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Seven great reasons to live in a park home
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2024
- Park home life in Scotland offers a host of benefits, from affordability, strong community and simply beautiful and comfortable interiors.
Now being seen as an increasing popular way to retire or settle down later in life, more and more Scots are getting in on the trend.
I am estate agent Alan Ferguson, and I have compiled my top seven reasons why home hunters should give park home living a shot:
1.AFFORDABLE: You can get a brand new park home in most areas for a considerably lower price than a bricks and mortar home. As an estate agent,I have listed a three bedroomed park home for £74,000 in a neighbourhood where houses sell for more than £200,000. This means you get access to an affluent neighbourhood for a fraction of the price.
2.COMMUNITY: There is a warmth of community at permanent residential parks. Many of those living in the parks are older people who have come to live alongside like-minded people, those at a similar stage in life as them. Many parks are reserved for those older than 45. You’ll meet new friends and neighbours, and never be lonely!
3.SAFE: Park home living is always within a gated area, so security is tight. Residents need not have the fear of strangers loitering around outside their home or passing by. They are contained parks with staff to manage and keep secure. This means crime and disturbances are practically non-existent!
4.LIFESTYLE: Park home living is a way to adopt a whole new change to your lifestyle. It is a breath of fresh air, and opens you to a new world of opportunity to enjoy life. It could be the big positive change you are needing in life! This is perfect for retirement!
5.EASILY MANAGED: Park homes are basically small bungalows and as such easy to look after, clean and maintain when necessary. You won’t have to worry about doing too much hoovering or dusting to keep the home looking and smelling fresh. Modern park homes are designed to last, and easily maintained and fixed. A stress free home!
6.INTERIOR: The interiors of new park homes are second to none. Your whole home comes with brand new furniture, a brand new modern kitchen, bathrooms and beds… Curtains, blinds, carpets… - all matching and looking beautiful together. They are a work of art. These homes are also very easily adapted to the needs of the occupant.
7.ENERGY EFFICIENT: New park homes are well insulted and can stay cosy during the wintry months. They are fitted with gas central heating, which is powered by a boiler, supplied with gas from a refillable LPG cannister to the rear of the home. Modern park homes are praised for how energy efficient they have become!
That’s seven reasons why you should live in a park home! And I’m totally sold! Be sure to check out my listings for available park homes in the west of Scotland.
👁👄👁 me a 20 year old contemplating on whether i should just move into a caravan and live a chill life
I’ve just turned 23 and I’ve decided I’m going to move into a caravan 😌
I’m 15 and I’m planning on living in one for a while when I’m older
Me too! Don’t want to deal with young people and children when I retire. I want peace and quiet away from the loonies.
The elderly are prime target by thugs for robbery, assault. He’ll even a young woman at a mall kiosks will swindle you $2k for anti AGI g cream. Seriously! 80 yo don’t need anti wrinkles but they are prime targets by the greedy and young
look into van life first
I'm 24 and I live in one :)
Roll those Rrrrrrr's baby!..... Roll them!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrowing
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i currently live in a very big lodge in a site with 12 month living its so fun i love it
Does it mean you can live as your own home as long as you wish just like homes from bricks ?
Baolinh Ma yeah
@@nmhrkjoy1 ye it’s just a home that we live in
Faith-Moya price, I didn't realize this was possible. Would be interested to know more
The beeps sound like swearing being blocked out! "Park homes are f****** easily managed"
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I was thinking that. what a funny sound to use ... ffs bleep
Depreciation is huge and the exact opposite to appreciation in bricks and mortar. Also, once your mortgage is paid for, you only have your council tax/water rates (plus normal service bills)......you won't have to spend £150 p/m for site services.
That's cool, if you want to stay in a flat in the city. Many people want to live in a breezy, open country setting in a detached property. Not everyone cares about depreciation. Park life is a LIFESTYLE choice. But if you keep the home in good condition, you'll certainly limit the depreciation. Too many let them fall into ruin and expect to sell it for brand new price.
