Cherry Chase Movers for Southwest Sunnyvale Homes

Cherry Chase sits in the southwest corner of Sunnyvale, south of El Camino Real and close to the Mountain View and Los Altos lines. Bernardo Avenue and Hollenbeck Avenue frame much of it, and the neighborhood takes its name from the orchards that covered this land before the tract builders came. Today it is quiet, residential and well known locally for its elementary school, with Sunnyvale's downtown a short drive northeast.

The original homes are post-war single-story ranch houses on regular lots: three or four bedrooms, an attached two-car garage, a living room facing the street and a family room toward the backyard. Over the decades many have been expanded or replaced with two-story houses, so one block can hold both a modest 1950s layout and a new home with a big open kitchen and a staircase.

That mix changes the crew size more than anything else. A single-story three-bedroom with nothing upstairs moves quickly. A rebuilt four-bedroom with a second floor, a full garage and a home office takes a larger crew and more hours.

Our standard team is 3 movers at $175 an hour, which fits most two- and three-bedroom ranch homes. When the house is a three-bedroom over 1,800 square feet or has four bedrooms or more, we send 4 movers at $235. Two movers at $145 is only for a very small move. Every job has a 3-hour minimum and is then billed in 15-minute steps, at one rate every day of the week, and there is no charge to drive to your house. The smallest bill with 3 movers is the 3-hour minimum, 3 x $175 = $525, plus any boxes you use.

Cherry Chase moving cost by home size

For a realistic sense of the total, we compared homes of the same size across our recent local jobs, which is where the ranges below come from. Some moves finish faster and some run longer; we bill only the hours the move takes, with a 3-hour minimum.

Figures use the middle half of billed hours from local moves we completed for direct customers July through October 2026, drive time between homes included, account and full-pack jobs left out. Boxes and other supplies are extra, and no job bills under 3 hours.

A single-story three-bedroom ranch with nothing upstairs usually lands near the low end, while a rebuilt two-story four-bedroom with a full garage and a home office belongs in the four-mover row.

The neighborhood is about 9 miles west of downtown San Jose. For the South Bay our morning arrival window is 8 to 10 AM, and the foreman calls 30 minutes ahead. Driveways here are short and the streets are flat, so access is rarely the issue; the usual delays are cars parked across the curb and a garage packed to the door.

If you are moving farther than 10 minutes away, for example to San Jose or the Peninsula, the drive time between the two homes is doubled under California rules.

• Ask neighbors to leave the curb in front of your house open on the morning of the move.
• Sort the garage first: tools, bikes and the second refrigerator take more time than people expect.
• Have someone available to shut off the water line for an ice maker or washer; we disconnect and move the appliance.
• Decide which furniture is staying with a remodel, so the crew does not wrap pieces twice.
• Mention a referral or past move with us: 5% off for a friend referral, 7% for repeat customers or a real-estate-agent referral.

• Sunnyvale movers: the citywide page.
• Downtown Sunnyvale movers: apartments and condos by the Caltrain station.
• Old Mountain View movers: older cottages around Castro Street.
• Mountain View movers: the neighboring city as a whole.
• Cupertino movers: just south across I-280.

Read about how many movers you need.