Beware of Buying Your Dream Retirement Homes

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We stumbled upon this article called We Were Sold Retirement Homes We Can’t Live In All Year. It’s by The Telegraph UK’s Sam Barker.

He reports on some unscrupulous property brokers and developers preying on retirees. Here’s a heartbreaking excerpt: 

Dozens of pensioners discovered their properties could not legally be lived in all year round, and that they were required to own a permanent home as well. The problem affects park homes, also known as mobile homes, typically leasehold bungalow dwellings on a site owned by a third party.

For more information and context, check out the rest of Barker’s article.

Read the source article at The Telegraph