Why are we so obsessed with MOVING HOUSE?

With more homes on the market than last year, we investigate the nation's love of selling up

- SHONA SIBARY

We've all been there. When you've just finished decorating the last room in your home, you look around and think, 'What next?' Do you redecorate, beginning with the first room you started with? Do you sit tight and simply enjoy your home for a few years? Or is it time to move on and start a new project? As many as 50,000 people move home every week in the UK, suggesting that a huge number of us choose the latter.

And recently, it was reported that the property market is booming. Buyers are currently spoilt for choice, with the number of homes being sold at a 10-year high, according to Rightmove.

But why, as a nation, are we so obsessed with moving? One woman tells us about her love of trading her home for a new one...

'I JUST CAN'T HELP MYSELF'

Shona Sibary lives in Sussex.

There is a man's name in my phone contacts - let's call him Dave - who was once an important person to me but who now refuses to answer my calls. He isn't an ex-boyfriend or even a friend. He's just some poor bloke who happens to own a Luton van and who once advertised his removals business on Gumtree.

He didn't know it when I first contacted him in 2018, but he was doomed to help me move four times over the next six years. He has seen the contents of my underwear drawer more times than my husband and got groin strain twice from trying to shove our super-king-sized bed up narrow staircases.

Addicted to moving

You might wonder why I have this crazy compulsion to keep moving house. The truth is, like many people with an addiction, I just can't help myself.