Agh!! Just found out the yard I'm on is for sale....

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Dreamily googling for properties I could buy with my lottery win (which hasn't yet materialised!) and I found out that the yard I'm on is for sale!!

Now this is the only yard that I have found that has excellent hacking, safe stables and a trust worthy YO. Going to speak to her about it tomorrow, as need to know where I stand...but looks like I'm going to have to start looking for somewhere else to stable. Could wait it out, but the yard is technically a stud, and not rated for livery use, so whoever ends up buying it may not want the liveries to stay.

Just need to stay calm, and not stress about it now!!
 
i was on a yard thatwas put up for sale a few years ago, and i had a bit of a panic, but as it happens it still hadnt sold when i left a couple of years later, slow market :)

good luck with finding somewhere if it goes though
 
Speak to you YO, but I really wouldn't worry too much. The yard I am on is up for sale, but its tough enough selling a house, let alone a massive yard!!
By all means look around for another yard, just in case, but you never know, the new owners may want to keep it as a livery yard.

Hope all is ok
 
Thanks, think a deep breath and glass of wine is in order....its shocked me more than anything as (i thought) YO and I were good friends, socialise away from horses etc, so would have expected her to be upfront about it. Understand why she didn't from a business point of view, but just a little taken aback.
 
Very slow market out there and even if it did sell you may find that you would be able to stay as an existing livery, it is after all guaranteed income for the prospective new owner. Even if you do have to move it may be a positive thing, I was forced to move yards a few years ago and was horrified..it turned out to be a great move, meeting loads of new friends and horses settled brilliantly. Although I totally understand your shock at finding out your yard is for sale.
 
I'm in the same position as you even down to the fact that it's a small stud and not really a livery yard. Hacking there is good too. My YO is emigrating as soon as they can sell up :-( There isn't anywhere else locally that has the access to the hacking we do (not without crossing a dual carriageway and doing lots of road work) plus it's a reasonably friendly mix of people there (the odd stirrer!) and only 8 of us liveries. My mare was born there and I've been there for 15 years.
I really don't know what I will do when it sells.

Good luck - I hope you find somewhere suitable for you!
 
I'd try not to worry too much,
I am a YO and my place is for sale (i only rent the yard, have done for 10 years). At first i was paniced by it, as anyone would, so were my liveries but it's on the market for £4.5 million... and even though it's a nice house, with cottages etc, imo - it's overpriced, needless to say, its been on the market a couple of years now.

What is your local area like for stables? If you are in an area without many yards, and the yard owner is desperate to sell, i'd prob be tempted to move if the right yard comes up. Otherwise, i think i would stay put and see what happens.

If it does get sold, i would imagine yoy would get a few weeks notice. and if you get really stuck... i am also in lancashire and you could always turn your horse out in one of our fields until you found somewhere.
 
Might sound really silly....but is it definately not an old advert? Old yard we had is still ladvertised as up for sale but isn't, they just never took it down.

Very rare but trying to be optimistic lol!

Sorry :( Hope everything sorts out x
 
Our yard is up for sale but they've not had a whiff of interest since it went on the market in February. They had dwindled the liveries down to five but have now realised that it may take a while and have filled us up again to 12. They want to sell it as a going concern. Like you I had a major panic when I found out because I really love my yard, but then realised that if it does get taken over we wouldn't have to go anywhere so decided to stop worrying until there was something definite to actually worry about!

Market is incredibly slow so it could takes aaaaaages yet :)
 
Well, take heart-we were supposed to move our horses out of their farm by some time in 2008 because it was going to be part of a housing development, we're still there and although there's a lot of work going on in various places nearby there's no sign of us moving for the foreseeable future.
 
Thanks all, had a chat with YO and given the price tag it has on it, I don't think it will 'fly off the shelves'! I will keep looking at yards around us, incase it does end up being sold, but not rush into anything!

Teach
 
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