Sell Your Willerby Static Caravan

Why Choose The Caravan Swap Shop to Buy Your Willerby?

Willerby is the UK’s largest and best-known static caravan manufacturer — and we buy Willerby caravans every single week. Whether your model is a recent luxury lodge or a well-loved classic from the 1990s, we know exactly what it’s worth and can make you a fair, fast offer with no fees and no commission.

• Free valuation within 24 hours
• No commission, no hidden fees — ever
• We handle all collection and park liaison
• Payment by bank transfer on collection day
• We buy from every holiday park in the UK

Willerby Models We Buy

We buy all Willerby models regardless of age or condition, including:

• Willerby Salcombe
• Willerby Skye
• Willerby Horizon
• Willerby Granada
• Willerby Richmond
• Willerby Solace
• Willerby Avonmore
• Willerby Westmorland
• Willerby Sierra
• Willerby Aspen
• All older models from the 1990s and early 2000s

Don’t see your model? We almost certainly still buy it — contact us for a free valuation.

About Willerby Static Caravans

Founded in 1946 and based in Hull, East Yorkshire, Willerby is the UK’s largest manufacturer of static holiday homes. (Correcting our own record: this page previously gave 1945. Willerby dates its own founding to 1946, when Walter Allen and John Richardson began building caravans in the village of Willerby; the business moved its focus to static holiday homes in 1973.) They’ve produced well over 100,000 caravans and supplied holiday parks right across the UK. Their caravans are renowned for solid build quality, practical layouts, and strong brand recognition — which means they tend to hold their value better than lesser-known brands.

Even older Willerby models like the Granada and Sierra remain in demand for export and refurbishment, so don’t assume an older Willerby has no value — it very often does.

Factors That Affect Your Willerby’s Value

• Model and year — Newer and larger models typically command higher prices
• Condition — Damp, damage, or general wear reduces value but won’t stop us buying
• Park age limits — If your park requires removal, we can still help
• Location — Coastal and popular park locations increase demand
• Upgrades — Double glazing, central heating, and decking can add value

Sell Your Willerby in 4 Easy Steps

1. Contact us — Call 07770 603800 or fill in our free valuation form
2. Get your valuation — We’ll come back to you within 24 hours
3. Accept & agree a date — No obligation; take as long as you need
4. We collect & pay — We handle all park liaison and pay on collection day

FAQs — Selling Your Willerby

Will you buy my Willerby if it has damp?

Yes. Damp is one of the most common issues we see and it won’t stop us buying. We factor condition into our offer, but we won’t walk away because of it.

My park says my Willerby must be removed — can you help?

Absolutely. We deal with exactly this situation regularly and liaise directly with the park on your behalf. Get in touch and we’ll guide you through the whole process.

My Willerby is over 20 years old — is it still worth anything?

Often yes. Older Willerby models, particularly the Granada and Sierra, have value for export, parts, or refurbishment. Contact us and we’ll be straight with you about what we can offer.

How Much Is My Willerby Static Caravan Worth?

The honest answer is that no two Willerbys are worth the same, even when they are the same model and the same year. Two 2012 caravans sitting on neighbouring pitches can be several thousand pounds apart in value, and the difference usually comes down to things that have nothing to do with the badge on the front. If you want a figure rather than a range, the fastest route is a free 24-hour valuation — but it helps to understand what we are actually looking at when we price a Willerby.

Why Willerbys tend to hold their value

Willerby is the largest and most widely recognised name in British holiday homes, and that recognition is worth real money on resale. When a park, a dealer or a private buyer sees a Willerby, they already know roughly what they are getting: parts are easy to source, layouts are familiar, and the build is well understood by fitters and transport companies. Lesser-known makes can be perfectly good caravans and still take longer to move, because the next buyer has to be persuaded before they will even look. That liquidity premium is the single biggest reason a Willerby usually prices above an equivalent obscure brand of the same age.