Park homes are currently registered as residential and therefore 12 months. They are no longer grouped as caravans or even mobile homes. Hope this helps.
Thank you - yes it does! I am seriously thinking of moving into one of these properties, although I’m hearing a lot of negative comments about not owning the piece of land underneath the home. This has worried me greatly. What rights do I have?
@@memyself1566 nobody who ‘owns’ a leasehold property out ‘in the streets’ such as a flat, owns the land either. The laws that are currently in place protect the resident and you cannot be evicted from a site or bothered in any way. You have the same protection and you’re left alone. There is a small fee to pay monthly but this covers water charges etc and the site owner has to keep the park in 1st class condition. It’s a very secure, safe and friendly way of life which people living it love. Most have downsized so have a comfortable life. I love it and if I won the lottery I’d get a new unit and stay here. You have the same rights as as leaseholder except that it doesn’t run out over the years. Visit a few sites and have a chat.
@@7000bass
Many thanks for your informative and comprehensive reply. I think it is the way forward for me, as I have now retired and have grown very tired of suburbia - for various reasons!
@@memyself1566 have a good look into it. It’s without any doubt the best move I ever made. Good luck 😉
@@7000bass
Many thanks - you have given me hope and inspiration.
The Other Side of The Story...
I've just been made homeless at the age of 64, with medical issues, having lived for eight years, solvent and living a relatively peaceful life, looking after my cat and plants. Why?
Because our 'Park Home' site that had both PH's and Statics was sold. Out of the frying pan and into the FIRE..
The site was divided into statics - occupied by rent paying tenants and 'Owner Occupiers' occupying the PHs.
The previous owners - (Pikey's) residing in Lancashire (500 miles up-country) failed to fullfill their 'landlord' obligations by properly maintaining the statics, yet most tenants lived in fear of constant eviction (via Section 21), so generally felt less inclined to complain or report the issues to the Council. Those that did complain to the council were mostly ignored by the council. The site was supposedly 'managed' by one person - probably the most detestable person I've ever known... She failed to follow-up on tenants concerns. What remedial work was done, was done by her late partner - who bodged everything due to laziness/incompetence. In addition, the illegal practice of profitting from the sale of electricity was occuring.
Then we have the fraudulent sequestration of assets from elderly estates - in one instance, the previous owner's gained - upwards of a hundred grand, from the fraudulent sale of one particular PH. This residence - one of best on-site - was originally owned by an elderly couple (par for course on PH estates...). She died. He was unable to remain in the residence due to memories etc and was becoming frail himself, so he moved off-site to an elderly residence. The sale of their home was entrusted to the 'site manager', who informed the PH owner that they would need to carry-out an 'evalutation inspection'... (This woman, wouldn't know how to evaluate or inspect a wheelbarrow, let alone the structural integrity of a PH ). I possess a copy of a document that was given to the erstwhile elderly resident - it informs him, that unfortunately his PH was not suitable for sale and would need to be condemned and as such would mean he would receive no payment for its sale, but given his age and condition, he would be absolved from paying any demolition/removal/inspection dues... How KIND of them...
Shortly thereafter, the 'Site Manager' moved into that very PH... I had to visit (to pay my electricity bill...) and noticed how plush and well maintained, both the interior and exterior of that PH was, given its obvious age, its garden - a corner plot - was beautiful. It certainlly was not condemnable. The 'site manager' lived in that PH for almost a year, then she had to move back into another static, as the owner's had decided to sell the property for the amount mentioned above. HOW IS THAT LEGAL?
Well it isn't. Many people have attempted to bring these nasty people to justice - even the local Special Branch looked into it, but because the old boy is now deceased, the case was dropped. But I've not forgotten and soon will be REOPENING the case myself...
Out of the Frying Pan...
Ultimately - due to their own laziness and that clearly they were out-of-their depth, or perhaps distance themselves from the aforementioned skullduggery, the previous owners sold the site in Aug 2021 - To a new set of Pikey's from Staffordshire...
Into The FIre...
