Sell Your Static Caravan in Cornwall
The Caravan Swap Shop buys static caravans and holiday lodges throughout Cornwall — directly from owners, with no park involvement, no commission and payment typically within days of agreeing a price.
We cover the whole of Cornwall, including Newquay, St Ives, Padstow, Bude, Falmouth, Perranporth, Mevagissey and the Lizard Peninsula. Whether your caravan is sited on a holiday park or in storage, we want to hear from you.
Holiday Parks We Cover in Cornwall
Cornwall is home to hundreds of static caravan parks. We regularly purchase from sites near Newquay, St Ives, Bude, Padstow, Perranporth and Looe.
Free Valuation — No Obligation
We carry out free valuations based on real current market data. We buy all major brands — Willerby, Atlas, ABI, Swift, Omar, Pemberton, Carnaby, Tingdene and more — in any condition.
Why Sell to The Caravan Swap Shop?
As BH&HPA members with 45+ years’ combined experience working with Parkdean Resorts, Haven and Bourne Leisure, we offer:
- Free, no-obligation valuations
- Payment in days, not months
- No park fees or commissions
- Any make, age or condition considered
- Part exchange available
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you cover all areas of Cornwall?
Yes — we buy from parks and private land across the whole of Cornwall.
How quickly can you complete?
Most sales complete within 3–7 working days of agreeing a price.
Do I need to involve my park?
No. You can get a valuation without notifying your park. We’ll advise you once we understand your situation.
Sell your static caravan in Cornwall today. Call 07770 603800 or get a free online valuation.
Selling your static caravan across Cornwall
Wherever your holiday home is sited in Cornwall — Newquay, St Ives, Perranporth, Looe, Padstow and Bude — we make selling simple: a free 24-hour valuation, free collection arranged directly with your park, and payment by BACS in 7 to 14 days, with no fees and no park commission.
We buy right along the South Coast, so if you own elsewhere see our South Coast static caravan buyers page, or a neighbouring area: Devon, South Devon.
Cornwall — your questions answered
Do you buy older or damaged caravans in Cornwall? Yes. We buy any age and any condition, including caravans with outstanding finance and twin-unit lodges.
How quickly can you collect in Cornwall? Usually within days of agreeing a price, arranged directly with your park at no cost to you.
Cornwall static caravan buyers: how a real offer is put together
Search for Cornwall caravan buyers and you will find plenty of sites promising a “best price” before they know anything about your caravan. An offer that means something is built from a short list of specifics, and it is worth knowing what they are before you speak to anyone.
The make, model and year. A Willerby, Swift, ABI, Atlas, Pemberton or Carnaby unit of the same age can sit in very different places on the resale scale, because build spec, insulation and layout all carry into what the next owner will pay. If you know the model name, that alone shortens the conversation.
Size and layout. Footprint, bedroom count and whether the unit is a twin or a lodge change the pool of parks that can physically take it. A 40×13 two-bed moves differently from a 38×12 three-bed, and that is a demand question, not a condition question.
Condition, honestly described. Damp, soft floors, roof or window seal issues, storm damage, tired soft furnishings — none of these rule a caravan out. We buy any age and any condition, including units other buyers walk away from. What matters is that the description matches the caravan, because an offer built on a wrong description is not an offer, it is a negotiation waiting to happen on collection day.
Where it sits. Access, hardstanding, whether the unit is on a private pitch or a rental fleet, and how much notice the park needs. In Cornwall this matters more than in most counties, and we cover it in detail further down.
Whether anything is outstanding on it. Finance, unpaid pitch fees or an agreed park settlement all sit between you and a clean sale. They do not stop the sale — they change the order things happen in.
If you want to sanity-check the number before you talk to anyone, our guides on what a static caravan is actually worth and how a static caravan valuation is calculated walk through the same reasoning we use.
Where in Cornwall we buy
Cornwall’s holiday-park stock is spread along both coasts and inland, and we buy across all of it. On the north coast that means the parks around Bude, Widemouth Bay, Tintagel, Polzeath, Rock, Padstow, Newquay, Crantock, Holywell Bay, Perranporth, St Agnes, Portreath and Hayle. On the south coast, Looe, Polperro, Whitsand Bay, Mevagissey, Falmouth, Praa Sands, Mullion and the Lizard. Inland and mid-Cornwall, the parks around Wadebridge, Bodmin, Camborne and Redruth.
We are not a Cornwall-only buyer, and it would be misleading to pretend otherwise. We are a UK-wide trade buyer that covers Cornwall properly — which in practice means we do not need your park’s cooperation to make you an offer, and we do not need to find a retail buyer first before we can commit to one.
If your caravan is over the border, the neighbouring county pages are the right starting point: Devon, Somerset and Dorset, or the wider South West page.
“Will you really come all the way to Cornwall?” — the honest answer
It is the most common question we get from Cornish owners, and it is a fair one. Cornwall is the furthest county from us, and a lot of buyers quietly price that distance into their offer or decline once they hear the postcode.
We do not. Collection is free and UK-wide, and Cornwall is included in that without an adjustment for mileage. The reason we can do it is volume: we are a trade buyer moving units around the country continuously, so a Cornwall collection is part of a route rather than a special journey. What we do ask for is realistic notice, because a single-track lane in August and a single-track lane in February are two very different logistics problems.
Practical points that make a Cornish collection go smoothly:
- Access photographs are worth more than descriptions. A photo of the lane, the gate and the pitch approach tells us in seconds what a paragraph cannot.
- Peak-season access is genuinely harder. Many Cornish parks restrict large-vehicle movements in the school holidays. If your park has a movement window, tell us early and we will work to it.
