Motorhome Pig vs Motorhome Depot: an honest comparison for sellers
Both are UK motorhome brokers that sell your motorhome for you while it stays on your driveway, with no upfront cost. The real difference is how: a national franchise network of local brokers, or one centralised, family-run team you manage online.
Written by the Motorhome Pig team · Halifax, West Yorkshire · Last updated 14 June 2026
Motorhome Depot describes itself as “the UK's largest Motorhome and Caravan brokerage service” (its own website): a national franchise of independently owned local brokers across the UK and Europe, established, in its own words, in 2010. A local broker visits you to value and photograph your motorhome, then sells it for you.
Motorhome Pig is a motorhome broker: a single, centralised, family-run team in Halifax that runs the whole sale online. List the same day from anywhere in the UK by uploading your own photos (professionally edited in-house), watch every view, lead and offer in a live seller dashboard, and pay one fee with no upfront cost. If you would rather, we also buy outright for cash.
Choose Motorhome Depot if you want a local broker to come to you in person and you value the biggest network and longest track record. Choose Motorhome Pig if you want a technology-led online service - same-day listing, video-led adverts and a live dashboard where you stay in control - dealing with one central accountable team rather than the independently owned franchisee covering your area.
Motorhome Pig vs Motorhome Depot at a glance
We are Motorhome Pig, so this is our opinion and we have a commercial interest - weigh it accordingly. To keep it fair: every fact about Motorhome Depot below is taken from its own website and published seller terms (quoted and dated), we link our own evidence, and we say plainly where we cannot verify something and where Motorhome Depot is the stronger choice for you.
This article was independently researched and written by Motorhome Pig from publicly available sources. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Motorhome Depot, and we claim no rights in the Motorhome Depot name or trademarks, which belong to their owner. For anything about Motorhome Depot's own service, fees or terms, please check its website or contact Motorhome Depot directly.
In summary: Motorhome Depot is far bigger and longer-established, and says so itself; Motorhome Pig is a newer, technology-led service that runs the sale online, with same-day listing, video-led adverts and a live seller dashboard. Both are no-upfront, no-sale-no-fee brokers whose viewings happen at your home.
| For the seller | Motorhome Pig | Motorhome Depot |
|---|---|---|
| Business model | One centralised, family-run brokerage (plus an optional cash-buy route) | Franchise - a national network of independently owned local brokers across the UK and Europe |
| Who handles your sale | The same accountable Halifax team, start to finish | Whichever independently owned franchisee covers your area |
| Getting listed | Same day - upload your own photos, live from anywhere in the UK | After a local broker visits to inspect & photograph it |
| Photos | Professionally edited in-house by our editor, ex-Top Gear magazine | Broker photographs it in person at the visit |
| Video walkarounds | Video-led adverts; a walkaround video hosted natively on the advert, encouraged on every listing | Sometimes includes a video, often via YouTube, rather than hosted natively on its own site |
| Live seller dashboard | Yes - views, leads and offers in real time | No public evidence of a self-service seller dashboard - sellers report updates come via their local broker (they may have one we can't see) |
| Seeing every offer & your exact net | Shown on every offer; accept, decline or counter in a tap | Offers relayed to you by your broker |
| Advertising reach | Auto Trader (Connect partner), eBay, Gumtree, own site + targeted social | High-traffic own site plus Auto Trader, eBay and Gumtree (their own wording) |
| Buyer screening & safety | Buyers vetted; your address kept private until a viewing is confirmed | Broker filters enquiries and accompanies viewings |
| Who you sell to | Brokerage listings sold to private buyers only - never flipped to the trade | Private buyers; the group also describes itself as the UK's largest trade buyer of used motorhomes |
| How the fee is set out | Fee scale published; exact amount you receive shown on every offer | Commission is a 'buyer premium' (their term); percentage not on their website - ask your broker |
| When you pay | Only if it sells - no upfront cost whatsoever | Only if it sells - no upfront cost (their own wording) |
| Getting the sale money to you | Buyer pays our fee via GoCardless; the sale balance is paid direct to you (bank transfer, cash or cheque - your choice). No escrow, no transaction fee to you | Sale funds pass through its 'Great You Paid' escrow (FCA-regulated client account); its page states a £99 transaction fee paid by both buyer and seller |
| Contract | 90-day exclusive term; early-exit fee (recovers our advertising & staff costs) only if you cancel or sell within the term - free to leave if unsold at term end | Min 90-day term; published terms add a cancellation fee (max £1,000) and a 'sold out of trust' fee |
| Track record & scale | Newer (founded 2025); one focused team | Describes itself as the UK's largest motorhome brokerage; says it began in 2010; 'Excellent' on Trustpilot |
Icons mark whether a feature is offered, not a quality score. Entries for Motorhome Depot reflect its own website and published seller terms as of 14 June 2026; competitors' fees and terms can change, so confirm current details before you sign. Each point is expanded, with sources, in the sections below.
