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Removals increases are not due to 'cashing-in'

1st May 1997, Page 14
1st May 1997
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• Removals rates have gone up by as much as six times the rate of inflation over the past year, says a new report.

The Woolwich Building Society survey shows that charges have risen fastest for larger houses. Making a 20-mile move from a detached five-bedroom house now costs an average of £530, compared with ,,C443 a year ago. But David Pearson, chairman of the British Association of Removers, denies that the industry is cashing in on the recovering housing market to put up profit margins.

"Prices have gone up simply because packaging paper has increased by 20%, fuel is more expensive and, of course. employees have had their annual increase," he says.


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