Can I swap my home for another on my park?

• Tuesday, 2 June 2009
• Kathleen Retourne
• 0 Comments

I’m thinking of swapping my park home with another home on my site. If I swap, am I still obliged to pay the site owner 10 per cent?

The swapping of park homes between occupiers, where no money changes hands, in relation to the 10 per cent commission, this is something of a grey area. In situations like these, site owners could potentially lose out on the commission they would get if the home was sold. Therefore, the site owner could make things very difficult in relation to the swap.
The agreement you have with the owner entitles you to station your mobile home on a particular pitch; the same applies to the other party you propose swapping with, therefore the origional agreements would need to be reassigned to the new owners of each mobile home and this can only be done with the permission of the site owner.
Whether or not he agrees to this is another issue as he will be faced with a difficult situation in that he has to formally approve the person taking over the mobile home; needless to say, he has already done this by virtue of the fact that they already live on the park.
It could be you who would have to come to an agreement with the site owner in relation to some sort of commission in order to agree to the reassignment of the written statements. Whichever way you look at it, each agreement will need to be formally reassigned for the swap to have any legal basis.
One thing you should know is the Mobile Homes Act 1983 makes no allowance for your proposal.

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