Farmland in your area 2025: West Midlands

Supplies of farmland in the West Midlands have bucked the national trend with the number of acres marketed in 2025 among the highest for five years.

According to rural agents, that volume has largely been driven by the launches of a small number of large farms and estates.

However, higher supply is one reason behind many of those properties remaining on the market.

See also: Farmland in your area 2025: East Midlands

Average values of both arable land and pasture have marginally reduced, but there are regional differences and those disparities are evident within regions too.

What the agents say

Richard Gadd, partner, Fisher German

We have seen more mixed holdings, dairy farms and smaller land parcels offered across the West Midlands.

Many properties remain on the market after summer and autumn marketing campaigns.

We have also acted in several private transactions, which resulted in significant acreage changing hands without market exposure. 

Debt and retirement continue to be a feature of why owners are selling.

More private investors and corporate entities are acquiring land, with less competition from farmer buyers and institutional investors.

As we head into 2026, we expect demand, driven by a variety of buyer profiles, to remain firm where farms and land are appropriately priced.

Farmers and landowners with development capital will seek larger commercial opportunities, often beyond their geographical areas, especially when local supply is limited.

Farmer buyers will likely focus on local and neighbouring properties where there is potential for expansion while spreading  costs efficiently.

We foresee a significant proportion of land and farms trading privately and have several opportunities already lined up. 

Annabel Fearnall, partner, Barbers Rural

The year has been one of contrasts and recalibration for the West Midlands land market.

It has been resilient despite wider economic uncertainty, and demand for productive farmland continues to outstrip supply.

Well-located arable and grassland parcels achieved strong values in 2025, particularly when they offered buyers opportunities for expansion or had long-term strategic potential.

Interest from rollover buyers, environmental investors and neighbouring farming businesses has been buoyant, resulting in bidding for quality land.

Conversely, sales of land with limiting factors have been more challenging.

Weather played a role in shaping farming performance but, despite one of the driest summers the region has experienced in decades, it did little to dent the appetite for land.

Policy changes affecting the role farmers play in the food supply chain and proposed tax reforms have created significant uncertainty though.

Overall, 2025 highlighted the challenges and the resilience of the farming sector.

It is difficult to predict the quantity of land that will come to the market in 2026, but we expect good quality land to be sought after, and perhaps a softening for medium and lower quality land.

What sold well in 2025

Kineton Grange Farm, Warwickshire, was marketed by Fisher German as a highly desirable arable farm.

It has 240 acres, a range of buildings with long-term development potential, a principal farmhouse and a secondary dwelling.

Launched at a guide price of £5.75m, it sold to an expanding farming business.

A former dairy farm, near Whitchurch, Shropshire, was sold at close to its guide price of £2.35m to a business with intentions to develop the site.

New Farm was sold with 115 acres, buildings in need of improvement, a period farmhouse, and a bungalow with an agricultural occupancy condition.

It had been offered in five lots, but was sold as a whole by Barbers Rural.

What’s on the market?

The Baston Hall Estate in Alfrick, Worcestershire, has a guide price of £4.25m. Its 138 acres are mostly regeneratively farmed pasture.

There is a six-bedroom house, a barn conversion, further residential accommodation, leisure facilities and entertaining areas.

Fisher German is marketing it as a whole or in two lots.

Park Farm, a 68-acre livestock farm at Crowley, near Northwich, Cheshire, is on the market at offers of over £1.7m.

Selling agent Barbers Rural says it is ideal for fatstock or youngstock.

It has modern farm buildings, a farmhouse with an agricultural occupancy condition, and potential to develop another dwelling.