Sell Your Static Caravan in Scotland

Scottish static caravan buyers: what actually sets the offer

Search for static caravan buyers in Scotland and you will be given a lot of confident figures by people who have not yet asked a single question about your caravan. A number only means something once it is built on specifics, and it saves a great deal of time to know which specifics matter before you speak to anybody at all.

The make, model and year. A Willerby, Swift, ABI, Atlas, Carnaby or Pemberton unit of the same age can sit in very different places on the resale scale, because build specification, insulation and layout all carry through into what the next owner will pay. Insulation matters more in Scotland than it does further south — a unit built to a higher thermal specification has a genuinely wider market here, because it can be used through more of the year.

Size and layout. Footprint, bedroom count and whether the unit is a twin or a lodge decide which parks can physically take it next. That is a question of onward demand rather than of condition, and it is often the single biggest swing factor in an offer.

Condition, described honestly. Damp, soft flooring, perished window or roof seals, tired furnishings, wind damage from an exposed pitch — none of these rule a caravan out. We buy any age and any condition, including units other buyers turn away. What matters is that the description matches the caravan, because an offer built on a wrong description is not really an offer, it is a renegotiation waiting to happen.

Where it sits and how we reach it. Access, hardstanding, whether the unit is on a private pitch or in a park’s letting fleet, and how much notice your park requires. Scotland’s geography makes this matter more than owners expect: a caravan on the Ayrshire coast, one above Aviemore and one on a single-track approach in Argyll present three genuinely different collection problems, and it is better to know about all three in advance than on the day.

Whether anything is still outstanding on it. Finance, unpaid pitch fees or an agreed park settlement all sit between you and a clean sale. None of them prevent the sale — they change the order in which things happen. Our guide to selling a static caravan with finance outstanding sets out how that is handled.

If you want to sanity-check a figure before speaking to anyone, our guides on what a static caravan is actually worth, how to value a static caravan and static caravan values in 2026 are written to be read before you commit to anything. A static caravan valuation costs nothing and carries no obligation.

Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders

South-west Scotland is the part of the country we are asked about most often, and it is also the part where owners most frequently tell us they could not find a buyer who would travel. The run from Gretna and Annan through Dumfries, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbright and Newton Stewart down to Stranraer and the Rhins carries a substantial number of holiday parks, many of them long-established, and a good proportion of their owners live in Cumbria, Lancashire or the north-east of England rather than in Scotland at all.

That cross-border pattern is the defining feature of the market here. It means two things in practice. First, a caravan in Dumfries and Galloway usually has a wider onward market than its location suggests, because it is within practical reach of both the Scottish and the northern English trade. Second, owners in this area are often quoted poorly by buyers who treat anything past Carlisle as remote. It is not remote — it is closer to us than a good deal of the Highlands, and collection from the south-west is entirely routine.

The Borders behave similarly. Parks around Peebles, Selkirk, Jedburgh, Kelso, Coldstream and Eyemouth sit within easy reach of both Edinburgh and Northumberland, and they tend to hold their values well because of it.

We collect from across Dumfries and Galloway and the Borders, including Dumfries, Annan, Gretna, Lockerbie, Moffat, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbright, Gatehouse of Fleet, Newton Stewart, Stranraer, Portpatrick, Peebles, Galashiels, Kelso and Eyemouth. If your caravan sits just over the border, our Cumbria and Lake District pages cover that side.

Fife, East Lothian and West Lothian: the Forth coast

The coastline either side of the Firth of Forth carries one of the densest concentrations of static caravan owners in Scotland, and it is a market with its own character.

East Lothian runs from Musselburgh out through Longniddry, Aberlady, Gullane, North Berwick and Dunbar. It is prime holiday territory within half an hour of Edinburgh, and pitch fees reflect that. Owners here are frequently Edinburgh residents who bought a caravan as a weekend base rather than as an annual holiday, which changes the calculation when they come to sell — the caravan is often lightly used and in better condition than its age implies.

Fife covers a much wider spread, from the industrial west around Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy out to the East Neuk villages of Elie, Anstruther, Crail and Pittenweem, and up the coast to St Andrews. The East Neuk parks are among the most sought-after in Scotland and units there tend to be well specified.

West Lothian has fewer holiday parks of its own, and most of the enquiries we receive from Livingston, Bathgate, Linlithgow and Broxburn are about caravans sited elsewhere — commonly on the Ayrshire coast, in Fife, or across at Loch Lomond.

All three are straightforward to collect from and all three are within our normal working area. If you are in one of them and your caravan is somewhere else entirely, that is not a problem — see the section below on selling from a distance.

