We do not publish a price for moving to Sweden, and it is worth explaining why rather than burying it. Any figure written before someone has seen your inventory and both addresses is a guess dressed up as a quote, and the number you would actually pay would differ from it enough to make the exercise pointless.
What we can do is tell you exactly what the number is made of, so you can judge a quote when you get one and understand why two firms might price the same move differently. Six things drive it: the volume of your goods, the access at both ends, whether you take a shared vehicle or a dedicated one, the distance within Sweden, the season, and how much of the packing you do yourself.
There is also a seventh factor that is not about the removal at all, and it is frequently the largest single number in the whole move. Swedish VAT is 25 per cent. If Tullverket grants relief on your household goods, duty and that VAT both disappear. If it does not, they do not. Getting the paperwork right is worth more than negotiating hard on the transport.
International Removals Companies is a free enquiry matching service operated by DATACONTEXT (UK) LTD (company 07425576). It does not carry out removals and does not operate vehicles. Moving companies price uncertainty into a quote, so the more you tell one vetted mover up front, the tighter the number comes back. They contact you, survey the move and confirm the quote, and if they cannot take your dates the enquiry passes to another mover in the network.
Volume is the base. Everything else adjusts it. A one bed flat and a four bed house are different jobs before anyone looks at an address, and an honest inventory is the single most useful thing you can send with an enquiry. Underestimating it does not save money, it just moves the correction to a later and more awkward point.
Access is what surprises people. The same volume costs more into a fifth floor Stockholm flat with a retrofitted lift that will not take a wardrobe than into a Mölndal house with a drive. Send the floor number, the lift's internal dimensions and anything unusual about the approach, and the quote you get back will be one that holds.
Tullverket can remove import duty and Swedish VAT on household goods where you have lived outside the EU for at least a year, intend to live in Sweden for at least a year, and the goods were already in your household's use. VAT alone is 25 per cent. On any substantial household this dwarfs the difference between two removal quotes.
A shared vehicle is considerably cheaper because you pay for the space you use rather than the whole lorry. You give up the fixed date in exchange. For anything under a full household, particularly to northern Sweden, it is usually the sensible trade.
Costs nothing to provide and changes the quote materially. Floor number, lift dimensions, parking, whether the street takes a lorry. Firms price uncertainty into a quote when they do not have it, so the more you send, the tighter the number comes back.
Send your collection address, your Swedish delivery address with the floor, lift dimensions and access notes, and an honest inventory. Your enquiry goes to one vetted firm from our network who already covers this work.
Get your free quoteEvery mover in our network quotes after seeing an inventory and both addresses, usually by video survey rather than in person. That is the point at which a number becomes reliable. A figure produced before then is a range at best, and ranges published on websites tend to be optimistic, because an optimistic range wins the enquiry.
If you want to compare properly, give every firm the same inventory and the same access details. Most of the variation between quotes for the same Swedish move comes from firms making different assumptions about what you did not tell them.
Swedish customs, including the Tullverket relief conditions and the twelve month restriction that follows, is set out in full on the Sweden removals hub.
It depends on the volume of your goods, the access at both addresses, whether you take a shared or dedicated vehicle, where in Sweden you are going, and the season. We do not publish a figure because a number produced before anyone has seen your inventory is a guess. The mover matched to your enquiry confirms it after a survey.
Often it is not the transport. Swedish VAT is 25 per cent, and Tullverket can remove both that and any import duty on household goods where the conditions are met. On a substantial household the value of getting that paperwork right exceeds the difference between competing removal quotes.
Usually yes, and often substantially, because you pay for the space your goods occupy rather than for the whole lorry. What you give up is the fixed delivery date, since a shared load waits for enough freight going the same way. For volumes below a full household it is generally the better trade.
Yes. The road leg from either entry point to Luleå, Kiruna or Skellefteå is long, and a dedicated vehicle over that distance for one household is expensive. Northern deliveries are usually consolidated onto shared vehicles for exactly that reason, which brings the cost down and widens the delivery window.
Almost always because the firms are working from different assumptions about what they were not told. Access is the usual culprit. Give every firm the same inventory, the same floor number, the same lift dimensions and the same notes on parking and approach, and the quotes converge considerably.
A free enquiry matching service operated by DATACONTEXT (UK) LTD. It does not carry out removals. Each enquiry is connected with one vetted mover from our network. Network movers hold FIDI FAIM certification, audited by Ernst & Young against more than two hundred criteria, alongside memberships including BAR Overseas, IAM, EUROMOVERS and FEDEMAC.
Page last reviewed and updated 29 July 2026. Customs and registration requirements change; check tullverket.se and skatteverket.se for the current position.
Timing, insurance, accreditation and customs requirements must be confirmed by the matched mover before booking. Check tullverket.se for the current customs position.