Park Income and Depreciation

Pitch fees, caravan depreciation and the honest return

On a sunny viewing day a holiday park lodge can look like a pleasure and an income at once, and the difference between a good and a poor park investment only shows in the numbers, run honestly over a full year and the whole life of the asset. This book gives you that appraisal. It explains why the park's quoted letting income is the wrong starting point, where to find reliable figures for free, and how to close the wide gap between what a unit could earn and what it actually clears. The cost chapter sets out an unusually deep stack of structural and annual costs, including pitch fees and caravan depreciation. The appraisal is stress-tested for a bad season, voids and a rate rise. Two complete worked examples are taken all the way through, and the final chapter gives you a simple calculator for any park and the legal questions it cannot answer. Next in this series: “Site Licensing and Consumer Protection”.

What’s inside

• The only numbers that actually matter
• Where to find reliable local data for free
• Working out true income, not optimistic income
• The full cost stack nobody mentions
• Stress-testing for the bad season, the void and the rate rise
• A complete worked example, start to finish
• Your deal calculator, and the legal questions it cannot answer

Educational material only, not financial, legal or tax advice. Results are not typical and are not a guarantee of income. Freedom Property Academy LTD, registered in England and Wales.