UK The largest farmland sale this year is in prospect as Earl Compton, heir apparent to the Marquess of Northampton, is to market his 3,000-acre Surrey estate.
The estate, 18 miles from the City of London, will have a price tag of around £25m ($40m). Savills, the selling agent, said it had been instructed “in order to take advantage of investment opportunities elsewhere”. The estate was bought in the early 1940s by the earl’s family.
