Market Intelligence Report
Review of the English farmland market October – December 2012 Values climb 5% in 2012 to end on record high levels whilst supply is at an historic low
Key points: • The average price climbed to £9,100 per acre in 4Q2012, up 5% in 2012; our model estimated 7% • Prices broke the £9,000 barrier for the first time in the year • Both bare and equipped land values are at historic high levels • Bare land values rose by 6% in the quarter to £7,000 per acre, up 17% in 2012 • Equipped land values remained at £9,700 per acre, up 3% since the start of the year • Just over 90,000 acres were marketed in 2012, a record low level • For 2013, our model estimates that values will rise 7%. However, this may be bullish and the rise could be lower. We expect bare land prices to increase faster than equipped land • We expect less than 100,000 acres for sale again as there are few forced sales and as landowners wait for details for the CAP reform
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All figures in this review are from our comprehensive database of all sales of publicly marketed farmland in England over 50 acres; they exclude sales where the residential value of the sale is greater than 50% of the total. Therefore all figures are transaction-based, not opinion - based, apart from the regional values which are from our farm agents.