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Downsize & Move Advice Centre
Practical Advice for Downsizing and Moving
Helpful guides, real Sydney client stories and professional advice to help you declutter, prepare and move into your next home with greater confidence.
Advice for every stage of your move
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Deciding what to keep, sell, donate, store or discard
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Preparing for retirement living, aged care or a smaller home
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Planning packing, removal, storage and unpacking
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Avoiding common downsizing and moving mistakes
Guidance From Real Experience
A Trusted Sydney Downsizing Resource
Downsizing is about much more than moving furniture. It can involve decades of belongings, important family memories, changing health or lifestyle needs and many practical decisions.
This Advice Centre brings together useful information based on nearly 20 years of hands-on experience helping Sydney seniors, families and homeowners declutter, prepare, pack, move and settle into their new homes.
We will continue adding practical guides, checklists, client stories and answers to the questions we encounter during real downsizing and relocation projects.
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Find the Guidance You Need
Explore advice covering the practical and emotional parts of downsizing, moving and preparing for a new stage of life.
Decluttering
Practical ways to sort belongings, reduce overwhelm and organise items for family, auction, charity, storage or disposal.
Moving
Advice for preparing, packing and coordinating a careful, efficient move without unnecessary disruption.
Retirement Living
Guidance for preparing for retirement communities and making the transition into a new home feel more manageable.
Storage
Understand when storage is useful, what should be stored and how to avoid paying to keep belongings you no longer need.
Real Client Stories
Read about Sydney clients who moved after many years in their family homes and began a positive new chapter.
Featured Downsizing Guides
Start With the Right Plan
Our key guides for families and older Australians preparing for downsizing, retirement living or a major relocation.
For Families
Helping Mum or Dad Downsize
Family Downsizing Guide
How Do I Help My Elderly Parents Downsize Their Home?
A practical guide for adult children helping Mum or Dad leave a long-term family home. Learn how to keep your parent involved, organise decades of belongings and manage the move step by step.
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The Fit-First Method
Plan the New Home First
Downsize & Move Fit-First Method
How Do I Know What Furniture Will Fit When Downsizing?
Before deciding what furniture to sell, donate or dispose of, start with the destination. Work out what will fit comfortably first, then decide what happens to everything else.
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Complete Move Management
More Than Just a Removalist
Senior Relocation Guide
What Does a Senior Relocation Service Actually Do?
Learn how a senior relocation service can help with planning, downsizing, sorting, family items, charity, auction, packing, moving, unpacking and setting up the new home.
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Interstate & Overseas Families
Helping Mum or Dad From Far Away
Remote Family Support Guide
How Do I Help My Parents Downsize When I’m Interstate or Overseas?
If Mum or Dad is downsizing in Sydney while you live elsewhere, you can stay involved in the important family decisions while a local team manages much of the sorting, packing, coordination, moving and unpacking.
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Real Sydney Client Story
Downsizing Is About More Than Moving Furniture
See how careful planning and several downsizing sessions helped one Sydney client leave a home she had lived near for around 50 years and move comfortably into retirement living.
Mosman to Woollahra
Around 50 Years of Memories, One Carefully Planned Move
Downsizing from Mosman to Woollahra
Our client was moving from her long-term home near Balmoral Beach in Mosman into a much smaller self-contained unit at Montefiore in Woollahra.
The biggest part of the job was not moving day. We worked with her over four separate downsizing and decluttering sessions so she could gradually decide what would come with her and the old property could be ready for settlement.
Four separate downsizing sessions
Planning around a much smaller new home
Preparing the Mosman property for settlement
Moving and unpacking at Montefiore Woollahra
Downsizing Into Happiness
Practical Guidance From Dan Salamati
Dan Salamati’s book explores the practical and emotional side of downsizing, retirement living and moving into a new stage of life.
It brings together lessons from nearly 20 years of helping people reduce belongings, plan their move and settle into homes that better suit their future.
Latest Downsizing and Moving Guides
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Read practical guidance, real Sydney client stories and professional advice covering downsizing, decluttering, retirement living, aged care moves, home relocations and deceased estate clear-outs.
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Personal Downsizing Support
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Downsize and Move provides complete downsizing and relocation assistance across Sydney, including sorting, decluttering, auction and charity coordination, packing, moving, storage and unpacking.