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14 Apr 2009 | Global demand pushes up rural property prices
Offshore corporate, private equity firms, investment managers and funds are pushing up rural property prices for high quality established operations, especially in northern Australia. ...... FULL STORY
6 Apr 2009 | Sugar country leads property investment boom
Prices for Australian agricultural properties began to drop off in the final quarter of 2008 after climbing ten per cent says a report on global farm property prices from Knight Frank. ...... FULL STORY
26 Feb 2009 | Run on top end cattle stations continues
Top End rural property deals worth more than $450 million are now underway *or* have been completed in the last two months. More than one billion dollars of land deals are underway in northern Australia if deals in north Queensland are included. ...... FULL STORY
24 Feb 2009 | Rural property sales and values slide
The number of rural properties sold for more than $1.5 million in NSW last year fell to 550 from 900 in 2007 according to valuer Herron Todd White. ...... FULL STORY
9 Feb 2009 | US pension fund buying up Aussie crop farms
International Agricultural Investors, a $40 million investment fund owned by the US based Westchester Group, has bought more than $50 million worth of rural properties in Australia in the last six months. ...... FULL STORY
14 Jan 2009 | Scores takes grants to leave the land
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry said 107 farmers across Australia were paid up to $150,000 to sell their properties and stop farming for at least five years. ...... FULL STORY
12 Jan 2009 | Sales glut may cut farm values
More rural properties than usual look like hitting the market in 2009. There may be more forced sales due to the credit crunch and reduced commodity prices. ...... FULL STORY
29 Sep 2008 | Farmers go further into debt
Average farm debt has risen to about $420,000 per farm according to the latest figures from ABARE. Increasing land values have allowed most broad acre farmers to maintain more than 85 per cent equity in their properties. ...... FULL STORY
4 Sep 2008 | Higher prices boost dairy farm incomes
Financial performance of Australian dairy producers improved in 2007-08 in the wake of higher milk prices according to a new ABARE report. ...... FULL STORY
11 Aug 2008 | Investors target distressed farmers
Financially distressed rural properties at the top of the Murray Darling are being bought by insolvency specialist PPB Group in a $135 million spend that is being described as opportunistic. ...... FULL STORY
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