Ag’s land sale values leap 9.3pc

Andrew Marshall
May 20 2017 - 12:00pm
FarmBuy Real Estate
BUY UP: More than 230,000 commercial farm transactions accounted for 278 million hectares of farmland sold Australia-wide in 2016, worth a combined value of $132 billion.
BUY UP: More than 230,000 commercial farm transactions accounted for 278 million hectares of farmland sold Australia-wide in 2016, worth a combined value of $132 billion.

LAST year was a big one for Australia’s rebounding farmland prices, with median settlement values rising 9.3 per cent to almost double the gains achieved in 2015.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall

National agribusiness writer

Andrew Marshall is the group agribusiness writer for ACM's state agricultural weeklies and websites. He is a former editor at The Land and has worked in various Rural Press group roles in Canberra, North Richmond (NSW) and Toowoomba (Qld).

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