- Overhead and width restrictions. Mature trees, stone gateposts and narrow bridges are common on Cornish parks and are the single most frequent cause of a rearranged collection.
- Who holds the keys. If the park office holds them and you live several hours away, say so at the start.
If timing is your main concern, how long it takes to sell a static caravan sets out the realistic sequence, and the documents you need covers what to have ready.
Selling a Cornish caravan with finance still outstanding
A large share of Cornwall’s newer park stock was bought on finance, often arranged through the park at the point of sale. If you still owe on the unit, you can still sell it — the balance simply has to be dealt with as part of the transaction rather than after it.
The first step is to ask your lender for a settlement figure in writing, valid to a stated date. That figure, not the original balance and not the monthly payment, is the number that matters. Once it is known, the sale is straightforward: the agreement is structured around clearing the finance so the caravan changes hands unencumbered.
Two things worth knowing. First, a settlement figure is time-limited, so a sale that drifts for weeks may need it re-issued. Second, if the caravan is worth less than the settlement figure — not unusual on a three-to-five-year-old unit bought at retail — the shortfall does not make the sale impossible, but you do need to know about it before you agree anything. Our selling a static caravan with outstanding finance page covers the mechanics in full.
Sea views, premium pitches and what actually transfers
Cornwall has some of the most sought-after pitches in the country, and owners are often told that a sea view is worth a large premium on resale. It is worth being precise about this, because it is where expectations and reality diverge most sharply.
A premium pitch raises what a park can charge the next owner for the siting. It does not attach to your caravan. When the unit leaves the pitch, the view stays with the pitch — which is why a park-brokered sale and a trade sale value the same caravan so differently. The park is selling a location; a trade buyer is buying a unit that has to work on a different park, possibly hundreds of miles away.
That is not an argument for either route. It is an argument for comparing them on the same basis: what reaches your bank account, after commission, after any pitch-fee period you are still liable for, and after any refurbishment the park expects. Our trader versus park sale comparison works through a realistic example, and selling without park commission explains where the commission actually goes.
Coastal exposure: what Cornwall’s weather does to a caravan’s value
Cornish pitches take more weather than almost anywhere else in England — salt-laden air on both coasts, driven rain, and gales that arrive from the Atlantic with little to slow them down. Over a decade that shows up in specific places, and knowing where helps you describe your caravan accurately.
Salt air attacks external fixings, window and door furniture, and the chassis underside. Wind-driven rain finds seal failures years before they would show on an inland park, which is why damp readings on exposed Cornish pitches are often worse than the caravan’s age would suggest. Decking, steps and balustrades weather faster and are frequently the first thing a buyer notices. UV and salt together fade external cladding unevenly, with the seaward elevation ageing visibly quicker than the sheltered side.
None of that stops us buying. It does mean an inspection-free “estimate” from a buyer who has never seen a Cornish park is worth very little. If you are weighing up whether to spend money on repairs first, our guide to getting the best price is honest about which jobs return their cost and which do not, and static caravan insurance covers where storm damage sits between an insurer and a resale value.
Age-off policies on Cornish parks
Most Cornish parks operate an age limit, commonly somewhere between 10 and 20 years, after which a caravan must be replaced or removed. Owners often only discover the exact terms of theirs when they try to sell, and the discovery can be expensive if the deadline is close.
Two things are worth doing now rather than later. Check your licence agreement for the stated age limit and how it is measured — year of manufacture, not year of siting, in most agreements. And be aware that a caravan approaching its park’s limit is worth more to a trade buyer than to a retail buyer on that park, because a trade buyer can move it to a park with a longer limit. That is the single most useful thing to understand about timing a sale. Our static caravan age-off policy and holiday park age-off pages set out the detail.
More Cornwall questions, answered
Do you buy static caravans on rental fleets in Cornwall?
Yes. Ex-hire units in Cornwall tend to have higher usage and more cosmetic wear than privately used caravans of the same age, and they are priced accordingly rather than declined. If you own a unit that has been in a park’s letting fleet, tell us — the usage history is relevant, not disqualifying.
My park says it will sell it for me. Should I let them?
You can, and for some owners it is the right answer. What matters is that you compare the two offers as net figures rather than headline ones. Ask the park, in writing, for the commission rate, who pays for any refurbishment or safety certification, how long the caravan stays on your pitch while it is marketed, and whether you remain liable for pitch fees during that period.
Do you buy lodges and twin units in Cornwall?
Yes, including twin-unit lodges. They are a smaller market with a shorter list of parks that can take them, so the conversation about where a lodge can go is more involved than it is for a standard single unit — but we buy them.
What if my caravan has damp or storm damage?
We buy it as it is. Damp, water ingress, storm damage to decking or cladding, and failed seals are all normal in Cornwall’s climate. Describe them accurately and the offer will reflect the caravan you actually own.
Can I part-exchange rather than sell outright?
Sometimes, depending on what you are moving to and where. Part-exchanging a static caravan explains when it works and when a clean sale is simpler.
Who buys Willerby caravans in Cornwall?
We do — Willerby is the most common make on Cornish parks and one of the makes we buy most often. See selling a Willerby static caravan, or the equivalent pages for Swift, ABI, Atlas, Pemberton, Carnaby, Delta, Regal, Victory, BK Bluebird, Cosalt and Omar.
What does it cost me to get an offer?
Nothing. The valuation is free, there is no obligation, and there is no park commission or hidden fee in what we do. If the number does not work for you, that is a perfectly good outcome and we will not chase you.
What will owning it cost me while I decide?
Pitch fees, insurance, rates, utilities and winterisation continue regardless of whether the caravan is on the market. Our guide to UK static caravan running costs sets out realistic 2026 figures, which is often the number that decides the question.