Rural Property
Recognised as one of the UK’s leading law firms for rural property, Farrer & Co provides comprehensive legal services tailored to the modern rural landowner. From renewable energy projects and urban extensions to agricultural tenancy matters and large estate transactions, we offer unparalleled expertise to meet your needs.
Our dedicated team, which is the largest rural property practice in the UK, is renowned for delivering high-quality outcomes within tight deadlines. Clients trust our practical, commercially focused advice to achieve the best possible results.
Our rural property services
Farms and estates
Farrer & Co is a trusted partner for all rural property matters, providing expert advice to modern landowners. From complex agricultural tenancy agreements to major estate purchases, stewardship schemes, and sporting rights, we offer practical solutions that balance respect for heritage with commercial sustainability. With the UK’s largest rural property team, we deliver large-scale projects efficiently, offering responsive and pragmatic advice which is valued by our clients.
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Country houses
Buying or selling a country house is often complex, and can involve navigating intricate legal, tax, and planning challenges. Our team’s unrivalled expertise spans listed buildings, heritage assets, environmental and planning law, employment issues, and multi-jurisdictional trust structures. We handle transactions of nationally significant properties, delivering results efficiently with minimal fuss.
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Forestry and woodland
Forestry and woodland are valuable and complex asset classes requiring specialist knowledge. Our experienced team handles grant schemes, felling licences, public access concerns, and extraction viability, to ensure that transactions progress smoothly. We advise on ownership structures, tax strategies, and estate planning, offering commercially focused guidance to help clients maximise value.
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Minerals
As one of the UK’s few specialist mineral law practices, we advise landowners on leasing and option agreements for limestone, sand, gravel, and critical minerals. We are also active in the UK’s emerging lithium extraction industry. From manorial mineral rights to liability for historic workings, our experienced team ensures the right balance is struck between achieving commercial objectives and preserving long-term interests.
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Renewable energy
Few renewable energy projects are off the shelf, and they require tailored legal expertise to balance quick execution with appropriate landowner protection. With experience in wind, solar, hydro-electric, battery, and anaerobic digestion projects, we help clients integrate renewables ventures with their existing traditional and less traditional land uses, including natural capital and biodiversity schemes. Our team offers creative solutions for structuring, joint ventures, and funding.
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Natural capital
We support landowners in harnessing opportunities within natural capital markets. We advise on biodiversity net gain, habitat banking, carbon trading, nutrient neutrality, and other revenue-generating nature credit schemes. Our team ensures these initiatives align with the landowner’s broader tax planning strategy, and stewardship goals, and that the ancillary relationships with partners and investors, are formalised in robust, yet pragmatic, legal agreements.
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Placemaking
We specialise in sustainable residential and mixed-use developments that create long-lasting legacies. From flagship projects like the Duchy of Cornwall’s Poundbury and Nansledan developments to smaller village extensions, our expertise spans master planning, development agreements, construction, and estate management. We help estates realise their vision for 21st century placemaking.
Click below to see the latest Rural Estates Newsletter February 2025.
