The 10% Site Owner Commission: Justified or outdated?

Hi folks. It is the age-old debate in the park home world: the maximum 10% commission that site owners are legally entitled to take when we sell our homes on the open market.

Some argue that it is an absolutely essential source of income for site owners to keep the park roads, lighting, and communal infrastructure maintained. Others feel it is an incredibly unfair tax on our own property investments, especially given the rising value of park homes.

What are your thoughts? Do you see both sides of the coin, or do you think the government needs to step in to reduce or abolish it entirely?

Just to put the value of this 10% commission into perspective regarding site income...

Let's take a modest £100,000 park home paying a £200 monthly pitch fee. When that home sells, the site owner pockets £10,000 instantly.

If they had to rely purely on the new CPI rules to generate that same £10,000 in extra revenue, how long would they have to wait? Assuming a standard 2.5% inflation rate, the pitch fee only goes up by £60 in the first year. Even factoring in compound inflation, it would take a site owner nearly 17 years of collecting CPI increases to generate the same £10,000 they get from a single sale today.

It really highlights why the management fights so hard to justify keeping the commission structure!