Jan. 5, 2026
— Jeff Ward, Lehigh Valley News Briefs
A Walnutport-area mobile-home park has been sold for $2 million to an owner’s co-operative.
The Gap View Trailer Park in Lehigh Township, just off Route 248, was sold in October, according to Northampton County records. The county recorded the sale on two deeds, with land covering about 1.5 acres.
The property has 36 home sites, according to a real estate ad. In trailer parks, or “manufactured housing communities,” the resident usually owns the home but rents the lot. Despite the term, “mobile homes” are usually not mobile. While they may offer a low-cost housing alternative, renting the ground below the home carries risk.
Co-operatives allow residents to pool or borrow money to buy communities, giving them control over maintenance, rules and rent. In the housing industry, such co-operatives are known as “Resident Owned Communities” or ROCs.
“Unlike traditional manufactured home communities, ROCs are not subject to market-based rent increases, and there is no profit margin in monthly site fees. This cooperative ownership gives homeowners the ability to control costs, improve facilities and make their own rules while providing the peace of mind of land ownership,” according to ROC USA, an organization that promotes resident ownership.
ROC USA is based in New Hampshire but operates throughout the U.S.
At a Lehigh Township Planning Commission meeting in 2025, a commissioner expressed concern about maintenance of the property if a sale to residents went ahead.
Northampton County recorded the sale on Oct. 14 to Gap View Cooperative Inc.
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I think it’s great to see this co-op concept for mobile home parks actually happening. Otherwise this would just end up in the hands of some private equity vultures who would bleed the residents dry and chase them from their homes through drastic lot rent and fee increases.
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