Downsizing Your Home in Adelaide: How We Support Families Through the Transition

For many South Australians, downsizing your home is more than a move, it’s leaving behind a family home filled with memories and stepping into a new chapter. Whether you’re making the decision yourself or helping your parents through it, there are often layers of logistics and emotions to navigate.

On top of preparing a home for sale, there are lifestyle choices to make, services to coordinate, and the emotions that come with such a significant change. At TOOP+TOOP, we’ve guided families through these moments for over 40 years. From elderly couples moving into retirement living, to children supporting parents into aged care, or simply the shift from a large family property to something more manageable, our team has walked this path alongside hundreds of families.

Why downsizing your home feels different from a normal move

• A lifetime of belongings: Sorting through decades of possessions can be emotional and time-consuming.

• Health and wellbeing considerations: Moves often need to be timed around medical appointments, mobility needs, or care requirements.

• Paperwork and decisions: Retirement village contracts, aged care assessments, or simply the long list of services to notify can add complexity.

• Family dynamics: Children, siblings and extended family are often involved, which means more voices and more decisions to balance.

How our team can help

We have a team of experienced Sales Partners who specialise in supporting families through downsizing. Many have spent years guiding clients through the unique challenges of this stage of life, and our role as your trusted advisor often begins well before the home is ready for market.

A number of our team have also supported their parents through this, so we understand not only the practical challenges but also the emotions that come with it.

Our team can:

• Provide early guidance on timing, presentation, and preparing the property in a way that works for you. Sometimes staging or touch-ups may not be suitable, and inspection times may need to work around family routines. That’s okay, we work with you and your family, always mindful that there are other factors to consider.

• Connect you with trusted services, whether it’s a decluttering expert to help sort through decades of belongings, removalists who understand the care needed with sentimental items, short-term storage, or cleaners who can manage both open inspections and final move-out cleans, we only recommend people we know and trust.

• Help your family make decisions with clarity and compassion. Selling the family home often involves more than one voice, and at times, more than one opinion. We’re here as an experienced advisor at your side, to guide conversations, offer clear recommendations, and provide reassurance that every decision is being made with care.

Supporting you right through the process

When it comes to selling a family home, there are often many moving parts beyond simply getting it ready to sell. Once the property is on the market, our team can step in to keep things running smoothly right through the campaign.

• We can visit the home between opens to collect mail, air rooms, and make sure everything feels welcoming.

• Gardens and lawns can be kept neat, and if extra help is needed, we can help coordinate trusted gardeners.

• We work with cleaners who specialise in preparing homes for opens and moving out, so the property always presents at its best.

• If stylists, trades or removalists need access, we can be there to meet them on your behalf.

• After every inspection, we share reports directly with all nominated family members, so everyone stays informed and connected.

It’s about providing steady support right through the process. Taking care of the details that matter, so you and your family can focus on the bigger decisions with confidence.

Our Concierge team

Our Client Concierge team is a dedicated resource for clients and prospective clients. If you call our office or enquire online, they will personally reach out to learn more about your situation, understand your family’s needs, and then match you with the Sales Partner best suited to work with you and the sale of your property.