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LAND MARKETS

Barn conversions: Still worth the effort in a tricky market?

Mike Taylor, senior partner at Shropshire-based Barbers Rural, doesn’t pull his punches when asked for his opinion on farmyard barn conversions. “Quite frequently we have clients who are thinking of…

LAND MARKETS

Planning consent and lotting - when do they help a farm sale?

Maximising the value of your assets is clearly a sensible strategy when preparing to sell your farm, but sometimes the rewards don’t outweigh the time, effort and costs involved. Securing…

LAND MARKETS

Land Registry delays improve but process still frustrates

All registration applications are now being processed within 10.9 months of submission, according to new data from the Land Registry. This is ahead of the goal the organisation had set…

BUSINESS CLINIC

Business Clinic: Options for grassland after semi-retirement

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Anna Hicks, an associate partner with Carter Jonas, sets out the options for…

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Case studies

BUSINESS

Farming partnership prompts move from Hampshire to Somerset

Ben and Molly Foote made the move from Hampshire to Somerset in October, to start milking on a former dairy farm where they are renovating and adding to the buildings.…

PARTNERSHIPS

Joint land ownership allows Dutch milk producer to extensify

Dairy producer Pieter van der Valk is balancing profitable farming with ecological benefits through an innovative model whereby farmers and private investors jointly own land. When he heard that his…

LAND MARKETS

Why we’re selling the family farm during coronavirus

Jane Clark and her son, Fred, have decided to sell their family farm in Essex during a time of global uncertainty. The coronavirus pandemic has given the family a chance…

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

How HS2 compensation battles have hit two family farms hard

The high-speed rail project set to link London, Birmingham, the East Midlands, Leeds and Manchester has proved controversial. The project has cost taxpayers £4.1bn even before construction has started, according…

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Insights

LAND MARKETS

Farmland in your area 2026: North-east England

The north-east farmland market has not been spared the uncertainty of what one agent describes as the “subsidy shenanigans”. Changes to inheritance tax (IHT) reliefs combined with rising costs and…

LAND MARKETS

Sale and leaseback of farmland: Is it making a comeback?

Talk to any East Anglian farm agent of a certain vintage, and it won’t be too long before they are reminiscing about the golden era of sale and leaseback (S&L).…

LAND MARKETS

How farmland auctions are delivering results

Across the country, agents continue to extol the old-school benefits of gathering bidders together in a room to slug it out. Auctioneer Janet Flintoft, associate director with H&H Land &…

LAND MARKETS

How to unlock the best value from development land

The British countryside is caught in the middle of a house-building battlefield. On one side is a government desperately relaxing planning and environmental rules to help deliver on a promise…

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News

LAND MARKETS

South-west England offers choice of four farms

Four farms in the south-west of England, including a fully equipped arable and dairy holding with 424 acres, provide a good range of opportunities this week. In the latest set…

LAND MARKETS

Four varied farm launches from Sussex to Aberdeenshire

New launches often tail off in late autumn but there is no pause in the farmland market this week, with options including a substantial block of arable land in Sussex…

BUSINESS

Defra under scrutiny over £1.94m Rothbury Estate pledge

Defra has faced questions from MPs over the signal it is sending to farmers after pledging £1.94m towards a major nature recovery project, weeks after thousands of farmers missed out…

LAND MARKETS

Sunderland and Ross-shire launches offer decent scale

Sizeable launches feature in the land market this week including a 437-acre arable unit in north-east England. Described as a very unusual, commercial-scale farm, Flinton Hill Farm, near Penshaw, Sunderland,…

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LAND MARKETS

Large Lincolnshire arable estate selling in lots

One of the largest commercial arable holdings to come to market in Lincolnshire for 20 years is being sold off in several lots to a variety of buyers. Rainthorpe Farms,…

LAND MARKETS

Video: Farming family sells estate after 70 years

Succession planning is commonly defined as the process of passing a farm from one generation to the next. Done properly the outcome should provide clarity over the future of the…

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VIDEO & PICTURES: Stunning Leicestershire dairy farm for sale

Property agent Howkins & Harrison is selling a 235-acre Leicestershire state-of-the-art dairy unit that will seriously whet the appetite of all milk producers. The firm's Jeff Paybody says Ridgefield Farm at…

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BUSINESS

Landowner-led development series

Landowners may live with the consequences of their development decisions for years to come. "Legacy developments" allow landowners to exert a certain level of control in the design, construction and…

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