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EXITSWINGLEVERAGECARRYFRAUDNO RECOURSEBARRIEREXPERTISE
  • Agricultural land 53 Tough An asset whose shape is set as much by tax policy as by the land — and the policy has just moved.
  • Timber & forestry 56 Tough Slow, tax-advantaged and quietly growing — the one asset whose quantity increases while you wait.
  Agricultural land Timber & forestry
Exit difficulty 5 5
Volatility 2 2
Leverage 3 2
Carry cost 2 3
Fraud risk 2 2
Protection gap 3 4
Barrier to entry 4 4
Expertise needed 4 4
Difficulty 53 Tough 56 Tough
In a sentence Productive land that has for decades been valued for its tax treatment and its scarcity at least as much as for what it grows.Land that grows its own return, taxed unusually favourably in the UK, and increasingly bought for carbon rather than for planks.
Unit Acre or hectare Hectare of plantation; cubic metre of standing timber
Smallest realistic trade Typically a field, realistically a farm A small woodland, from tens of thousands of pounds
Settlement Months, through agents and solicitors Conveyancing, as for land

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