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Australian farmland prices tripled across decade
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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8/16/2024
The prices for farmland in Australia has tripled over the past decade, outpacing housing and the cost of living.
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00:00
Kim Howes is doing her daily check of some of the many thoroughbred racehorses at her
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adjustment complex.
00:08
They're here to have a nice break, to relax their brain, to grow, just to have a break
00:15
from the everyday rigours of racing.
00:18
So we try to provide a nice calm environment where they can truly relax and have a holiday.
00:26
This is the Bellarine Peninsula on the coastal plain west of Melbourne, one of the fastest
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growing lifestyle regions in the country, where the influx of people is putting pressure
00:36
on land use and land prices.
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So yes there are pressures.
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I think we're safe for a little while and we certainly love living here and we love
00:44
the peace and tranquillity of it, but it's just reality, the houses are coming.
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It's a common story, not just in coastal regions, but across much of Australia.
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Farmland values across the board have seen a recent meteoric rise.
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It's a stunning number, the land values have tripled over the last 10 years.
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It's been a strong run too across the decade in most parts of the country.
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We track the data each year and produce a report which does look back over 29 years
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and around 280 odd thousand transactions have happened over that period of time, but it
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really has taken off in the last five years, very strong.
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In a banking career spanning 37 years, Andrew Smith of Rural Bank has closely charted farmland
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values and never, till now, has seen such a sustained surge.
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Yeah, we saw a real supply of rural properties in those peri-urban zones around regional
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cities, metropolitan Melbourne and Sydney and people looking to move out.
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The bank is the agricultural division of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank.
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Its annual farmland value report is based on an analysis of sales of more than 40 hectares
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in size for prices and locations.
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The report also reveals who has been buying what land.
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When you look at the number of transactions that happen each year, there's certainly those
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larger institutional type investors who might have been buying or selling, but it's really
02:15
been dominated by the family farms and in most parts of the country as well, so that
02:20
does require confidence and I guess when you've got interest rates quite low and the appetite
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and bank balance is fairly strong, there was a real push to expand in that period.
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