Does rental land ever get advertised?

Phil P

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Arable Farmer
Location
North West
As above, usually we will have a good idea if something local is coming up and make enquiries. However, are land agent will send us tender forms on occasion as he know we’re always looking.
The last block we got was purely through word of mouth, the estate had only advertised it with there current tenants and someone asked me if I’d be interested. I’ll be honest, I was short to actually get it.
 

Boysground

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
In my experience only for the agent to confirm to the landlord that the rent the new tenant will pay he has already selected is about right.

Had it twice over the years and I wasn’t the Shoe In. Still annoyed about 1 of them.

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Brisel

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Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
Does Arable land for rent ever get advertised? Or is it always sorted out ‘internally’?. I’m beginning to think that way .............:unsure::unsure:

It's a bit of a closed shop, but some is advertised in the farming press e.g. county council farms. It's not what you know, it's who you know. Demand exceeds supply many times over in most places. Hopefully that will change in the next few years & rents will drop to more realistic levels.
 

Salopian_Will

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BASE UK Member
Location
Shropshire
From my experience having let farms for a number of charitable clients throughout the country:

Where it is a standalone farm and it comes vacant in all cases it was advertised in the farmers weekly. Despite looking after 20,000 + acres for different institutional landlords, I would do one or two per year (max) so they are rarely available.

Very generally those who missed out on farms, and moaned about rents being too high, put together the weakest bids . Yes we sometimes had some chancer bids that had nothing to substantiate it - often a parent with a non-farming business to subsidise a farming hobby for a son or daughter who had no clue! The standout candidates, disregarding rental level, were generally at the top end of the bids received.

For smaller blocks or farms within an existing estate or holding, Landlords generally want their tenants to prosper and so will let to existing tenants at a sensible rent. It often gets termed as being a 'closed shop' but I know most existing tenants would like to be treated in that manner.

Those who make contact and ask to be considered for future opportunities generally will be, it is just that it happens very infrequently.
 
As above, unless it is for an entire farm or a serious block of land then stuff locally around here is a done deal between parties and no one ever knows about it. You do hear of exorbitant rents being offered/demanded but you never know if that is just smoke or mirrors.

If I owned 200 acres around here I'd have it rented out and pocket the cash, lots of people do it.
 
Does Arable land for rent ever get advertised? Or is it always sorted out ‘internally’?. I’m beginning to think that way .............:unsure::unsure:

I have 3/4 of my rented land 4 lots of land from advertised farms which were let on the basis of a tender
I was not known to the owners before tendering
agent would have known me on a business level

my success rate is less than 50 % been shortlisted a few times with out success and took a few years before I won a tender
not rented any land without a tender other than through family
 

Goffer

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Yorkshire
Well for what it’s worth , farm well your own , pay your bills and rents on time . Treat others land as your own if you get the chance . Reputation is everything and landlords want a tidy , paid up going on .
 

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