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Sell my motorhomeWho is Motorhome Depot?
Motorhome Depot describes itself as “the UK's largest Motorhome and Caravan brokerage service” (its own website) and says it was “established in 2010”. It runs as a franchise - its broker pages state “each brokerage is independently owned and operated by a franchisee” - operating a national network of independent local brokers across the UK and Europe. At the time of writing, its own search page listed over 1,000 motorhomes for sale.
Motorhome Depot operates from a head office in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire (per business-directory listings and its 01623 contact number) and works as a brokerage (an “estate agent for motorhomes”) rather than a dealer that buys your vehicle outright. Your motorhome stays with you while a local franchisee markets it, handles enquiries and viewings, and completes the sale, with funds passing through a holding account so you only release the keys once you have cleared funds in your bank - which its own sellers guide confirms. Its public-facing operating company is Major Oak Ventures Ltd, registered in England (no. 09364741).
The wider group also trades under the Caravan Depot brand and operates Habcheck, which it describes as the UK's only national brand for mobile motorhome and caravan servicing. Motorhome Depot also describes itself as “the largest trade buyer and seller of used motorhomes in the UK” (its own website). Buying and retailing stock as well as broking it is common in the sector. For our part, Motorhome Pig's brokerage route sells only to private buyers, and we separately offer an optional cash purchase, shown openly alongside (never instead of) your brokerage estimate.
Who is Motorhome Pig?
Motorhome Pig is a motorhome broker - a family-run UK motorhome brokerage based in Halifax, West Yorkshire, founded in 2025 by lifelong motor trader Gary Cheetham and his son Lewis. It is a single, centralised team (not a franchise) that runs the whole sale online, advertises your motorhome on Auto Trader as an official Auto Trader Connect partner, and also offers an optional cash purchase if you would rather sell outright.
Motorhome Pig was built to do what a traditional broker does - value, advertise, screen buyers, negotiate and complete a safe sale - but to run it from one accountable team with modern technology, so sellers anywhere in the UK get going the same day without waiting for someone to drive out to them. Your motorhome never leaves your driveway.
Because everything is centralised, every seller deals with the same Halifax team, sees the same live information, and is handled to the same standard, whether you are in Cornwall, the Highlands or East Anglia. That consistency, plus the live seller dashboard, is what distinguishes Motorhome Pig from a network of separate local businesses. We are also, plainly, the newer and smaller name here, which we cover honestly further down.
When you list with us on brokerage, your motorhome is sold to a genuine private buyer: we don't allow traders to list brokerage stock, and we never sell your brokerage listing on to the trade - so you are in front of real private buyers, not dealers hunting cheap stock to flip. Separately, like most motorhome businesses, we also offer an optional instant cash purchase if you would rather sell to us outright for a fast, guaranteed exit - that is your choice, shown openly alongside the brokerage figure, never a substitute for it.
How selling works, and how fast you can start
With Motorhome Depot a local franchisee visits you in person to inspect, value and photograph your motorhome before it goes live, so the start date depends on a booked appointment in your area. With Motorhome Pig there is no visit to wait for: you upload your own photos and the advert can go live the same day, from anywhere in the UK.
