Selling a static caravan

You can usually sell a static caravan on a holiday park back to the park, privately to a buyer who keeps it on the same pitch, or privately to someone who moves it off the park. Your pitch licence agreement sets out which of these you can use and what the park charges for each, so read it before you advertise.

A static is sold with its pitch, which makes it a different market from touring caravans and motorhomes: the buyer is also taking on the park's rules and pitch fees, and the park has a say in the sale. A park home that someone lives in as their main home on a residential site is different again, and is covered at the end of this page.

Your routes

Advertising prices are what each company's own page showed on 29 September 2026, for private sellers. Park charges are not published anywhere central, so ask your park. If you sell privately, selling without being scammed covers taking payment safely.

What a holiday park can and can't do

Business Companion, the trading standards guidance for businesses, tells holiday park operators how consumer law applies to them. On selling, it says:

• The pitch licence agreement should explain how you can sell, when the park must be given first refusal, and how far it must be involved. Any costs should be clearly set out and reasonable.
• A park must not use the agreement to block a sale unfairly. Business Companion gives as examples refusing a private buyer the same terms and costs under their pitch licence, and running unreasonable checks on a private buyer, such as tougher requirements than the park sets for its own sales.
• A park that tells you at the point of sale it will buy back by reference to the Glass's Guide should explain that the buy-back may not include amenity value, such as a sea view, that was in the price you paid.
• The agreement can also cover giving the caravan to a family member, including after the owner dies. See selling a late parent's caravan.

The guidance does not cover residential parks under the Mobile Homes Act 1983.

Park homes on residential sites in England

If the home is a park home on a protected residential site in England, the Mobile Homes Act gives you the right to sell it on the open market, and the site owner can't insist on approving your buyer. GOV.UK sets out the steps:

1. Find a buyer and fill in the Buyer's Information Form, which gives them the key facts about the site, its rules and your agreement with the site owner.
2. If you owned the home before 26 May 2013, you and the buyer give the site owner a Notice of Proposed Sale. If the site owner has evidence the buyer doesn't meet the site rules, it has 21 days to apply to a tribunal for a refusal order. If it doesn't, you can go ahead. Owners who bought after 26 May 2013 skip this step.
3. Complete with the Assignment form. The buyer pays you 90% of the price, then has 7 days to pay the site owner its commission.

The commission is up to 10% of the sale price. The government's call for evidence on the reasons for it closed on 29 May 2026. It covered park homes in England under the Mobile Homes Act 1983, not holiday statics, which are sold under the pitch licence. When we checked on 30 September 2026, the government had not published its response.