How the numbers here are made

Where the figures come from

• Rules and rights come from the consumer agency that publishes them: the NSW Government, the Queensland Government, Consumer Affairs Victoria, Consumer Protection WA and the ACCC.
• Prices come from named 2026 price guides published by Australian cost-guide sites, removal businesses and a storage price tracker. They are labelled as industry figures wherever they appear, because each is one publisher's read on the market, not a survey.
• Trade figures (search volumes, cost per click, business counts) come from Semrush AU data published in a keyword guide, and from IBISWorld.

What happens when sources disagree

We show both. For a 3-bedroom move from Sydney to Melbourne, Six Brothers Removalists publishes $3,200-$5,500 ⁴ and Yes Movers publishes $3,800-$5,400 ³ for a truck of your own. Rather than average them into a number nobody published, both sit side by side on the interstate page with their names attached.

The same applies when a source contradicts itself. StoragePrices.au describes Adelaide as the cheapest city ² , yet its own median for a medium unit there is $240/mo ² , above Brisbane's $184/mo ² . We print the numbers and point it out.

What we could not verify

• Licensing. We found no consumer-agency page describing a licence for furniture removalists in NSW, Queensland, Victoria or WA. The NSW page points to industry accreditation (AFRA) ¹ instead, and notes that smaller removalists may not be members. So this site makes no claim that removalists are licensed or unlicensed.
• "Holding goods hostage." The phrase is common online and absent from the official pages we read, so we describe what regulators actually documented instead.
• Council parking fines and permit fees quoted in industry guides. We could not confirm them at the councils that set them, so they are not on the site.
• Pages we could not reach. When a source stops loading, for example because its security certificate lapses or it blocks automated checks, we replace it with one that works and re-check the figure, or take the figure down.

How the figures stay current

Every figure carries the date we last matched it and an expiry date. A report run before each deploy lists anything past its expiry and any source link that no longer loads, and those are re-checked before they stay up. Live data such as storage prices expires after 30 days, price guides after three to six months, and government pages after twelve. Where a regulator's page is several years old, the year is said in the text.

Who checks the figures

The person responsible for writing and checking these pages is named here, with a short background, before the site launches.

What this site is not

We are not a removalist and we are not a government agency, and we are not affiliated with AFRA or any regulator. Nothing here is legal, financial or insurance advice. Every price is a published estimate, and only a removalist's own written quote is a price you can hold them to.

How the site is paid for

Once quote requests open, we will pass your request to removalists who cover your route, and they may pay us a fee for that introduction. The fee is not added to your quote. We also sell a managed website plan to removal businesses, which includes a marked listing next to our guides. Neither changes a figure here, because every price comes from a published source.

This site may show advertising. Ads never change our figures.

Corrections

If a number here doesn't match its source, tell us which page and which figure, with a link if you have one. Corrections that come with a source are handled before any other work. An address for corrections is published on the contact page before launch.

The business behind this site is named here, with its ABN and a contact address, before launch. Contact details.