With Motorhome Depot, a local broker who knows the area visits you in person: they sit with you, give a face-to-face valuation and take the photos for you. The trade-off is that the advert goes live after that visit, so you book around your local broker's availability - which may be quick, or take a little longer, depending on your area.
With Motorhome Pig there is no visit step. You tell us about your motorhome, upload your photos and video, and the listing can be live the same day, then pushed out to the advertising channels. There is no requirement to have an MOT, a service or paperwork sorted before listing - you can add those later. The flip side, in fairness, is that you do a little more yourself: there is no broker on your driveway, you upload your own photos (we edit them for you) and you run the sale through your dashboard.
Worried that uploading your own photos means amateur snaps? Don't be. Every seller's photos are professionally edited in-house by our editor, who previously worked at Top Gear magazine, so your advert looks professionally shot - without waiting for a broker to drive out and photograph it. You get pro-quality images and same-day speed.
Motorhomes are seasonal, so getting live this week instead of next can be the difference between catching the spring and summer buying rush and missing it. Our median time-to-sale is around 30 days across our brokerage listings, though it varies: in three recent sales a near-new 2025 Hymer sold in 21 days and a 2021 Swift Kon-Tiki in 23 days, while a harder Highland sale took about ten weeks. With a same-day start, the listing goes live when you upload it, rather than after a booked visit.
There is no need to rush a sale, either: holding out for the right buyer can secure a stronger price, and your dashboard shows exactly how much interest you are getting so you can make that call yourself.
What does it cost to sell?
Neither broker charges anything upfront and both are no-sale, no-fee. The difference is in where the fee is set out. Motorhome Pig publishes its exact fee scale and shows the precise amount you receive on every offer. Motorhome Depot's seller terms state its commission “takes the form of a buyer premium which will have already been deducted from the gross sale price” (their wording); it does not publish the percentage on its website, so you would ask your local broker to confirm the figure.
There is no upfront cost with Motorhome Pig - you pay nothing until it sells. The fees are fixed and public: £1,500 on a list price up to £10,000; £2,000 from £10,001 to £33,333; and 6% above £33,333. The amount you receive - your list price minus the fee - is shown live on your dashboard and on every single offer before you accept anything, so there are no surprises about what lands in your bank.
Motorhome Depot's commission is, in its own seller terms, “a buyer premium which will have already been deducted from the gross sale price when you are presented with offers.” Its FAQs describe only “a small margin on each transaction which is the differential in price between buyer and seller.” That is a normal brokerage structure, but because the percentage is not published online, you should ask your local broker to confirm the figure before you sign.
Because Motorhome Depot does not publish its commission, the only figures in circulation come from sellers discussing it on owner forums and reviews - so treat the following as anecdotal, not official. On forums such as MotorhomeFun and Motorhomer, sellers most commonly describe a fixed fee in the region of £3,000, though reports vary: one seller said their broker quoted £4,000(which they reckoned was about 10% of their van's value), and an experienced trader commented that “most will charge 10% for a commission sale.” Several sellers describe the charge being added on top of their asking price - consistent with the “buyer premium” wording in Motorhome Depot's own terms - so the effective percentage changes with the vehicle's value (one seller worked theirs out at roughly 6.7%).
Opinions are mixed: some sellers were very happy (a quick, hassle-free sale with no time-wasters), while others felt the mark-up added on top of their asking price was a drawback. These are sellers' own accounts on public forums, not figures from Motorhome Depot - always confirm the actual commission with your local broker before you decide.
Both brokers use a 90-day exclusive term. Motorhome Pig's 90-day term carries an early-exit fee only if you cancel, or sell privately, within that period - it recovers our advertising and staff costs, both of which are significant. Crucially, if your motorhome simply hasn't sold by the end of the 90 days, you are free to walk away at no cost. Motorhome Depot's published seller terms set a minimum 90-day term, a cancellation fee equal to the broker's costs up to a maximum of £1,000, and a “sold out of trust” fee - their wording - of 10% of the advertised price (minimum £2,000, maximum £5,000) if you sell the motorhome during the term without the broker's involvement. Neither is a catch - just check the term, the exit fee and the exclusivity before signing, whoever you choose.
