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Spring is nearly here - time for the rural property market to catch up with the rest of the country!

Many farm owners and share milkers may be failing to properly manage the risks associated with their provision of on-farm accommodation to employees – and those risks are set to increase under updated provisions of the Residential Tenancies Act (RTA). 

Not everything affecting your farm’s sale will be under your control. Far from it. There will always be a range of industry- or region-wide issues that need to be managed—or perhaps just waited out.

The property market will need to adjust as New Zealand agriculture moves into the new era of environmental regulation. Adjust it will, but only with some changed attitudes and practices among property buyers and sellers.