Liz Hurley has taken advantage of a rise in the price of farmland to sell her 400-acre estate in Gloucestershire for £9m, but that does not mean that the number of people planning to move from the town to the countryside is on the wane.
Data from Strutt & Parker show non-farmers accounted for 17% of all purchases of farmland in Q1. Farmers accounted for 44%, while 22% went to private investors.
Savills confirms the trend, with data showing lifestyle buyers were the main buyer group for farms in H1.