Where is your motorhome advertised?
Both brokers advertise widely - their own site plus the major portals - so reach is broadly comparable. Motorhome Depot says it advertises across “Autotrader, Ebay, Gumtree and others, as well as our own website” (its own wording). Motorhome Pig advertises across Auto Trader (as an official Auto Trader Connect partner), eBay, Gumtree, its own modern marketplace, and targeted social campaigns.
This is one area where the two are closely matched on the major portals, and it would be unfair to suggest otherwise - Motorhome Depot's scale gives it a busy own-site audience built over more than a decade. Where Motorhome Pig differs is in the additional channels: targeted social advertising to reach buyers who are not actively searching the portals yet, plus professionally edited photos and a video-led advert format.
Motorhome Pig is also video-led: every advert is built to feature a full walkaround video hosted natively on the listing itself, we encourage one on every advert, and many carry video. Other brokers do sometimes include a video too, but typically by linking out to a third-party site such as YouTube rather than building it into the advert; and listings with video tend to attract more engagement. It is all bundled with no upfront cost.
Buyers want to see a motorhome move, open up and walk through before they travel. Motorhome Pig builds the video natively into the advert and encourages a walkaround on every listing, so buyers can see the motorhome in motion before they travel - where other brokers, if they include video at all, more often link out to a third-party site like YouTube.
Motorhome Pig is an official Auto Trader Connect partner, so we advertise your motorhome on Auto Trader (the UK's largest vehicle marketplace) as part of the service, at no extra Auto Trader advert fee to you. See our Motorhome Pig vs Auto Trader Motorhomes comparison if you are weighing up doing it yourself.
Buyer screening and your safety
With both brokers your motorhome stays with you and viewings happen at your home, so the question that matters is who turns up. Motorhome Pig vets every buyer before a viewing is confirmed and keeps your exact address private until then, so you only ever meet genuine, checked buyers. Motorhome Depot's broker filters enquiries and accompanies viewings.
Selling a high-value motorhome privately exposes you to time-wasters, lowball callers and, occasionally, scams. A core reason to use any broker is to put a professional layer between you and that risk. Both brokers do this; Motorhome Pig goes a step further by checking each buyer's identity and intent and protecting your precise location until a viewing is agreed with a verified buyer, so an unscreened stranger should not be able to get your address from the advert.
Every Motorhome Pig seller is also identity-verified through a GDPR-compliant partner, and listings are checked before they go live, which builds buyer confidence on the other side too - genuine buyers know they are dealing with a real, verified owner. No process can promise that nothing ever goes wrong, but vetting buyers and keeping your address private removes the most obvious risks.
When an online buyer offered our seller Neil £75,000 for his near-new Hymer - more than anyone else - our research flagged it as a likely scam; he was right, and the buyer turned out to be lining up to take the van without paying. And Carole, selling a campervan alone from the Isle of Skye, had been targeted by a trader using a photo of her own van as his profile picture before she came to us. In both cases a screened, address-private, money-before-keys process is what kept the seller safe. You can read both in full in our seller case studies.
How you get paid, and what the payment itself costs
With Motorhome Depot the sale money passes through its “Great You Paid” service - an FCA-regulated client account, in effect an escrow - and its own page states a “£99 per transaction which both buyer and seller pay.” With Motorhome Pig, only our brokerage fee is collected (by GoCardless); the rest of the sale price is paid straight from the buyer to you, by whatever method you agree, with no third-party escrow and no separate transaction fee for you.
Motorhome Depot routes the sale money through its “Great You Paid” system, which it says places the funds in an “FCA regulated clients account” until both sides approve the transaction - “exactly the same principle as buying a house,” as its page puts it - so the money is only released when you are ready. That is a genuine safeguard, and for some sellers the reassurance of funds held in escrow until completion is worth having. There is a cost attached: its page states a “£99 per transaction which both buyer and seller pay.”
