How to beware the pitfalls and rogue operators when buying a park home

The next part of their plan was to sell their cottage and buy a park home in the UK. This, they reasoned, would free up funds for their impending retirement and take away concerns about leaving a house unattended for weeks at a time while they escaped to the sun. It’s a life changing trajectory that many have taken but it can be fraught with issues as they and others have discovered. Many of the problems now lie with unscrupulous owners of holiday parks.

, the Caravan owners advisory team, a group of volunteers who help those with holiday static caravan or lodge related problems. It campaigns for stricter regulations and proper enforcement of consumer rights on mis-selling and other issues such as the raising of site fees and security of tenure. The issue of rogue traders has never been so pressing as the number of park home sites is booming. Carole says: “It’s an issue that has been going on for years.

and Holiday Park Action include snagging problems on second hand park homes. There is also ignorance over ongoing costs. “People rushed to buy park homes during the pandemic without thinking about site fees, which are a few hundred pounds a year, and the depreciation in value of a park home as it gets older. There are also selling fees to consider as, realistically, you have to sell through the park owners.

and Holiday Park Action want to see more rigorous controls of the park home sector, which they say is booming and is becoming a focus for overseas investors. “The issues have been ignored by the government for so many years and yet the number of people looking to us for help has risen dramatically,” says Carole. “We need more local authority checks on holiday parks but the resources are not there.

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