From a single paddock to a whole Estate …
Farms and component parts including farmhouses, cottages, farm buildings, commercial units, bare land, woodland, quarries, lakes and river banks, together with fishing or sporting rights …
Most transactions involving agricultural property require specialist advice to ensure that specific issues and potential pitfalls are effectively dealt with.
Such issues include: rights of way, access over open land, boundaries, water supplies, land drainage, planning controls, mines and minerals, agricultural quotas & subsidies, tenancies, VAT & tax planning, common land, Chancel Repair liabilities, re-development opportunities and resolving title problems.
Any transaction involving just part of an agricultural property raises important issues for splitting the owner's legal title. Other transactions related to a lease, easement or wayleave agreement for highway improvements, pipelines, cables or telecommunications masts may also involve agricultural land.