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Political uncertainty is affecting buyers and sellers, says Knight Frank

This week from ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian readers: Duncan Pickard, Balmullo, discusses the difficulties of turning a profit in agriculture

Land is still in demand in Scotland

James and Isobel, with their two young children, recently bought their first farm, and plan to run beef and sheep over 13.8 hectares (34 acres), renting a further 44.5ha (110 acres). James works for tech firm Breedr as a product manager. You can follow them on Twitter @jpbwfarm.

A Committee report found the approach of Part 1 of the Bill was ‘potentially burdensome and bureaucratic'

Rob Black said often tenants make assumptions of their landlords and vice versa. He said there was a need for more ‘genuine conversations’ encouraging landlords and tenants to ‘sit down and talk to each other’

Tenant ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Association said they had asked the Treasury if it knew how many APR/BPR claims were made from landlords with multiple tenancies, and was told it could not provide the data

Knight Frank’s Farmland index showed bare agricultural land in England and Wales hit an all-time high in Q1

It follows a dramatic increase in values in recent years due to demand from commercial forestry and natural capital investors

Farmland values have continued to rise so far in 2023, despite uncertainty in the economy and prices declining in the general property market.