Rural land prices in the UK set to fall in 2016, says RICS

Rural land prices in the UK are expected to fall throughout 2016 due to a global drop in crop prices, according to the latest report from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Some with 34% more rural surveyors expect to see prices drop than rise which could make rural property more attractive to non-farmers. Across all farming sectors, demand for rural land is expected to fall over the next 12 months. While in the last half of 2015, the only areas where demand for land grew were ...