The flip side is that the Willerby name alone will not carry a caravan that has been neglected. Brand recognition sets the ceiling; condition sets where in that range you land. For the wider picture on how static caravans depreciate across all makes, our guide on what your static caravan is worth and the detail in static caravan values for 2026 are the places to start.

The seven things we actually price

When we value a Willerby, we work through the same short list every time:

• Age and model. Not just the year, but where that model sat in the range when it was new. An entry-level unit from 2018 can be worth less than a top-of-range unit from 2013.
• Size and layout. Width matters more than most owners expect. A 12ft or 14ft wide unit has a far larger pool of buyers than a 10ft, and three-bedroom layouts move faster than two.
• Damp and water ingress. The one issue that changes a number materially. It rarely stops a sale — see the FAQ above — but it is priced in honestly rather than glossed over.
• Heating and glazing. Double glazing and central heating are close to a requirement for onward sale on most parks now. A unit without both has a smaller market.
• Whether it can stay where it is. A caravan that can be sold on its existing pitch is worth more than the identical caravan that has to come off. See what happens when the park says your caravan is too old.
• Location. Coastal and high-demand parks pull prices up. Remote inland sites add transport cost, which comes out of the figure.
• Condition of the decking, skirting and steps. Cosmetic, but they are the first thing the next buyer sees, and they are expensive to replace.

If you want to work through the same reasoning yourself before you speak to anyone, our how to value a static caravan guide and the static caravan valuation page set out the method in full.

Willerby Model Guide — What Your Model Tells Us

Owners often ask which Willerby models we buy, expecting there to be a list we work from. There is not: we buy the whole range, and the model name is a starting point rather than a verdict. What the model does tell us is roughly which generation of build, glazing and insulation standard we are looking at, and that in turn tells us who the next buyer is likely to be.

Recent and current ranges

Newer Willerbys — the Impression, Clearwater, Vogue, Manor, Skye, Solace, Salcombe and Horizon among them — are the units most likely to be resold onto a park pitch rather than moved off site. They are typically fully double glazed and centrally heated as standard, often 12ft or 14ft wide, and frequently come with decking already in place. For these, the biggest single value question is whether the park will accept a change of ownership on the existing pitch, because that determines whether the caravan is competing against other sited units or against the transport market.

The middle generation

Models such as the Rio, Salsa, Vacation, Winchester, Westmorland, Richmond, Mistral, Herald, Lyndhurst and Cottingham sit in the broad middle of the market and are the units we see most often. They are old enough that some parks apply age limits to them and new enough that they are in strong demand from private buyers, from parks refreshing their own hire fleets, and from owners looking for a first holiday home. This is the sweet spot where a well-maintained caravan and a tired one of the same year genuinely do diverge by thousands.

Classic Willerbys from the 1990s and early 2000s

This is where owners most often assume the answer is nothing, and most often turn out to be wrong. Granada, Sierra, Bermuda, Leven, Boston, Isis, Linwood, Brockenhurst and the other classic ranges still have a market — for export, for refurbishment, for site accommodation and for parts. A 1998 Willerby in fair order is not worth what it cost, but it is very rarely worth zero, and it is almost always worth more than the removal quote the park has handed you. If you have been told your older Willerby is only fit for scrapping, read how to get rid of an old static caravan before you agree to anything.

If your model is not named anywhere on this page, that is not a signal. Willerby has produced well over a hundred named ranges across eight decades and we do not keep a list of the ones we will not buy, because there is not one. Tell us the model and the year and we will tell you where it sits.

Who Buys Willerby Caravans — And What Each Route Really Pays

There are three realistic buyers for a used Willerby, and they pay quite differently. Knowing which one you are talking to is worth more than any negotiating tactic.

