A Commercial Move with Professionals: The Advantages
Moving company Berlin
Business relocation with professionals instead of your own team
The advantages
Many owners first consider handling the business relocation themselves: hire a van, rope in staff, carry things at the weekend. For a small office that can work. With a shop, a practice or a workshop, however, there are items that are heavy, bulky or delicate – refrigerated counters, glass display cases, safes, treatment chairs, workbenches or machines. Anyone who carries them through the stairwell without straps, dollies and practice risks damage to the equipment, the building and their own people. On top of that, your staff are missing from sales or treatment during this time.
Under the German Commercial Code, a moving company is liable for damage to the goods moved – up to €620 per cubic metre (§ 451e HGB). If you carry things yourself, any damage stays with you. We also apply for the parking restriction zone, bring blankets, straps and tools and reassemble shelving, counters and furniture according to your floor plan. Connections for electricity, water or compressed air are still handled by your specialist contractor. How we move businesses is explained under Office relocation; only individual heavy items? Then our furniture transport is the right fit.
Survey instead of an estimate
Fixed price after a survey for your business
Call us on 01625978461 and arrange a free survey for your business relocation. We look at heavy and delicate items, stairs, lift and access and then draw up a fixed price. That way you can compare honestly: professionals versus van hire plus your team's working time.
Quotes available individually based on workload, scheduling and the desired scope of services.
Why Beste Umzug Unternehmen?
What you hand over to professionals
We are based in Berlin (Stromstraße 21) and, in a business relocation, take on the physical and organisational work around the transport. You have one contact person from the survey through to the set-up, a written quote with a fixed price and a plan of when each room will be cleared. Your team packs personal items and sensitive documents, we do the rest – and your staff can keep serving customers until shortly before the move. For arrangements with your landlord or IT service provider, we give you a list of the points that should be settled beforehand. For private households there is the Private move.
Heavy items
Statutory liability
Shorter closing day
Set-up according to plan
Our range of services
Six advantages professionals offer over a self-organised business relocation with a hire van and your own team – and where their limits lie.
Reliable moving service
Safe handling
Clear communication
Structured move planning
Flexible support
Business expense
Little inventory? Professionals via shared load
Small businesses do not have to haul things themselves either: for a few shelves, an external storeroom or individual heavy items, a shared load is an option. Professionals carry and transport, you share the loading space with other jobs – in return, a time window applies instead of a fixed date.
Everything
for your move
Whether professionals are worth it depends on the business: in a shop it is often counters, refrigerated units and stock, in a practice treatment chairs and delicate equipment, in a workshop workbenches and machines. During the survey we clarify parking restrictions, lift, stairs, door widths and access at both addresses. For offices without customer traffic there is a separate article: Office move with professionals. We plan long distances as long-distance moves.
Planning safe and relaxed
Furniture, boxes, transport routes
Costs, timing and special cases
Questions about a business relocation with professionals
Process of a professional commercial move
At the beginning is a free on-site viewing, in which we capture the scope, particularities and possible challenges such as lifts or narrow approaches. Afterwards we draw up a detailed schedule that is coordinated with your business hours, so customer traffic and work processes are disturbed as little as possible.
On moving day, our specialists take over the disassembly, packing, transport and set-up according to a clearly structured process plan. Every box is labelled and allocated to a room, so everything can be sorted in swiftly at the new site and business operations restart as quickly as possible.
Costs and typical situations at a glance
The costs of a business relocation depend on factors such as distance, number of floors, amount of furniture and the staff required. We always calculate a fair fixed price so that you have full control over costs from the start and no nasty surprises.
Typical situations are moving an entire office floor, relocating a retail shop or moving a doctor's practice to new premises. In all these cases we ensure a structured process, and your staff do not have to carry anything themselves but can look after customers and patients.
Price overview: moving made easy
Your move starts at €359 for a 1-room flat and rises with size: €594 for 2 rooms, €905 for 3 rooms, €1,289 for 4 rooms. For larger properties such as a house or villa we draw up an individual quote. We charge €4.10/km for long distances on long-distance moves. Book your free survey now.
These criteria decide the price
- Distance (from €4.10/km)
- Volume of the goods moved
- Floor and lift
- Parking restriction zone
- Optional: furniture assembly, shared load
Our range of services
Whatever you want to move – we have the fitting solution ready for you.
- Part load
- Save cleverly with our part-load option.
- Clearance
- Professional clearing with a disposal service.
- Furniture transport
- Safe carriage of your pieces of furniture.
- Home move
- From the cellar to the attic – we take care of everything.
- Company move
- Company moves with minimal business interruption.
- Move with assembly
- From disassembly to the finished set-up.
With professionals to another city
If the business moves further away, the business relocation becomes a long-distance move. We plan it from Berlin (Stromstraße 21); destinations can be found in the locations overview and under Long-distance moves. You register the business at the new location.
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