Holiday Park on the market
The land, buildings and business supporting the Big Bay Holiday Park on the shores of the Manukau Harbour is the latest location to join a growing list of seaside vacation venues going up for sale.
Big Bay Holiday Park on Awhitu Peninsula on the southern side of Manukau Harbour, is spread over 1.52 hectares of land and contains a multitude of accommodation options ranging from powered tent and caravan sites through to budget cabins.
The site has been operating as a camp ground for 36 years.
Current owners Ian and Helen Parry have run the site as a lifestyle business for the past 14 years.
The Big Bay Holiday Park freehold land, buildings and business are being marketed for sale by negotiation through Bayleys Counties salespeople Ben Jameson and Shane Snijder.
Jameson said trading accounts showed the camp ground’s busiest occupancy period was from the week before Christmas through until the beginning of February when the school year began.
Big Bay Holiday Park is staffed throughout the year by Ian and Helen on a rostered basis - with additional parttime cleaning and administration workers brought in over the busier summer months between December and February.
Jameson said there were numerous future opportunities for the camp ground to grow its revenue streams.
The business is being sold as a going concern.
The majority of the sites have already been booked for the coming summer.
‘‘Big Bay Holiday Park could remain in its current format – creating acceptable lifestyle returns for the on-site owner/operators.’’
‘‘Alternatively, it could be expanded – either adding more budget cabins, adding units with greater degrees of guest comforts, or establishing a cafe,’’ Jameson said.
‘‘At the pinnacle of future-use opportunities, and of course subject to council consents, is the potential to build more salubrious permanent dwellings which could either be run as privatelyowned or leased residences for exclusive use, or placed into the holiday park’s main accommodation pool when not utilised by the owners.’’
‘‘Obviously the returns increase as the level of guest services and comforts increase,’’ Jameson said.