Dreeym / The Numbers
Do your own sums.
Six calculators, each answering one question. Every one shows its workings, none of them asks for your email address, and all of them print.
1. What would I release?
The money left over after you sell your house and buy a Dreeym home — the number most people want first, and the one nobody publishes.
Show the workings
Open-market costs assume 1.2% estate agency plus VAT, £1,400 legal and £1,100 removals — roughly in line with the £13,018 average UK moving cost (HomeOwners Alliance, 2026). Part-exchange removes the agency fee and the chain. Your solicitor does the real sums.
2. The stamp duty you don’t pay
49% of over-65s say stamp duty is a reason not to move. On a Dreeym home there isn’t any — because you’re buying a home, not land.
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England & Northern Ireland residential SDLT bands as at July 2026: nil to £125,000; 2% to £250,000; 5% to £925,000; 10% to £1.5m; 12% above. Additional-property surcharge applied where selected. Wales uses LTT — ask us and we’ll run it. Rates change; verify with your solicitor.
3. What it costs to run
Everything, monthly, against the house you’re leaving. The pitch fee is in here — we’re not hiding it at the bottom.
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Your current costs include energy and council tax only — not the maintenance, the window cleaner, the gutters, the boiler service or the roof. At Dreeym the grounds, the greens and The Hearth are inside the pitch fee. Energy figures are metered actuals from our residents, averaged over twelve months.
| Home | Energy, monthly | EPC | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s three-bed semi | £182 | D/E | Solid walls, single-glazed somewhere, a boiler older than the dog |
| 1970s four-bed detached | £241 | D | Big, draughty, and heating rooms nobody has used since 2009 |
| Victorian terrace | £205 | E | Beautiful. Ruinous. |
| A Dreeym Alder | £58–£104 | A–B | 800 sq ft, 300mm insulation, triple glazed, one level to heat |
| A Dreeym Rowan | £68–£120 | A–B | 900 sq ft, air-source heat pump option, underfloor available |
4. The pitch fee, projected
The question everyone asks and nobody answers on a website. Here is what the cap actually means, twenty years out.
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Compound annual increase at the rate you chose, applied once a year. Under the Mobile Homes (Pitch Fees) Act 2023 reviews are pegged to CPI rather than the higher RPI — and our written promise is that CPI is a ceiling, not a target. See five years of what we actually charged.
5. The stairs counter
A silly calculation with a serious point. It is the number people quote back to us most often.
That’s the height of Ben Nevis, roughly 14 times.
6. How far from the people you love?
The average downsizing move in Britain is 4.19 miles. Most people don’t go far — but nobody lets you check first.
Typical driving times, door to door, off-peak. Trains and buses often beat these — ask us for the timetable to your community.
None of these numbers is a quotation. They’re honest arithmetic to help you think, using published rates and our own metered figures. Your solicitor does the real sums, and we’ll happily talk to them — that’s not a formality, it’s an offer.
Everything here prints. This audience prints things, and discusses them at the kitchen table, and we think that’s exactly right. .