Investors offered rural opportunities

The agency has listed several farm shareholding opportunities over recent months.

Spokesman Scott Cordes said proportional ownership was becoming more common in the rural sector.

“Otherwise known as syndication in the commercial and industrial sector – where a syndicator sells down a set number of titles into, in the case of the rural sector, a farm. There may be 150 titles being sold by the syndicator in, for example, $75,000 portions.”

He said in other situations, farmers were selling off slicesof their farms while holding on to other bits – for example, selling off coastal land which had increased in value.