Equestrian Property

[dalidaydream]

We currently have our small equestrian property on the market with a local agent and are not getting much interest through them. I suspect they do not have the coverage required although they are on Rightmove. So quick question, if you are looking for an equestrian property where would you look. For example would you look on the Horse & Hound website?

Thanks for any help, it's much appreciated.

 

[JillA]

UK Land and Farms for one, and I have an alert on Primelocation because it has better filters than Rightmove. There is the new one being advertised too, don't know what it is like but I am told agents can only use two. I do browse H&H sometimes, also Farmers Guardian if you are in the NW (where are you?)

 

[teacups]

I wouldn't recommend the Horse and Hound website at the moment, as I can't seem to be able to search for certain areas since the redesign. They may have fixed that as I last tried a while ago.
Have a go at searching for a property: if a site works well for you then other users are also more likely to use it.
What about using ruralscene?

 

[teacups]

Also, which area are you in, roughly? Other users may know which sites are relevant and popular for your area of the UK.

 

[ElleSkywalkingintheair]

There are a few equestrian property websites and to be honest that's where I looked when buying an equestrian property as land often isn't easy to search for on more general estate agents websites.

The ones we looked at regularly were ea equestrian, uk land and farms, rural scene and rural and equestrian although there are others. There is also Churchill. If you look I the H & H there are usually some of the above with adverts of featured properties

 

[HeresHoping]

UK Land & Farms
Onthemarket.com
Home.co.uk (which is a collating site)
Rural & Equestrian
equestrianproperty4sale.com

To name a few. However, we do have alerts set up with all local agents so I guess it's just a matter of people knowing what they are looking for.

With our house, which does not have land but is nevertheless a substantial farmhouse in the Fens, we have opted to advertise with the more renowned agents, just to achieve the reach. The house location would be great for commuters (45 mins to Kings X) but it's in the agri-desert and really doesn't appeal to locals. So we hooked up with the likes of Savils, Strutt & Parker, etc. as opposed to Sharman Quinney. We will therefore hopefully have an ad in the London press.

 

[PorkChop]

When we were looking we searched all the popular google sites - locally we visited countryside estate agents, Savils, Strutt & Parker.

 

[dalidaydream]

That was quick, wow thank you. We're in Somerset.

Yes, the problem I find with Rightmove is that you can't put in any filters, I know Prime Location is better. I've just found UK Land & Farms - I don't know why they haven't put our property on there but they're about to get a rocket for that.

Thanks a lot for your help.

 

[JillA]

Rural Scene are agents in their own right, rather than compilations sites, so if you use them you could end up with joint agents (and more fees) unless you bin your existing agents.

 

[ahorseandadog]

Rural scene which is where I got my current yard from.

 

[LovesCobs]

i used zoopla for filters as i could put stables or acres. sometimes it gives you houses that are stable conversions or gardens that are an acre but overall it was better than right move. here i look at jackson equestrian as well but it has a few specific areas.
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[happyclappy]

I would look first at local Agents who specialise in Country properties, such as www.stags.co.uk

 

[case895]

Rightmove and Zoopla. I would not use the so-called specialist websites or go to agents directly.

 

[dalidaydream]

Interesting, some would and some woudn't go direct to agents. Apparently Zoopla is Prime Location by a different name and our agent prefers Rightmove and Onthemarket. Unfortunately neither of these use filters but we can't go on a third site apparently. I know when we were looking for this property Prime Location was a lot easier to find properties (by putting in stable, acre etc) but they really have very few by comparison with Rightmove. The agent won't come off Onthemarket as that is run by the agents themselves but I wonder if it would be worth switching from Rightmove to Prime Location/Zoopla.

Thank you for all your help.

 

[Sprout]

When I was looking I used Prime Location and Right Move, and also Savills, and Wooley and Wallis.

 

[Gift Horse]

I think it depends on the property. If it's a house with a few acres and a couple of stables - Right move & Primelocation

If it's a property with more potential - a larger acreage for example I would sell through a land agent. If it's an established yard with facilities I might try to get it seen by horse professionals through equestrian property websites. I've never done this I guess it's expensive.

Good luck with it, you will probably get more interest once the weather improves.