Moving house to new location

[southbound_295]

I've seen houses & public buildings being moved, intact, on the local news in Philly. I've also heard about them being disassembled & reassembled & cut in half when they are moved, but it is possible to move them intact.

It's never cheap, but I think you should take your house with you. I love old houses & to have one built by an ancestor is special. You might even have to go with a company that isn't local, if you don't find what you want with the local companies, but if the house is structurally sound, I think you can do this.

[ChelleC]

UPDATE: I just got off the phone with a company that says they will have to come out and look at my house, but generally it costs in the neighborhood of $20k to move something if only one trip needs to be made. That's them bringing it in and setting it on the footers. That's no electrical, plumbing, HVAC, etc.

[chaski]

You started this thread in April of 2009. I'm curious: what did you find out and what did you decide to do? I have a friend who's daughter + husband are trying to buy a house in the Boston area. They keep getting outbid--we're talking $500,000 houses, not necessarily desirable ones. It occurs to me that if they bought a lot in the area, purchased a desirable house in an area where prices aren't astronomical, disassembled it, moved it and reassembled it, that that might work out financially. Does anyone know of this having been done?