Motorhome Pig works differently. We only ever collect our own brokerage fee, taken by GoCardless. The rest - the bulk of your money - is paid directly to you by the buyer: usually a bank transfer, but it is whatever you and the buyer agree, including cash or a cheque. There is no third-party escrow holding your sale proceeds, and no per-transaction payment fee for you to pay on top of the brokerage fee.
Both approaches are built to keep you safe; they just do it differently. Motorhome Depot holds the money centrally until everyone approves. Motorhome Pig keeps the simplest golden rule front and centre instead: you never hand over the keys, the V5 logbook or the motorhome until cleared funds are confirmed in your own account. In our case studies that is exactly how it went - Neil's buyers sent a £1,000 test payment and then the balance by Faster Payment before he released anything, and Tony held the keys until the money had cleared. If you would rather have funds formally held in escrow, Motorhome Depot's model may suit you better; if you would rather keep your money out of a third party's hands and avoid an extra transaction fee, Motorhome Pig's direct model may suit you better.
- Motorhome Pig: only the brokerage fee is collected (via GoCardless). The sale balance is paid directly to you by your agreed method - bank transfer, cash or cheque. No third-party escrow, and no transaction fee to you.
- Motorhome Depot: the sale money passes through its “Great You Paid” escrow (an FCA-regulated client account). Its page states a “£99 per transaction which both buyer and seller pay.”
Can you see your own leads, views and offers?
This is one practical difference for sellers who want to self-serve online. Motorhome Pig gives every seller a live online dashboard: watch your view count climb, see every enquiry and every offer with the exact amount you would receive, and accept, decline or counter in a tap, plus change your price and add photos and video yourself. Motorhome Depot is broker-mediated - sellers report that updates come through their local franchise broker - and we found no public evidence of a self-service seller dashboard on its website, though it is possible one exists that we cannot see.
With a traditional broker you find out how your sale is going by phoning your broker. With Motorhome Pig you simply log in. The dashboard shows live interest as it builds, lists every lead as it arrives, and presents each offer with the exact net figure you would walk away with, which you control directly. You can tweak your price, complete your advert to attract more enquiries, and upload extra photos or a video walkaround whenever you like.
For sellers who like to stay informed and in control, this means there is nothing to chase, because you can already see it. Sellers who would rather hand everything to a person and not look at a screen may prefer the broker-relay approach, and that is a fair preference.
- Live view count and listing activity
- Every buyer enquiry, tracked through to a sale
- Every offer, with your exact “you receive” figure
- Accept, decline or counter offers yourself
- Self-service price changes
- Upload your own photos and video
- Viewing requests to confirm or decline
- Your signed contract to download
Proof: three recent Motorhome Pig sales, with the figures
A comparison is only as good as its evidence, so here is ours. These are three real, named, consented Motorhome Pig brokerage sales from 2026, each told in full on its own page with the seller's own five-star review. In every case the seller netted thousands more than the trade or cash offers they had been quoted.
| Seller | Motorhome | Sold in | Sold for | Seller received | vs. trade / cash offers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neil | 2025 Hymer Free S 600 | 21 days | £78,000 | £73,320 | ~£5,300 more than the ~£68,000 trade/cash offers |
| Tony | 2021 Swift Kon-Tiki Sport 599 | 23 days | £59,995 (full asking) | £56,396 | £4,900–£11,400 more than the £45,000–£51,500 cash offers |
| Carole | 2008 Autocruise Rhythm (Isle of Skye) | ~10 weeks | £23,500 | £21,500 | Retail price from a remote island; a trader on Facebook had targeted her |
Figures are each seller's own list price, sale price, our published success-only fee and the net paid, as recorded in our CRM and seller dashboard. Read all three case studies in full.
- Retail beats trade. Neil netted about £5,300 more than the trade offers; Tony thousands more than any cash offer - because a brokerage reaches the private buyer who pays retail.
- Fast, but honest about it. 21 and 23 days for two sales; about ten weeks for a Highland island where almost every buyer is hundreds of miles away. All inside the agreement.
- Safe. A likely £75,000 scam flagged before Neil lost his van; a lone seller protected from a Facebook trader; money confirmed before any keys moved.
