What it costs
What does a move in Hoofddorp cost?
Every amount on this page comes from two published rate pages of August 2026 and includes Dutch VAT. Where the two sources differ, that is stated rather than averaged away.
Amounts per type of home
Amounts per type of home
Amounts per type of home, VAT included. The items left out have their own table above, and they are exactly what makes two identical totals promise different things.
| Type of home | Amount, VAT included |
|---|---|
| Studio or small flat | € 350 to € 750 |
| Two or three room flat | € 500 to € 900 |
| Terraced house | € 700 to € 1.200 |
| Detached house | € 1.200 to € 2.500 |
What is not included
Ladder lift, packing, dismantling and reassembly, boxes and storage. They stand with their rate in the item list above, and they are why two quotes with the same total promise different things.
What the survey changes
Half an hour, free of charge, and it produces the cubic-metre list. With that figure you can check any quote, ours included, and the list is and remains your property, whoever ends up doing the move.
Your own cubic metres
Estimate your volume first
Without cubic metres every amount on this page is a generality. With that number it becomes an expectation you can check a quote against.
Your household is roughly
26 to 39 cubic metres
- Moving boxes
- 30 to 70
- Amount from the volume
- € 650 to € 1.950
- Amount from the type of home
- € 700 to € 1.200
The two amounts line up. That means your household is ordinary for this kind of home, and a quote should fall inside this band.
Want to hold someone else’s quote against this?
Send it along. What we take from it is which items are missing, and you get to hear that even if you hire them.
Where it gets stuck
Where the spread comes from
Four things decide where in the band you land. They are listed in order of how much they matter.
Where the van can stand
Fifty metres of extra walking is ten seconds a box, and across sixty boxes that is an hour. In this municipality it is the item that pulls two otherwise identical quotes apart.
The floor and the staircase
Whatever will not fit the stairwell goes through the window, and a ladder lift joins the bill at 60 to 120 euro per hour. A staircase that turns decides more than the number of floors does.
How much needs packing
A family home runs to fifty or seventy boxes. Packing yourself saves eight to sixteen hours of someone else’s time, and that is the largest amount you control yourself.
The key dates
If they do not line up, storage is almost always cheaper than double housing costs. A second loading day comes with it, and that costs more than a month of storage.
The figures, with their source
Five figures, and where they were taken from
Four of them are published elsewhere and can be checked; the fifth is a commitment of ours and is marked as such. That distinction should be visible, including where a source suits us badly.
What is not here
- The exemption sometimes needed to place a van or a lift on the public road. What the council charges for it is absent here: it could not be retrieved on 24 August 2026, and inventing a figure is worse than leaving it out.
- A piano, a safe or an aquarium. Expect two to three hundred euro for a piano and let the survey look at the rest.
- Cleaning and handing back a rented home. That is different work at a different rate, and it should not sit quietly inside a moving quote.
| Figure | What it covers |
|---|---|
| 35 to 50 euro | Per mover per hour, Dutch VAT includedtwo published rate pages, August 2026 |
| 700 to 1200 euro | A terraced house at a fixed price on volumethe same two sources; the one band on which they agree |
| 60 to 120 euro | Ladder lift (verhuislift) per hourone source gives the band, the other quotes 75 euro and sits inside it |
| 50 to 70 | Moving boxes for a family homepublished rule of thumb; a flat needs 20 to 30 |
| 3 working days | Until the survey, at home or by video callour own commitment, and the only line here that is |
Questions
Questions
Question not here? Call or send a message.
Do the amounts on this site include VAT?
Yes, all of them. This is a consumer market and a quote stating the amount without VAT reads twenty-one per cent too low. If you receive an amount excluding VAT, add twenty-one per cent before comparing it with anything here.
Why does one source say 350 euro and the other 650?
Because they count different things. The first prices a studio at half a day with one or two movers; the second prices the smallest self-contained home with a full move. That difference is real and cannot be averaged away, so both appear on this site with the reason attached.
What is the most expensive separate item?
The ladder lift, at 60 to 120 euro per hour. After that, packing: eight to sixteen hours for a family home at 25 to 45 euro per hour per packer. Those two together explain most differences between two quotes that otherwise look alike.
Where can I save without taking a risk?
On packing, if you have the weeks: it is the largest item consisting of someone else’s hours. Where not to save is the ladder lift on a high floor and the number of people on the day. Too few hands makes the day longer, and on an hourly rate you pay for that twice.
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Send both addresses and the floor. Those three facts usually show whether a ladder lift is needed, and that is the largest separate item.