Buyer demand for agricultural land and farm sites with potential pushed receipts to £4.3m at Symonds & Sampson’s auction.
Some 21 of 25 lots sold at Sherborne’s Diggby Hall on 30 September, reflecting an 84% success rate.
Highlights included a farm in need of renovation in Hermitage, Dorset, which sold for its guide price of £750,000. The buyer also paid a further £800,000 for almost 10 hectares of adjoining land.
Two bare agricultural land sites in Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset, sold for well above their guides. The first, a 2.9-acre site, guided at £25,000, made £43,000, while the second, a 9-acre site, guided at £50,000, sold for £95,000.
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