The park

Selling back to your own park is the least effort and usually the least money. Parks are buying to resell at a margin, often with a part-exchange against a newer unit they want to place on your pitch, and the figure quoted frequently arrives net of a commission you were not expecting. Commission on a park-brokered sale commonly runs at 15% or more of the sale price. Our page on selling a static caravan without park commission explains where that money goes, and selling to a trader versus through the park compares the two routes on price, speed and risk.

Privately

A private sale can achieve the highest headline number, and it is the slowest and least certain of the three. You are dependent on the park agreeing to the incoming buyer, you handle viewings and paperwork yourself, and deals collapse at the last minute more often than owners expect. It suits people with a desirable, well-presented, recent Willerby on a popular park and time to wait. It suits almost nobody who needs the pitch cleared by a deadline. If you are going down this road, read what documents you need to sell a static caravan first — missing paperwork is the most common reason a private sale falls over.

A trade buyer

This is what we are. A trade buyer prices the caravan on what it can be moved on for, quotes a firm figure, and takes on the transport, the park liaison and the risk. You get certainty and speed instead of the theoretical top of the market. Whether that trade-off is right for you depends entirely on your circumstances — and we would rather you understood it than found out afterwards. We set out how every major UK buyer compares, including ourselves, in our independent comparison of UK static caravan buyers.

What makes a Willerby buyer trustworthy

The searches that bring people to this page are often some version of trusted Willerby caravan buyers, and it is a fair thing to be looking for. Four things are worth checking on anyone, including us:

• Is the valuation free, and is it genuinely without obligation, or is there a fee if you walk away?
• Does the quoted figure change on collection day? A firm offer should be firm.
• Who handles the park? A buyer who leaves you to negotiate the pitch handover has not taken the difficult part off your hands.
• Are the terms in writing before anything moves? See how it works and our customer reviews.

Selling a Used Willerby: What Actually Happens

The process is deliberately short, because a caravan sale that drags is a caravan sale that falls through. In practice it runs like this.

You tell us the model, the year, the park and anything you already know is wrong with it. Being upfront about damp or damage genuinely helps — it means the figure we quote is the figure that stands, rather than one that gets revised downwards when we arrive. We come back inside 24 hours with an offer. If you accept, we agree a collection date that suits you and the park, and we deal with the park ourselves from that point: the pitch handover, the site fees position, the paperwork.

Timescales vary mainly with the park rather than with us. A straightforward collection from a cooperative park can be done inside a week; a park with a slow office or a disputed fee balance takes longer. Our guide on how long it takes to sell a static caravan gives realistic ranges, and what happens when you sell to us walks through the whole thing step by step.

If there is finance outstanding on the caravan, that is routine rather than a problem — see selling a static caravan with outstanding finance. If you are moving up rather than out, part exchanging your static caravan is the relevant page.

Willerby Caravans and Park Age Limits

A large share of the Willerbys we buy come to us because of an age policy rather than because the owner wanted to sell. Most UK holiday parks operate a limit — commonly somewhere between 15 and 25 years, though it varies widely and is set by the park, not by law — after which a caravan must be replaced or removed. Owners are frequently told this with little notice and are quoted a removal and disposal cost at the same time.

Two things are worth knowing. First, the age limit applies to the pitch, not to the caravan: a unit that is too old for one park is often perfectly acceptable elsewhere, or has a second life away from the park network entirely. Second, an age-off caravan almost always has more value than the disposal quote implies, because the quote is priced as a cost to the park rather than as an asset to anyone else. We cover the whole subject in holiday park caravan age-off policies and static caravan age policies.

If you have had a letter, do not sign anything until you have a second figure to compare it against. It costs nothing to get one.

Where We Buy Willerby Caravans

We collect UK-wide, and Willerbys turn up everywhere because Willerby supplied everywhere — the factory is in Hull, and the East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire coasts are thick with them. The county pages below cover local parks, collection and the specifics of selling in each area:

• Yorkshire and the Humber: Yorkshire, Hull, Humberside, Filey
• Lincolnshire coast: Lincolnshire, Skegness
• East Anglia: Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, East Anglia
• North and north-west: Lancashire, Cumbria, Northumberland
• Wales and Scotland: North Wales, Scotland
• South and south-west: Kent, Dorset, Somerset, Cornwall

Not listed? The full regions index covers everywhere else, and we collect from parks we have never been to every week.

