Land and estate management

Land and estate management

Owning a landed estate, whether inherited or acquired, is simultaneously a responsibility and a privilege. Landed estates are not always about maximising profit; for the landowners it is often a matter of enhancing the landscape, protecting heritage assets, supporting communities and creating happy family homes as much as it is about the bottom line. Landed estates can comprise complicated businesses with diverse activities, usually focussed on long-term sustainability, rather than a short-term return. Forsters understands these intricacies; as a firm we have worked with landowners for generations.

We are one of very few practices offering specialist advice to landowners spanning tax and succession planning and urban and rural property matters, combined with expertise covering the protection of heritage assets, employment, planning, construction, corporate and litigation matters. We bring together these services to help landowners design and implement a coherent strategy for a thriving estate.

When it comes to land management, we know we have a team who can support you to achieve your objectives. Our team acts for over two hundred rural estates across the country of varying scale, use and composition, both for private and institutional landowners. Many of our clients have instructed Forsters (and our predecessor firm) for decades.

We take the long view and keep up to date on developments in the sector, as well as policy changes impacting rural business and planning. We advise on an ever-growing range of business activities, from traditional farming practices, both let and in hand, to tourism, rewilding and other means of diversification.

How we can help:

  • Asset protection
  • Succession planning
  • Tenancies
  • Easements
  • Trespass and nuisance
  • Telecoms leases
  • Compulsory Purchase
  • Boundary disputes
  • Subsidies and grant schemes
  • Minerals and manorial rights
  • Rivers
  • Employees
  • Unregistered land
  • Settled land
  • Covenants

Meet our team