Hi Laura,
We moved over in November last year. There's only me and my boyfriend (no kids or animals). I'd say in total we have spent about £12,000-£15,000 on the move. Can't be specfic I'm afraid as I don't want to calculate the exact amount...it'll scare me!!! This includes fees of getting visas, flights, shipping, campervan hire when we arrived and costs of touring for a month, and setting up new (rental) house and buying car. We didn't bring much furniture with us as a lot of what we had in the UK was due for replacement any way but we did bring alot of "stuff" as I'm a hoarder!! We've had to buy sofa, white goods and bed since we got here, plus replace alot of little things like kitchen equipment...it all adds up!!
Think we got good prices on household goods as we shopped around alot but spent more than we should have touring round. Could probably of saved money on the whole touring round thing but that was our holiday for a while so decided to enjoy it as we are now saving for a holiday back to the UK next year.
As for shipping it took approx 12 weeks from house to house, but took a while to get delivered this end as we had to get it linehauled between 2 cities and it was over the Christmas period.
Can't help with the house selling side I'm afraid.
As for time frame. We had no job offer. EOI was selected Sept, ITA received Nov, submitted March, interview May, Decision successful June, renewed pasports then visas in passport 1 August.
Hope that helps,