Willerby Compared With the Other Makes We Buy

One of the most common questions behind searches about static caravan makes is really a question about resale: which brands are easy to sell on, and which are hard. It is a reasonable thing to ask and the honest answer is less dramatic than the forums suggest. There are very few genuinely bad static caravan manufacturers still trading; there are plenty of caravans that were badly specified when new, or badly looked after since.

Where Willerby has an edge is volume and familiarity. Where the other major makes compete is on specific strengths — insulation, layout design, lodge-format units, or price when new. We buy all of them:

• ABI and Swift — Willerby’s closest competitors by volume, and comparably easy to move on.
• Atlas, Delta, Regal and Victory — strong regional followings and a steady resale market.
• Pemberton, Carnaby and Omar — higher-specification and lodge-format units, which price differently from standard caravans.
• Cosalt and BK Bluebird — no longer in production, which owners often read as worthless. It is not: both still sell, particularly for refurbishment.

If you own two caravans of different makes, or you are weighing a Willerby against another brand before you buy, the running-cost side of the decision is covered in our static caravan running costs guide and static caravan insurance guide.

More Questions About Selling a Willerby

Do you buy Willerby lodges and twin units as well as caravans?

Yes. Twin-unit and lodge-format holiday homes are part of what we do, and they are valued on the same basis — age, size, specification, condition and whether they can stay on the pitch. Transport is a bigger factor with twin units because they move in sections, so location weighs more heavily on the figure.

My Willerby is still on a park but I have stopped using it. Does that hurt the value?

Not in itself, but the two things that usually come with it do. An unused caravan tends to accumulate damp faster than an occupied one, because nothing is being heated or aired, and unpaid or part-paid site fees can complicate the handover. Neither is a barrier — we deal with both regularly — but it is better to sell before a second winter than after it. Our page on five signs it is time to sell covers this.

Will you buy a Willerby that has been vandalised or damaged by weather?

Yes. Storm damage, break-ins, flood and fire-damaged units are all things we look at. The figure will reflect the damage, but a damaged caravan is a repair job to us rather than a write-off, and it is nearly always worth more than a disposal quote.

Does the park have to agree before I sell my Willerby to you?

If the caravan is leaving the park, we deal with the park over access and the pitch handover, but you are selling your own property and you do not need their permission to do so. If the caravan is staying on its pitch and transferring to a new owner, that does require the park’s agreement, because they control who occupies the pitch. We will tell you which situation you are in when we speak.

How accurate is a valuation given over the phone?

More accurate than owners expect, provided the description is honest. Model, year, width, park, heating and glazing, and a straight account of the condition get us close. Photographs get us closer still. What moves a figure after the fact is almost always something that was not mentioned — usually damp.

Is a Willerby worth more than an equivalent caravan from another make?

Usually a little, and for the reason set out above: it is easier for the next buyer to say yes to. That premium is smaller than most owners assume, and it is comfortably outweighed by condition. A well-kept Atlas will beat a neglected Willerby of the same year every time.

Can you collect from a park that has told me I must use their approved contractor?

In most cases, yes. Parks can set reasonable conditions about access, timing and insurance for vehicles coming on site, and we meet those as a matter of course. What a park generally cannot do is require you to sell the caravan to them or dispose of it through them. If you have been told otherwise in writing, send it to us and we will look at it.

What is the quickest way to get a figure for my Willerby?

Call 07770 603800 or use the free valuation form. Have the model, year and park name to hand. We come back within 24 hours, the valuation costs nothing, and there is no obligation attached to it. If you would rather read more first, our FAQs cover the rest.