Land Registry details may tell you the answer although if the property has been in the same ownership for many years that may not be enou...

The Basic Payment Scheme is going to change in a few years' time, particularly when Brexit has been accomplished. The present Minister ha...

Is it easy to buy a property?  The answer may be 'No'. First of all you have to find it and that's not just looking in the right places -...

Or is it the cows? If you stop by the Salisbury Christmas Prize Show & Sale being held at Salisbury Market you can see for yourself. It c...

As soon as John mentioned he had been invited to commence the auction at the recent Ovington Down Farm Machinery & Implements Sale I deci...

Perhaps it was Danny Boyle's amazing opening ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics that highlighted for many of us the change in Britain'...

Valuations seem to have been coming in thick and fast lately. They are always interesting as every property and every assignment is indiv...

A long time ago, 'Gentleman's Agreements' were all that were needed for two parties to settle the terms when transacting property arrange...

There are in fact strict timescales for carrying out this work, so that nesting birds are not disturbed and annual growth and blossom is ...

Nowadays, it is unlikely that they will be seated on the ground! And, in the UK, they are unlikely to be out in the open, or all gathered...

A question non-farming people often ask is what is the difference between winter and spring cereals. The crops are the same - wheat, barl...

Once an important quarter day in the calendar year of the farming world. Traditionally, especially in the south of England with arable fa...

A rural chartered surveyor's remit may also include a traditional land agency role of managing a landowner's property on his behalf which...

Mixed reports for 2016 in South Wiltshire, West Hampshire and Dorset. Abundant grass crops in a growing year with third cuts being gather...

Valuations featured this week. This time for Inheritance Tax purposes as a much-loved grandfather had died. The property was a special New...

It is perhaps the variety of work we undertake which I find to be as unexpected as it is often fulfilling. This was the national news was...

This week brought the first heatwave of this summer and 30 degree temperatures. Harvest started with the winter barley. Oil seed rape wil...