Agricultural
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Best gains come from investment farmland
Investment farmland has provided buyers with better returns over the last 10 years than even prime London homes.
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Investors eye farmland yield
Many investors are looking seriously at farmland as the cost has risen a third since 2012 to more than £8,000 per acre.
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204,000-hectare Texas ranch for sale
A list of 600 interested buyers for a 204,000-hectare ranch in Texas has been reduced to just 12.
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Farmland outperforms
Farmland has outperformed both the FTSE 100 index and house prices over the last 10 years, increasing by around 200% in value as investors look for safe havens.
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Gone with the wind subsidy
Across the UK, from Argyllshire to mid-Wales, residents’ campaign groups – or nimbys, to you and me – are quietly celebrating.
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Rural focus: Get off my land!
Rural landowners don’t respond to the same inducements as other landowners and are often reluctant to sell to corporate entities.
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Rural: get off my land
Money isn’t everything, even if the money offered is £275m. This was the sum Sussex farmer Robert Worsley turned down in May
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High Court rules on old bridleways
A ruling by the High Court that old bridleways can be converted into public rights of way could see landowners forced to allow walkers access to their land.
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UK countryside being lost to development
The UK’s forests, agricultural lands and wetlands are being lost to golf courses, housing, roads and wind farms, with a survey showing 1% of the countryside, or 224,200 hectares, being…
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Australian cattle stations for sale
An estate of cattle stations in Australia is being offered for sale at £175m via Ernst & Young.
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Scottish land reform proposals revealed
Proposals included as part of Scotland’s land reform bill will enable the Scottish government to force landowners to sell land, and could also impose business rates on estates holding commercial…
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Rural life under the Tories
What lies in store for the countryside and the rural economy under the new government?