator controls the goods lift, the loading-bay slot and the hours anything can be carried through reception, and most will want a method statement and an insurance certificate on file before a crew is let in.
Typical range on this service: £150–£800, fixed after the visit.
Warehouse and industrial moveIndustrial unit — stock and racking are two different jobs.
Pallet racking is not simply unbolted and put back up. Once a run is relocated the new configuration needs its own safe load notices and a check by a technically competent person before anything is loaded onto it — so the survey counts bays and beam levels separately from pallets, cages and loose stock, and sets the order the floor comes down in.
Typical range on this service: £1,500–£25,000+, fixed after the visit.
Retail and shop moveCommercial unit — the landlord's timetable sets yours.
A high-street or shopping-centre unit arrives with a fit-out guide, contractor inductions, booked delivery-bay slots and, more often than not, work confined to the hours the doors are shut; a licence to alter commonly takes four to eight weeks to come back. Stock, shelving, gondolas, tills, display and the shopfront are counted separately, because what gets stripped out is governed by the lease and what travels is governed by what you are still selling.
Typical range on this service: £500–£8,000, fixed after the visit.
Studio and creative space moveCreative space — fragile, calibrated, or irreplaceable.
Edit suites, servers, calibrated monitors, lighting rigs, instruments, lenses and backdrops do not travel in cartons — they travel in crates and cases, packed last and unloaded first. The survey lists the specialist items one at a time, agrees which of them you would rather pack yourself, and records what has to be powered down, labelled and brought back up at the other end.
Typical range on this service: £300–£5,000, fixed after the visit.
All six are priced off the same floor-area bands below, and in all six the figure is fixed after the visit rather than before it.