The Ultimate Guide to Buying a Holiday Home in Norfolk and Suffolk

Holiday homes and holidays in Suffolk and Norfolk are long sought after since the days of Victorian holidaying to the seaside, and it’s not surprising. The wonderful East Anglian coastlines, the iconic Broads National Park, scenic countryside and an easy-going lifestyle are all very attractive. It’s the ideal place for where we are and what we want, now. As we start to reassess our future, we are exploring ways to get the most out of life. Explore these top tips to buying a holiday home in Norfolk and Suffolk!

Buying a Holiday Home in Norfolk and Suffolk Makes Family Sense

Children, grandchildren, siblings, cousins. Even friends – lots of us consider our friends as family. The point is that holiday homes by the sea or the Broads are wonderful for spending time with family and friends. Having somewhere to go to, somewhere that’s part of your family’s story, can generate huge happiness.

Less travel is definitely where we’re all going.

‘It’s better to travel than to arrive’ might still work as a metaphor for life but when it comes to the really important things, like holidays, we’re beginning to realise that the travel bit –  the stressful bit – is the bit we can do without. We just want to be there. And where better than tranquil sought after Suffolk or Norfolk? Just hop in the car and head to your holiday home whenever you want.

A Holiday Home in Norfolk and Suffolk Makes Financial Sense

A holiday home on the Suffolk coast can generate huge happiness, and it could generate income too, helping to offset your annual holiday home running costs. No matter how much you love it, you probably won’t be there all the time. When you’re not there, you can make additional returns on your investment from holiday lettings.

At Waveney River Centre, you can utilise our Managed Letting Scheme for lettings made easy! We’ll do all the legwork – advertising, cleaning, guest services, maintenance – and we’ll just give you your earnings at the end of every month!

The point is that owning a Norfolk holiday home could be a good investment. We’ve lived through huge upheavals – a banking crisis and a pandemic, political changes. There’s a very real chance that you’ve seen big changes in your work. When you’ve learned that the only thing you can be sure of is uncertainty, you’ve realised that stocks, shares and pension pots might not be as attractive, or sensible, as you once assumed. It could be that none of them makes as much sense as owning another piece of property. Like a holiday home in Norfolk or Suffolk, for example.

Buying a Holiday Home in Norfolk and Suffolk Might Be Easier Than You Thought

Buying and selling your home is still up there on that list of the most stressful things you do in life. (Zoom calls with your boss when your living room looks like you haven’t tidied up for a month might also be on that a list now, but let’s move on).

But buying a holiday home is different. As big a deal as exploring property for sale in Suffolk or Norfolk might be, it’s possible to get a really great deal when you have the right help and the right location.

Tingdene Broadlands Park & Marina is superbly placed to enjoy Suffolk at its best. It’s a stunning setting on one of the most beautiful views on the Broads National Park, it has so much going for it. Broadlands Park & Marina has brick-built bungalows going for just £59,000 for a 1 bedroom and £70,000 for a 2 bedroom. With Tingdene Holiday Parks’ help and guidance, as well as potential access to funding packages, your new lease of life is starting to look less like a dream and more like a reality. Isn’t it?

Buying a Holiday Home in Norfolk and Suffolk Can Give You a New Lease of Life

If you’re thinking about owning your own leasehold holiday home, you really need to talk to Tingdene Holiday Parks.

Buying a brick-built holiday home or traditional holiday lodge on a long lease at Tingdene Broadlands Park & Marina or Waveney River Centre is a fantastic route to a financially firm future of holiday happiness. Not only are you buying a place to spend your holidays, you’re also buying a property in Norfolk or Suffolk.

It’s your holiday home, but it’s also a significant achievement. It’s a massively cost-effective means of acquiring an asset at way below the average cost of property in the area. Other properties in the area don’t have an indoor pool, bar and restaurant and marina to access the Broads on site, of course. At Broadlands Park & Marina or Waveney River Centre, you do.

Buying a holiday home at Tingdene Broadlands Park & Marina or Waveney River Centre brings big benefits. There’s a wide range of local places to eat and drink, offering discounts to you as a Tingdene Group holiday home owner. And, when it comes to taking good care of your special place, you’ll enjoy discounts at selected decorator centres.

It’s quite a package. But absolutely nothing to do with package holidays. It’s going to be about long holidays spent doing what you want to do. It’s going to be about enjoying your own holiday home in Suffolk, bought prudently on a long lease. It’s going to be a new lease of life.

