There has been a surge in interest from private and institutional investors seeking to acquire land on which to carry out projects to restore and enhance our landscape and to sequester carbon. This interest now competes with the long established demands on our land such as for food, timber production, housing, green energy and amenity.

The ability to assess the current and potential natural capital of land has become vital to any strategy for the sale or purchase of rural land.

Our rural agency team have experience in identifying and valuing the natural capital of farms and estates and carrying out assessments of the potential of land for the provision and creation of nature based solutions, including woodland creation, peatland restoration, regenerative agriculture and landscape restoration or rewilding. This then enables us to identify opportunities to add value, whether working on a sale or a purchase.

Throughout these transactions, we are supported by natural capital specialists and our wider rural specialist teams in forestry, agriculture, planning and building consultancy, to provide a service that identifies natural capital opportunities and provides strategic advice around matching these opportunities to our clients’ wider objectives.

A network of rural agency specialists is spread strategically across the UK, bringing local, national and international insight to each transaction – this ensures we have great exposure to all markets and buyers both domestic and overseas.

How can savills help

• Assessments of existing and potential natural capital that land offers
• Sales of land
• Purchases of land