How Anna Page of SlothMove is making life easier for house movers

But the real grind may be about to begin. You could spend weeks, perhaps months, telling people you’ve moved. The sheer volume of administrative work involved in relaying news of your move to the banks, utilities and authorities can be exhausting, at a time when your energies would be better engaged elsewhere.

Many people must have had a similar thought; in the digital age, shouldn’t we be capable of spreading the word at the click of a mouse? Surely there is no reason this aspect of the house moving process should be stuck in the 1970s?

Anna Page, the co-founder of the property tech disrupter SlothMove, was sick and tired of the relentless phone calls and form filling. So she decided to do something about it.

She recalled: "In early 2019, I moved house three times in as many months. I seemed to be having the same conversations on the phone time after time. My background is in engineering so I am used to problem solving and finding the best way of doing something with the minimum amount of waste and as cheaply as possible.”

Founded around four years ago in Sheffield, SlothMove has grown to provide services to thousands of active monthly users, who have flocked to the platform because it allows them to change their address across hundreds of businesses and utility providers in one process.

The average home move involves around 21 points of contact to update your addresses. SlothMove reduces this to just one single point of contact, saving each user an average of 12 hours, according to the company’s research. It has helped more than 50,000 home movers to date.

Ms Page was tired of the long and bureaucratic process of individually updating local authorities, central government departments and service providers about her new address.

She added: “Slothmove, which originally started out as a side hustle, is really easy to use. You fill in a form and we do the rest. The customer has always been at the heart of everything we have done.”

Last year, Taylor Rose MW, the UK law firm, acquired a stake in SlothMove, to accelerate its change of address and home-setup service across the UK.