Enjoy the Broads National Park by buying a Holiday Home in Norfolk and Suffolk

You Can’t Do Better Than Tingdene Broadlands Park and Marina

The clue is in the name, really. Tingdene Broadlands Park and Marina is about as connected to the Broads as it’s possible to be.

This place is the best of several worlds. When it comes to the world of boats and Broads, you’re really in amongst it here. The marina is right next door, and the park is at the gateway to the Broads, absolutely ideally located for waterborne exploration. If you want to explore and enjoy the Broads by boat, this is the place to start.

Or, if you wanted to start your stay in your holiday home world by staying in and chilling out, Tingdene Broadlands Park and Marina still ticks all the right boxes. Take a dip in the swimming pool and take a sauna. Savour some food or a drink in the park’s bar and restaurant, Moss & Co Broadlands. The kids win out too, with super safe play equipment all around the park.

There’s the world around you too. Suffolk and its Broads, rivers and streams can still claim to be unspoiled, but that most definitely does not mean it’s a backwater. At Tingdene Broadlands Park and Marina you’re surrounded by places to visit and things to do.

Or Try Tingdene Waveney River Centre on the Borders of South Norfolk.

This is how to experience the Broads in authentic style amongst super scenery. With unbroken river and marshland views the Tingdene Waveney River Centre is where you can lead the Broads boatyard lifestyle in the comfort of a modern, well well-equipped lodge.

The Waveney Valley is a glorious slice of Broadland landscape, and Tingdene Waveney River Centre offers everything you need to make it your holiday home location.

This place even has its own pub! The Waveney Inn is a family friendly place at the heart of the park. The Centre also features an indoor heated swimming pool, shop, launderette and play areas.

The holiday lodges here are spacious and super comfortable. And somehow all that luxury, amongst such superb scenery, seems never to lose the connection to real, up close and personal Broadland life. It’s about boatyards, and bends in the river, wildlife and birds. It’s somewhere to make a home from home.

And when you’re in your Waveney Valley holiday home, there’s an East Anglian world of choice for you to explore:

• Visit quaint Beccles
• Sample the food and culture of Halesworth
• Take a look at Loddon
• Do go to Diss.

Or Head to Caldecott Hall Country Park for the Ultimate Holiday Experience

Premier golf course, popular Barn1 Bar & Restaurant, luxury indoor swimming pool, the iconic Redwings Horse Sanctuary and so much more! Caldecott Hall Country Park has so much to offer. This park has acres of land to explore, from quiet walks in the woodlands to the bustling facilities around the park, including the new Disc Golf course!

Either bring your caravan to this park, check out the caravans for sale, or even venture into the lodge or barn conversion development. There’s so many options to be had at Caldecott Hall Country Park, which is perfectly places to enjoy the quintessential British seaside towns of Gorleston and Great Yarmouth, as well as the Broads and beyond.

Enjoy the Coast With a Norfolk or Suffolk Holiday Home

Strike Out to Southwold – and Beyond….

Seaside towns don’t come much more charming than Southwold. Independent shops, art galleries, history around every corner. And, of course, Adnams. The legendary brewery is well worth a visit. It’s a very sought after location, with very sought after properties. Even the beach huts there are expensive, with one Southwold beach hut being listed for £150,000 in 2018 and more recently for £250,000 in 2022!

You have a much cheaper option for holidaying nearby at both Broadlands Park & Marina, and Waveney River Centre. And not to mention, much more space than a beach hut!

Norfolk and Suffolk are blessed with a huge choice of things to do. There are cafes and restaurants, pubs and inns, gardens and woodlands, museums and mansions, shops and beautiful beaches. Lowestoft is a must, and of course Great Yarmouth, the city of Norwich, as is Beccles and beyond.

They Say a Holiday Park Is Like a Village Within a Village.

And they say that about Tingdene holiday parks, not just because they’re so self-contained, but because they have such a feeling of community. Helpful and friendly staff are always on hand but never in the way; like-minded holiday home owners make this exactly your sort of place.

Having your own UK holiday home is something that more and more people are considering. And a Suffolk holiday villa or a Norfolk holiday lodge is fast emerging as the discerning choice.

Tingdene Holiday Parks really do excel when it comes to Suffolk and the Norfolk borders. Broadlands Park and Marina, and Waveney River Centre are exceptional holiday parks offering outstanding facilities. They really are 2 great locations that make Norfolk or Suffolk one fantastic place for a holiday home.