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JANUARY 2025 PARK HOME AND HOLIDAY LIVING

 

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Welcome
Editor Alex Melvin introduces your exciting new January 2025 issue…

Buying a park home
Essential buying advice, legal help, plus specialist industry names to contact

Talking points
Andrew Jenkinson reflects on the number of park home owners who also own,
or want to own, a touring caravan…

Parks
Residential Park of the Year 2024: the winner
It’s that time of year again when we announce the results of our Residential Park of the Year award…

Getting fit for 2025!
Park home resident Peter Jones explains why he and his wife, Kim, along with friends, have joined the local gym…

Let’s move to Hertfordshire
Close to London, yet surrounded by beautiful countryside, Hertfordshire is also full of fantastic residential parks…

New Forest delight!
Sue Hollingshead explores Church Farm Close Park, located in the beautiful Hampshire countryside alongside the New Forest National Park and close to the historic city of Southampton

On the waterfront
Sue Hollingshead finds out more about Waterfront Living at Upton Lake, a unique development of floating homes, surrounded by water and scenic countryside…

Evergreen fingers
After scooping Quickmove Properties’ coveted Gardener of the Year award for 2024, June and Phillip Davison were delighted. Andrew Jenkinson learns the secrets of their success…

‘It’s a unique and wonderful lifestyle!’
Here’s your chance to find out why others chose to change their lives and made their dream retirement move into a park home

Homes
2025 new model homes – an introduction
As we start to look forward to the 2025 season, we run through the best of the recently released new models in the park and leisure home marketplace…

Our A-Z of this season’s best new models
All you need to know about the latest season’s new and updated homes from all of the UK’s premier manufacturers in our essential A to Z…

Services
Legal: site rules
Barrister and mediator, Ibrahem Dulmeer, of Park Homes Law – parkhomeslaw.com – offers an introduction to site rules on residential parks

New year, new park home
Trust the experts! Quickmove Properties specialises in finding you the ideal park home, so why not leave the stress to them? We find out more…

Holiday
Buying a holiday home
All you need to know about the leisure home buying process

Holiday news
Three pages of updates from around the industry

Get set for Manchester!
We preview the Manchester Show, which returns on 16 to 19 Janaury

The Caravan & Motorhome Show 2024
Andrew Jenkinson reviews last October’s Caravan & Motorhome Show

Land, Leisure & Tourism Show 2024
Andrew Jenkinson reviews the recent Land, Leisure & Tourism Show, which took place at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre (NEC) from 6 to 7 November…

Keep your wits about you
Richard Webber investigates the depressingly ever-more-common phenomenon of travelling scams and offers advice on how
to avoid them…

Serenity in Suffolk
Sue Hollingshead discovers more about Broadlands Park and Marina, a stunning holiday park with a marvellous waterside setting overlooking Oulton Broad, in Suffolk

A true hidden gem
Richard Webber travels to the Staffordshire/Derbyshire border and enjoys a fantastic few days at Mayfield Snuggery…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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THE BUYER’S GUIDE 2024

 

Our 2024 Buyer’s Guide kickstarts the holiday season with insights from industry experts explaining why holiday park accommodation is better than ever this year, with a look behind the keyhole of several of the newest models holiday makers might expect to find at their target destination. For those thinking of buying a holiday home or lodge it has more advice and features on that very topic than ANY other previous issue, looking at what you can and cannot do in a holiday home, the difference between buying for residential or leisure use, and where to find expert advice if you need it.

Holiday Living’s Buyer’s Guide is FREE to read here!