Land is new cash crop as investors plough in

26 February 2010

Golden gates: investors have taken over from hobby farmers in rush for farmland

Source: Joelle Depont

Farmland prices rose in the second half of 2009 as land once again became an attractive investment, and landowners’ reluctance to sell pushed supply to “exceptionally low” levels, says the latest RICS rural market survey

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