Farms sold in New Zealand
May 22, 2019
These details are drawn from the Real Estate Institute monthly reports for April 2019, and focus only on farm sales - excluding lifestyle blocks.
The market recorded 111 sales, which is -5.1% below the same month last year and -24.0% below the average April over the past four years.
The median price per hectare was $22,624 in March 2019, -3.2% lower than March, and -17.2% below April 2018.
Compared to April 2018, lower average prices applied across Finishing, Forestry and Horticulture farms.
April 2019 sales included:
7 arable farms,
12 dairy farms,
35 finishing units,
1 forestry properties,
34 grazing properties,
18 horticultural farms,
4 special farms
The number of sales is presented here, without the average price, because average prices bounce around dramatically depending on the size and type of business unit being sold. However, the following table sets out the median prices per hectare over the past three months, as reported by REINZ.
| $/ha - April 2019 | All | Arable | Dairy | Finishing | Forestry | Grazing | Hort | Special |
| New Zealand | 22,624 | 26,284 | 30,243 | 30,878 | 13,299 | 10,640 | 282,586 | 27,576 |
| Northland | 17,474 | 27,622 | 14,630 | 26,004 | 13,038 | 197,443 | 35,830 | |
| Auckland | 42,722 | 27,587 | 23,521 | 52,692 | 12,535 | 651,578 | 53,911 | |
| Waikato | 32,968 | 67,028 | 34,214 | 40,883 | 12,035 | 421,875 | ||
| Bay of Plenty | 264,602 | 108,733 | 46,203 | 47,944 | 17,673 | 31,503 | 427,905 | |
| Gisborne | 122,078 | 8,737 | 173,140 | |||||
| Hawkes Bay | 10,875 | 184,458 | 23,976 | 8,269 | 165,198 | |||
| Taranaki | 25,863 | 17,216 | 36,499 | 51,408 | 22,385 | 10,355 | ||
| Wang/Manawatu | 18,514 | 16,816 | 20,809 | 25,199 | 8,744 | 7,707 | ||
| Wellington | 11,947 | 22,296 | 36,923 | 22,500 | 11,054 | 26,990 | ||
| Nelson | 24,620 | 2,762 | 27,872 | 40,912 | 23,416 | 10,078 | 54,350 | |
| West Coast | 7,555 | 12,510 | 6,104 | 7,555 | ||||
| Canterbury | 22,395 | 37,850 | 11,446 | 26,225 | 3,843 | 9,200 | 27,576 | |
| Otago | 19,408 | 18,274 | 25,518 | 31,188 | 4,183 | 8,773 | 17,052 | |
| Southland | 16,805 | 7,842 | 32,738 | 23,553 | 13,740 |
You can find current farms for sale and listed on the market here.
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