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What will this home really cost?

The purchase price is the start. Put in the site fee and what you expect it to rise by, plus the running costs, and the table works out the cost for year one and over five years. Every figure is an estimate; change any of them.

Prefill the site fee from a park

Uses the park's published fee and this year's rise. Parks that don't publish fees leave the estimate as it is.

North Denes Caravan Park doesn't publish its site fees, so the fee and rise are still estimates. Change them when you have a written quote from the park.

The home

Purchase price

What you will pay for the home, including siting and connection.

Expected depreciation

Holiday homes lose value each year. 10% to 20% a year is common; ask the park what similar homes resell for.

% a year

The pitch

Site fee

This year's pitch fee, before rates and utilities.

Annual rise

How much the fee has gone up each year. Use the park's own history where it publishes one.

% a year

Running costs, a year

Rates

Insurance

Utilities

Electricity, gas and water.

Upkeep, a year

Gas safety check

Winterisation

Draining down and recommissioning each year.

The estimate updates as you type.

Five-year estimate

Illustrative estimate for a £45,000 home. Every figure is an estimate you can change; none is a quote.
Cost	Year 1	5 years
Site feerising 6.5% a year, your figure	£5,240	£29,835
Depreciationestimate, 15% a year of the remaining value	£6,750	£25,033
Rates, insurance, utilitiesestimate, held flat for five years	£2,310	£11,550
Gas checks and winterisingestimate, held flat for five years	£420	£2,100
Totalestimate, before the purchase price	£14,720	£68,518

How we work it outThe site fee compounds at the annual rise. Depreciation comes off the remaining value each year, so the five-year figure is what the home has lost, not five times year one. Running costs and upkeep are held flat, which understates them. Site fees explained says what to ask the park for.