- One sale isn't a statistic - but these are named, consented sellers with published reviews and figures you can check.
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Sell my motorhomeFranchise network vs one central team: what it means for you
Because Motorhome Depot is a franchise, the broker you deal with depends on which independently owned brokerage covers your area: its own broker pages state “each brokerage is independently owned and operated by a franchisee.” In our view, that means your day-to-day contact and service come from your local franchisee rather than from one central team. Motorhome Pig is one centralised team, so every seller deals with the same accountable people.
A franchise model has real strengths: local knowledge, a face-to-face relationship, and a broker invested in their own patch. By its nature it also means the business handling your sale is the independently owned franchisee covering your area, rather than one central company - that is simply how a franchise works, and Motorhome Depot says as much on its own broker pages.
With Motorhome Pig there is one team, one standard, and one set of people accountable for your sale from first call to completed handover - the same family-run business wherever you are in the UK. Which model you prefer is a genuine choice: some sellers value a local, independently owned broker on their doorstep; others prefer dealing with a single central team throughout.
- Exactly what is your fee or commission, in pounds, on my list price?
- Is there any upfront cost, and is it genuinely no-sale, no-fee?
- Who handles my sale, and are they directly employed or an independent franchisee?
- How and when will I see enquiries, views and offers?
- What is the contract term, the exit fee, and the exclusivity?
- Do you also buy motorhomes for cash or retail stock yourselves? (For transparency, our own answer: yes - we offer an optional cash purchase if you want a fast, guaranteed sale, a trade-priced figure shown openly next to your brokerage estimate, never a substitute for it.)
Pros and cons of each, for sellers
Motorhome Pig
Strengths
- Same-day listing from photos you upload - no visit to wait for
- Photos professionally edited in-house by our editor (ex-Top Gear magazine)
- Video-led adverts: a walkaround video, natively hosted, encouraged on every listing
- Live seller dashboard: views, leads and offers in real time
- Published fee scale and no upfront cost; exact net shown on every offer
- Brokerage listings sold to private buyers only - never flipped to the trade
- Buyers vetted and your address kept private until a viewing is confirmed
- Advertised on Auto Trader, eBay, Gumtree, own site and targeted social
- Optional cash purchase too, if you'd rather sell outright for speed
Trade-offs for sellers
- Newer business (founded 2025), so a much shorter track record and smaller scale than Motorhome Depot
- No in-person broker visit or face-to-face local valuation
- Vetted buyers view at your home and you host the viewing yourself - no broker attends it with you
- You do a little more yourself (uploading photos, using the dashboard)
- Brokerage takes time and isn't guaranteed - a cash sale is faster and more certain
- 90-day exclusive term with an early-exit fee if you cancel or sell within the term (free to leave if it hasn't sold by term end), like most brokers
Motorhome Depot
Strengths
- Large national franchise network; describes itself as the UK's largest motorhome brokerage
- A local broker visits in person to value and photograph your motorhome
- A local broker usually accompanies the viewings on your behalf
- Rated 'Excellent' on Trustpilot across several thousand reviews
- No upfront cost and no-sale, no-fee (its own wording)
- Says it was established in 2010 - a long sector track record
- Funds handled centrally; keys released only on cleared payment
Trade-offs for sellers
- Each brokerage is independently owned and operated, so the broker handling your sale depends on your area (per its own broker pages)
- Commission is a 'buyer premium' with the percentage not published online
- No public evidence of a self-service seller dashboard (they may have one we can't see) - sellers report updates come via the local broker
- You wait for a local appointment before the advert can go live
- Published terms include a 'sold out of trust' fee for selling outside the agreement during the term
When Motorhome Depot might be the better choice
Motorhome Depot is the better fit if you specifically want a local broker to visit you in person and to accompany your viewings, you prefer the reassurance of the biggest network and longest track record, or you would rather not manage anything online.