Edinburgh, Glasgow and the central belt: selling when you live in the city

A large share of the people who contact us about a Scottish caravan do not live anywhere near it. They live in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Falkirk, Dundee, Paisley or Livingston, and the caravan sits an hour or two away on the Ayrshire coast, at Loch Lomond, in Perthshire or up at Aviemore.

That is an entirely ordinary situation and it changes very little about the process, but it raises two questions worth answering plainly.

Does it matter that the caravan is not where I am? No. We deal with the park directly, and the caravan’s location determines the collection, not your home address. What matters is that we know which park it is on and what that park requires by way of notice and access.

Do I have to travel to be there? Generally not. Most sales complete without the owner making a trip, provided the park is content to give access and the paperwork is in order. The documents you need to sell a static caravan covers what is required.

This is worth stating clearly because a fair number of central-belt owners delay selling for a season or more on the assumption that the distance makes it complicated. It does not, and a caravan that sits unsold through a Scottish winter usually costs its owner a further year of pitch fees for nothing at all.

Ayrshire, Argyll and the west coast

Ayrshire is the busiest static caravan market in Scotland by some distance. The coastal strip from Largs and Saltcoats down through Ayr, Prestwick, Maidens, Girvan and Ballantrae holds a large number of parks, several of them very substantial, and there is a genuine second-hand market rather than a handful of isolated sales. Craig Tara, Sandylands, Sundrum and the Turnberry-area sites all sit within this stretch, and we are asked about all of them regularly.

Because turnover is high, Ayrshire units generally move well, and owners here have more options than they often realise. If a park has told you that selling on site is the only route, it is worth reading trader versus park — which pays more? before agreeing to anything.

North and west of that, Argyll and Bute is a different proposition. Parks around Loch Lomond, Arrochar, Inveraray, Oban, Dunoon, Tarbert and Campbeltown are smaller, more scattered, and often on tighter sites with awkward approaches. That affects how a collection is planned, not whether we come. Tell us about single-track approaches, gradients, ferry crossings or seasonal restrictions at the first conversation and it gets built into the arrangement rather than discovered on the day.

Aberdeen, Angus, Perthshire and the north-east

The east of Scotland from Dundee northwards is a quieter market than Ayrshire but a steady one, and it is the area where we most often find owners have been told nobody will travel to them.

Angus and the Tayside coast — Carnoustie, Arbroath, Montrose and the Perthshire parks inland around Blairgowrie, Pitlochry and Dunkeld. Perthshire in particular carries a good number of long-established parks with a high proportion of lodge and twin-unit stock.

Aberdeenshire and Moray — Stonehaven, Aberdeen itself, Peterhead, Fraserburgh, Banff, Elgin and the Moray coast. Values here are shaped less by tourism than in the west, and a well-maintained unit on a Moray coast park is often worth more than owners expect once it is valued for the wider trade rather than for a local buyer.

The Highlands — Aviemore, Inverness, Nairn, Fort William, Ullapool and the far north. These are the hardest parks to sell from privately, simply because the pool of local buyers is small. That is precisely the situation where a specialist buyer is worth more than a private sale, because our onward market is national rather than local and distance is our problem to solve rather than yours.

What owning a static caravan in Scotland actually costs

Owners are rarely given the full annual figure before they buy, and it is usually the reason a caravan eventually goes up for sale. It is worth setting out honestly, because understanding the running cost is what tells you whether selling is the right decision or simply the easiest one.

Pitch fees are the largest single item and vary widely across Scotland. Coastal Ayrshire, East Lothian and the East Neuk generally sit above inland and Highland sites, and a park with a sea view or a premium position will charge for it. Fees are reviewed annually and increases have outpaced general inflation on many parks in recent years.

Site rates, water and drainage are usually billed separately and are easy to forget when estimating.

Gas and electricity are a bigger line in Scotland than in most of England, for the obvious reason. A caravan used through the shoulder seasons on an exposed Scottish pitch costs meaningfully more to heat than the same unit in the south, and a poorly insulated older unit costs more again.

Insurance is a requirement on virtually every park, and coastal exposure, wind and flood risk all feed into the premium. Our guide to static caravan insurance covers what the cover actually needs to include.

Winterising and maintenance is the item most often underestimated, and in Scotland it is not optional. Draining down properly, protecting pipework, checking seals and roof coverings before the weather turns, and dealing with wind damage afterwards all recur every year. Skipping a winterisation is one of the most expensive false economies in caravan ownership.

Depreciation is the invisible cost. It is not billed to you, but it is real, and on a newer unit it will usually exceed every other line on this list combined.

Our full breakdown of static caravan running costs works through each of these with figures. If the annual total has crept past what the caravan gives you back in use, that is a legitimate reason to sell, and five signs it is time to sell is a reasonable sense-check.

Thinking of buying a static caravan in Scotland rather than selling?