These new owners had new plans for the site. But in order to accomplish their grand 'Five Star' site plan, they would end-up evicting FORTY people, via the Section 21 process; some like myself, long-term occupants and in many ways vulnerable. They have gutted this site, bulldozed inter-connecting pockets of grass/hedge/shrubbery, mawled most of the trees, or removed them, all to create this bland, featureless (as we see above...) and natureless site. Walls and fences are being removed - the owners now dictating to the PH Owner-occupiers that they will have to remove their hedges/walls/fences/out-buildings and everyone has been forced to undergo an increase in electricity charges, due to a change of metering; that was undertaken by the same electrician employed by the previous owners; that had previously perjured himself in court, by swearing that he had carried-out EICR inspections, when clearly he hadn't.
The 'redevlopment' of this site, has been 'lubricated' by the County Council and the local (Tory) MP - including all those evictions, that clearly NO ONE CARED ABOUT, least of all the COUNCIL, MP, or new owners. Who have now, essentially ruined this community and evironment. I used to have a lovely wild patch of fuschia, hydrangea, bamboo and ash saplings, with raspberries, blackberries, rose hips and box... All that remains is my precious Cornish Palm... The rest, all dug up and burned.
But these morons have shot themselves in the foot by doing all this and this applies to all these Park Home sites, that are open plan... (that look more like holiday parks, or even Gulags, or miltary barracks...). Over the next decade, especially here in the South-West - the weather is going to seriously intensify. Summers will be hotter... Winters will produce more high winds and rain, direct from the Atlantic. When the trees were fuller along the western border of the site, along with the shrubs and trees dotted within the grounds, the fences, the walls, all afforded vital protection from the prevailing weather... And at an elevation of nearly 200 meters asl, it gets very windy up here. In fact, the idiots decided to move a static during a - widely reported - force nine gale... In so doing, gusts of up to 90 mph blew away my shed, that had survived many winters on site.
With open plan housing also comes - higher energy bills,lower thermal efficiency. The way these faux-bungaloes are aligned, they will catch the prevailing sou-westerlies in the face and not especially orientated for the most efficient use of roof-solar installations.
BASICALLY - IT IS ALL ABOUT GREED AND LAZINESS, with these people and their rules are outrageous.
I am curently going through a very traumatic (of my entire life) time. We have just had a major family tragedy occur, which mentally has effected both myself and those I care and love the most; these HEARTLESS bastards have essentially DESTROYED my life. I will lose my income, I am being forced to leave my loved-ones and the county that I've worked and lived in most of my adult life. Why? BECAUSE THERE IS A DIRE SHORTAGE of SOCIAL HOUSING IN CORNWALL and rents are pitched far-too high...
I will be writing an article about all this, in much greater detail than I've mentioned here... Suffice to say... Park Homes might be okay, if you own your own plot of land and can then decide how you wish to live... As for Park Home sites - AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE if you don't want to get scammed/ripped-off/treated like third class citizens or worse, or value your right to peace and privacy.
Park Home estates do not have an especially good track record. Especially those owned by environmentally ignorant pikey's.
Sorry to hear about your trouble, but you've probably saved many from a similar fate, including myself: I was thinking of going the park home route too, but I certainly don't want to risk living under more tyranny.
Gotta love the accent
You must, must, must make sure the site has a residential licence and just a 12 month holiday licence
Sounds good. Thanks
My concern is the service charges would be controlled by the service keeping putting the fee increased to the Park home residents
If the park owner done this, people would just move their homes away/sell them/negatively review them. Always to due diligence when choosing a park to move to. It is better to hire someone with experience, like myself, to oversee your transaction.
Hi do you have these in England?
Interesting❗
You've not touched on the subject of all year living and if even allowed on the sites?
These are all year round living, full time residential parks.
I'd love to live in one of those trailers you see in America, but the UK government would never let trailer/park home parks become a thing because it puts too many services companies out of business.
They already are a thing and are getting more popular. The government still makes money via Council Tax. They will not, of course, get stuff like stamp duty, as no land is transferring hands.
But the park fees, the owners jack them up whenever they want!