We would rather be straight with you than pretend we are right for everyone. If a face-to-face valuation on your driveway matters to you, if you want someone local to take the photos, accompany your viewings and handle everything offline, or if you simply feel more comfortable with the market leader, Motorhome Depot's model is built for exactly that, and its scale and long Trustpilot history back it up.
And we will say it plainly: Motorhome Pig is the newer, smaller name here. We do not send someone to your driveway to value and photograph the motorhome in person; you upload your own photos (we edit them for you) and manage the sale through your dashboard, which is a little more hands-on than handing everything to a local broker. Brokerage also takes time and is never guaranteed - if speed and certainty matter most, a cash sale, from us or anyone, will beat it. If those things matter to you, Motorhome Depot's in-person, big-network model may suit you better, and we would rather tell you that than pretend otherwise.
If, on the other hand, you want to be live the same day and manage the sale yourself online, that is what Motorhome Pig is set up to do.
Frequently asked questions
Is Motorhome Pig cheaper than Motorhome Depot?
It depends on your motorhome's value, and the honest answer is that you can compare like for like with Motorhome Pig but not always with Motorhome Depot. Motorhome Pig publishes a fixed fee scale with no upfront cost: £1,500 on a list price up to £10,000, £2,000 from £10,001 to £33,333, and 6% above £33,333, with the exact amount you receive shown on every offer. Motorhome Depot's seller terms state its commission “takes the form of a buyer premium which will have already been deducted from the gross sale price when you are presented with offers” (their wording), and it does not publish the percentage online, so you would need to ask your local broker for the figure. Both charge nothing upfront and operate no-sale, no-fee.
How long does it take to get my motorhome listed with each?
With Motorhome Pig your advert can go live the same day: you upload your own photos and the listing is published, then pushed out to the advertising channels, with no visit to wait for. Our median time-to-sale is around 30 days across our brokerage listings, though it varies by price, condition and location - in three recent sales a near-new 2025 Hymer sold in 21 days and a 2021 Swift Kon-Tiki in 23 days, while a harder Highland sale from the Isle of Skye took about ten weeks. With Motorhome Depot a local franchisee arranges to visit you in person to inspect, value and photograph the motorhome before it goes live, so the start date depends on your broker's availability in your area.
Has Motorhome Pig actually sold motorhomes for more than a cash offer?
Yes, and we publish the figures with named, consenting sellers. Neil received £73,320 for his 2025 Hymer Free S 600 - about £5,300 more than the ~£68,000 trade and cash offers he had - sold in 21 days. Tony received £56,396 for his 2021 Swift Kon-Tiki Sport 599 at full asking price, between £4,900 and £11,400 more than the £45,000-£51,500 cash offers he had been quoted. Carole sold a 2008 Autocruise Rhythm from the Isle of Skye for £23,500 (£21,500 to her), a retail price from one of the hardest places in the UK to sell. Each paid only a success-only fee. A brokerage reaches the private buyer who pays retail, rather than the trade price a dealer needs to resell at a profit - though a cash sale, from us or anyone, is faster and more certain if that matters more to you.
Is Motorhome Depot a trade buyer as well as a broker?
Alongside the brokerage, the wider Motorhome Depot group runs the Caravan Depot brand and Habcheck, which it describes as a national brand for mobile motorhome and caravan servicing. Motorhome Depot also describes itself as “the largest trade buyer and seller of used motorhomes in the UK” (its own words). None of that is unusual for the sector. For its part, Motorhome Pig's brokerage route sells only to private buyers - we don't flip your brokerage listing to the trade - and we also offer an optional cash purchase if you would rather sell to us outright, always shown openly alongside (never instead of) your brokerage figure.
Is Motorhome Depot a franchise?
Yes. Motorhome Depot states on its broker pages that “Motorhomedepot.com is a franchise and each brokerage is independently owned and operated by a franchisee.” It operates a national network of independent local brokers across the UK and Europe. This means the service you receive depends on the individual franchisee covering your area. Motorhome Pig, by contrast, is a single centralised team in Halifax, so every seller deals with the same people.
Can I see my views, leads and offers with Motorhome Depot?
