Moving near Finchley Road and Swiss Cottage sounds straightforward until the boxes start piling up, the parking becomes a question mark, and you realise your new place might have a narrow stairwell that looked charming in the photos.

Moving out of a flat near Swiss Cottage station can look straightforward on paper, and then the reality hits: a narrow entrance, no lift, a busy road outside, awkward parking, and a sofa that suddenly seems to have grown overnight.