They tend to just rise with inflation. The owner I work with says it is about 5% raise every year. The park owners are business people and want to retain their residents and park's reputation. You will get bad eggs, like you do everywhere.
How would mail work? Would it just got straight to your home or like a collection point??
Every home has its own address registered with the Post Office, Council and electorate roll as normal. It's the same as any bricks and mortar, in that sense!
Twin unit Omar park home down here in the South of England are selling for nearly £300,000
Tallslimguy wow that’s outrageous
There are second hand ones in Ayrshire near Glasgow going for £250,000. All depends on demand.
Hi can you rent on these parks as we are retired with dwindling savings
Unfortunately not. Some parks you can but not the ones I am working on behalf of.
park homes don't they have service charges though which are hard to afford
Mobile homes rote and then devalue at a very very fast rate!! the contained park always hold great power over you!!! its a no no!!
Yeh until the owner sells the land out from under you and you are sitting there in a home for which you paid mega bucks and can't staybin the park!
I thought you weren’t allowed to permanently live in them? I googled it and it said no. If u can then I’m moving ASAP lol.
All parks are different
You can indeed. Residentially licensed homes, you can stay all year round. Holiday parks usually have rules in their licence.
Hi love your presentation.. cant get my head around one thing though.. these homes do come at a fraction in terms of price compared to a bungalow.. whats the main difference that causes the price to be so low?
Take a wild guess.
quality??
You don't buy the land, you lease the land. The actual buildings themselves aren't the expensive part of buying a bungalow, it's usually the plot that has the value. Park homes are a leasehold, so it is more affordable.
Beware you never own the land check out thousands of horror stories, Please don't get sucked in.
Can you actually live in a park home or do you have to live there temporarily for a certain period of time?
If you look for a residential park, it's all year round. There are many! Holiday parks are the ones that close.
Is there park homes for younger people?
There are. Many parks have no age restrictions, it is down to what the owner of the park says.
What about depreciation?
Keep it in good condition, upgrade the bathrooms/kitchen over the years, new floors/redecorate, do some landscaping and it will hold its value depending on local market conditions. Many people will buy a park home then let it fall to ruin over the years and wonder why it is "depreciated". It will naturally depreciate more than a bricks and mortal property would, but it doesn't necessarily need to.
You can't compare a caravan with a brick and mortar home (but we know why you say that)
Park fee's are expensive £3000 £4000 a year
Park fee's what? Park fees, plural. Why the apostrophe?
can you live in a static van on a park home site?
The licence tends to demand a certain standard of insulation etc, and statics tend to have lower, as they're not made for permanent living.
Can anyone tell me are these homes wind bruff
What do you mean?
Will they blow away at high wind over 80mph?
Don't really care about community I want my own space
Cool. Many people do like to live in a friendly community. It's certainly not a bads thing!
Leasehold.
Yeah park fees are over priced, come charging for "gate" fees that's if its opened all years... there isn't that much in the price difference to private rental apartment's and houses
There are no private rentals in Scotland for close to £150/month. Cheapest come at about £350/month, just to rent a low end flat. Even renting a low end room is about £250-300. To rent a house, you are talking £450-3000. Most flats, if you own them, will also have a charge of £30-200/month depending on what facilities you have. The £150/month for a secure, looked after, staffed residential park and ground rent is actually pretty good.
A. J. Ferguson do you have any in England not Scotland?
Also consider many flats in UK are buildings. People living on top of another with no patio or small plot for gardening.
You will also most likely live with young people with kids especially teenagers! Oy vey!
So the fees as long as reasonable covers security and gated with maintenance staff to check up on you. I think people need to check the budget, the customer ratings of each caravan lots but do consider that security and safety is a win when you’re of age.
@@alanfergusonestates totally agree , living in my new park home is going to save me over £500 a month on rent and lower council tax, after paying the site fee.
Apartment's what? Apartments, plural. Why the apostrophe?
Somebody likes the sound of their own voice
Sorry!
Buy a poor quality park home - lol.