A good number of people researching the Scottish caravan market are looking at buying, not selling, and they are usually trying to work out whether the numbers a park has quoted them are reasonable. We are a trade buyer rather than a park, so we have no interest in talking anyone into a purchase — which perhaps makes the following more useful than it would be from a sales office.

The advertised price and the total cost are different numbers. Ask for the pitch fee, the site rates, the insurance requirement, the utility arrangement and any connection or siting charges in writing before committing to anything. In Scotland, ask specifically about the winter closure period and whether you are charged pitch fees through it — most parks charge for twelve months and open for ten or eleven.

Ask about the age-off policy on day one. Most parks will not allow a caravan to remain on site past a certain age. That figure determines how long your ownership can last and it is the single most important number in the agreement. Our guides to static caravan age-off policies and holiday park age-off rules explain how they work in practice.

Understand what happens at the end. Ask what the park will do when you want to sell, whether they charge commission, and whether you are permitted to sell to an outside buyer at all. Selling without park commission covers that question specifically.

Look at what the unit will be worth in five years, not today. Depreciation on static caravans is steep in the early years. Static caravan values in 2026 gives a realistic picture, and how to sell your static caravan sets out what the exit actually involves.

None of this is an argument against buying a caravan in Scotland. It is an argument for buying one with the exit already understood.

Age-off, weather and the Scottish coast

Two things end most Scottish caravan ownerships, and neither is a change of heart.

The first is the park’s age-off policy. A caravan reaches the age at which the park will no longer keep it on site, the owner is given notice, and a decision has to be made fairly quickly. Owners in this position often assume the caravan is now worth nothing and that the park’s offer is the only one available. Neither is usually true. We buy caravans well past typical park age limits, because a unit that no longer suits one park frequently suits another, and because the trade values older units differently from the park that wants the pitch back.

The second is weather. Scotland is hard on caravans, and harder on the west coast and the northern isles than anywhere else in the UK. Sustained wind loading, driven rain and salt work on the external envelope year after year. Roof seams, window seals and door frames go first, and damp follows. A caravan showing its age this way is still perfectly saleable to us — getting rid of an old static caravan covers the situation where an owner has been told the unit has no value at all.

The practical point for both: the earlier you ask, the more options you have. An owner who contacts us when the age-off letter arrives has considerably more room than one who waits until the deadline.

More Scottish questions, answered

Which companies buy static caravans in Scotland?

Very few specialist trade buyers cover the whole of Scotland properly. Many will quote for the central belt and Ayrshire and decline anything beyond it, which is why Highland and Dumfries and Galloway owners so often report being unable to get a serious offer. We buy across the whole country, including the north, the west coast and the islands by arrangement, and the offer is assembled the same way wherever the caravan sits.

Do you buy privately owned second-hand caravans, or only from parks?

Both. Most of what we buy comes directly from private owners rather than from park operators, and you do not need the park’s permission to talk to us. If you also run or manage a site, our page for park operators covers multiple-unit and letting-fleet purchases.

Does Scottish law change how a static caravan sale works?

Not materially. A static caravan is personal property throughout the UK and is transferred by bill of sale rather than by conveyancing, so the Scottish property system does not come into it. What can differ is your pitch agreement, which is a contract with the park — read what it says about notice, commission and permitted sales, because that is the document that governs your position.

Will you collect from the Highlands, the Hebrides, Orkney or Shetland?

Yes to the Highlands as a matter of routine. Island collections are arranged case by case because of ferry logistics, but they are done, and being on an island does not mean your caravan is unsaleable. Get in touch and we will tell you plainly what is involved.

What if my caravan has damp or storm damage?

We buy it. Damp, soft flooring, failed seals and wind damage are ordinary on an exposed Scottish pitch and none of them stop a sale. Describe the caravan as it actually is — an accurate description produces an offer that holds, and an optimistic one produces an offer that has to be revisited.

Do you buy lodges and twin units in Scotland?

Yes. Lodges, twin units and residential-specification units are bought on the same basis as standard statics. Lodges are proportionally more common on Perthshire, Highland and Loch Lomond sites than on the Ayrshire coast, and they are valued differently, so tell us the specification when you get in touch.

Can I part-exchange instead of selling outright?

Often, yes. Part-exchanging a static caravan explains when it makes sense and when a straight sale is the better outcome.

Who buys Willerby and Swift caravans in Scotland?

We do, and they are among the most common units we handle. See selling a Willerby and selling a Swift. We also buy ABI, Atlas, Carnaby and Pemberton units, among others.

How do I start?

Send us the details through the free valuation form or call 07770 603800 and speak to Sean or Chris directly. There is no charge and no obligation, and you will have a figure back within 24 hours. If you would rather read about us first, our customer reviews and frequently asked questions are a reasonable place to start, and the regions we cover shows where else we work.