Motorhome Depot's model is broker-mediated: sellers report that updates on enquiries, viewings and offers reach them through their local franchise broker. We found no public evidence of a self-service seller dashboard on Motorhome Depot's website (it is possible a login-based portal exists that we cannot see, so treat this as what we could find, not a certainty). Motorhome Pig, by contrast, gives every seller a live online dashboard - something we offer and are proud of - showing the view count, every enquiry and every offer, with the amount you would receive, which you can accept, decline or counter yourself.
Do strangers come to my home with either broker?
With both brokers your motorhome stays with you and viewings take place at your home. The difference is screening: Motorhome Pig vets every buyer before a viewing is confirmed and keeps your exact address private until then, so an unscreened stranger should not be able to get your address from the advert. Motorhome Depot's broker filters enquiries and accompanies viewings on your behalf. No screening can promise that nothing ever goes wrong, but a vetted, address-private process removes the most obvious risks of advertising a valuable vehicle yourself.
What does Motorhome Depot charge to sell my motorhome?
Motorhome Depot charges no upfront fee and markets selling on a “no sale, no fee” basis (its own wording). Its seller terms state the commission “takes the form of a buyer premium which will have already been deducted from the gross sale price when you are presented with offers,” and the percentage is not published on its website, so the figure should be confirmed with your local broker before you sign. For what it is worth, sellers discussing it on owner forums (such as MotorhomeFun and Motorhomer) most often report a fixed fee around £3,000, with some reporting roughly 10% - but these are anecdotal user accounts, not official figures, and the charge is typically added on top of your asking price, so always check the actual figure with your local broker. Its published seller terms also set a minimum 90-day term, a cancellation fee equal to the broker's costs (capped at £1,000), and a “sold out of trust” fee - their term - of 10% of the advertised price (minimum £2,000, maximum £5,000) if you sell the motorhome during the term without the broker's involvement.
Is there an escrow or transaction fee when I sell?
With Motorhome Pig, no. The only charge is our brokerage fee, shown to you in full before you sign and collected through GoCardless; the rest of the sale price is paid directly to you by the buyer - by bank transfer, cash or cheque, whatever you agree - so there is no third-party escrow and no separate transaction fee for you to pay. Motorhome Depot uses an escrow service it calls “Great You Paid”, where the sale money passes through an FCA-regulated client account until both parties approve; its page states a “£99 per transaction which both buyer and seller pay.”
Can I switch from Motorhome Depot to Motorhome Pig?
Often yes, but check your existing agreement first. Motorhome Depot's published terms include a minimum 90-day term and can include a cancellation fee (capped at £1,000) and a “sold out of trust” fee if you sell outside the agreement during the term, so confirm where you stand before listing elsewhere. Once you are free to do so, Motorhome Pig can get a fresh advert live the same day from photos you upload, with no upfront cost and no visit required.
Compare Motorhome Pig with other ways to sell
This comparison reflects publicly available information as of 14 June 2026. Statements about Motorhome Depot were checked against its own website, its published seller terms and its broker pages, alongside UK Companies House records, and quoted directly where possible. Competitors' fees, terms and figures can change, so always confirm the current details directly with the broker before you sign.
Where we could not verify something from Motorhome Depot's own published material (such as its exact commission percentage, which it does not publish online), we have flagged it as an open question to confirm with the broker rather than stated it as fact. Any commission figures attributed to sellers come from public owner forums and reviews (including MotorhomeFun, Motorhomer and Trustpilot); these are anecdotal user accounts, clearly labelled as such, not statements by Motorhome Depot. Figures for Motorhome Pig sales are drawn from our own CRM and seller-dashboard records and link to the full, named case studies. We are Motorhome Pig, so we have a commercial interest in this comparison; we have aimed to be fair and to show our sources so you can check it yourself.
“Motorhome Depot” and any related names and logos are trademarks of their respective owner. Motorhome Pig claims no rights in them and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Motorhome Depot. This article is our independent opinion, assembled by Motorhome Pig from publicly available sources, and is provided for general information only. If you have any questions about Motorhome Depot's service, fees or terms, please contact Motorhome Depot directly.
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