Land

An expert in rural real estate shares his top tips for first-time farm buyers.

Farms part of cyclone buyout plans, Feds predicts.

Rural property market half as active as this time last year.

Move to counter what firm calls material undervaluation of assets and free cash flow.

Hawke’s Bay council working on ‘template for recovery’ that champions farmers alongside trees.

Median price per hectare on sales of other farm types over the past year all showed increases.

The Nature Conservancy offers proven new thinking on flood plains.

NZ Rural Land is eyeing European investors to make up rights issue shortfall.

Two years on, Allied exercising call option on the rest of NZRLM.

Capital raising round to help buy $64m of forestry land in Manawatū-Whanganui.

Government has to ‘stop allowing emitters to offset all their emissions’.

The decision to sell came with renewed confidence, almost like a man who has finally been able to come up for air after years.

Ingka Group granted permission to convert sheep, beef and deer farm to forestry.

Low-carbon rural land globally is an ‘increasingly scarce resource’.

‘Not possible to get a national map accurate at the paddock level.’

Real Estate Institute of NZ flags concerning trends.

‘Important issues’ have since come to light.

NZ Pork says productive land policy could impact pig farming.

Forever Farming NZ plans to buy Mangaohane Station by raising an estimated $45 million.

I do not want a 20-something with a degree in conservation telling me what I can’t do on my property, says Alan Emerson

Rural and urban strategies must back up policy on productive land

Halfway Bay Station on Lake Wakatipu sold to investors

Unproductive land makes up the vast majority being planted.

Growers’ lobbying bears fruit in new policy on protecting NZ’s best land from urban sprawl.

The Government has approved the sale of more than 4000ha of farmland for conversion to forestry by foreign buyers.

Pastoral lessees are uncertain what the impact will be of new public access provisions about to become law.

The possibility foreign buyers purchasing land for forestry may face a more onerous pathway to do so has been proposed by Forestry Minister Stuart Nash.

STRONG dairy farm sales activity in the second half of last year shows renewed confidence in the national dairy market as the sector moves into 2022, Colliers national director of rural & agribusiness James Nilsson says.

A last minute addition to the Crown Pastoral Land Reform Bill will require purchasing leaseholders to make greater efforts to provide better public access when buying a lease.