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1. AGENCY SALES & EQUESTRIAN LETTINGS - ESTATE & AUCTION
Fox Grant are Leading Rural Estate Agents & Regional Auctioneers with a proven track record in achieving premium prices for Rural, Equestrian and Auction properties. We offer free specialist market appraisals and professional pre-sales advice. Our guidance will help you decide on the best time to sell your property and improvements (desirable or necessary) that need implementing beforehand to achieve the best price. We take into account whether sites have development potential based on our knowledge of planning policy and reflect any deemed potential in our valuations, opinion and marketing advice. Our award winning marketing helps increase the end value for you or your clients.
Fox Grant Expertise Offers:
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· Country House & Premium Property Specialists · Country Estates & Farms · Leading Equestrian Specialists (UK No. 1 H&H) · Commercial Farms · Smallholdings (UK No.1 in Farmers Weekly C.P.) · Specialist Equestrian Letting & Management Agents |
· Leading Auction Specialist (No.6 in SW) · Commercial - Shops · Buildings & Land · Land & New Homes - Development Sites. |
Fox Grant are leading rural agency specialists. We focus on valuations, marketing, negotiating, sales and equestrian lettings.
2. VALUATIONS
As specialist rural estate agents, Fox Grant offer free market appraisals throughout the South & West of England. From our regional offices (Salisbury, Tisbury & Ledbury) the company offers truly specialist pre-sales marketing advice in preparation for sale or equestrian letting. We also carry out market appraisals and valuations for Probate, matrimonial, internal family transfer, finance and internal tax reasons (CGT or IHT purposes).
For further advice please use the Request a Valuation Email Form to send your details to us and one of our agents will contact you by return to discuss your requirements and arrange a confidential appointment at your convenience.
If you prefer to speak directly with a director or agent, please call us now on:
· 01722 782727 for Salisbury & Tisbury - William Grant
· 01935 815391 for Sherborne – James Law
3. PLANNING
There is a finite supply of land in the UK and a complex planning system. Fox Grant recognises the importance of planning expertise when assessing a site’s potential. In addition to the experience of its agents, Fox Grant has strategic relationships with leading planning specialists with expert knowledge of the West Country who can offer advice on optimising the potential use of the site, or investigate sympathetic opportunities for rural diversification.
For professional advice on enhancing the potential of your property, buildings or land, or to understand the best way to interpret national government and regional policy planning guidelines - call a member of the Fox Grant team on 01722 782727 for further advice.
4. RURAL FINANCE
Fox Grant have access to some of the most competitive rural mortgages and finance for the purchase of rural and equestrian property, including those with agricultural / equestrian occupancy restrictions or businesses. Call us today on 0800 988 2332 to find out about more flexible finance - whether for substantial country houses, land, farms and estates.
Financing your dream property can seem fraught with obstacles once land is involved and not all the high street lenders are swift to respond or necessarily user friendly in providing you with mortgage offers.
Whether you are seeking loan finance for residential or commercial farms, equestrian businesses or even visitor attractions - talk to Fox Grant who will put you directly in touch with the leading, rural lenders. Put yourself in the most flexible purchasing position to bid with confidence and make your money work for you to proceed with confidence and access speedy mortgage valuations and advice.
Fox Grant are not mortgage advisors and cannot give advice to individuals on their loan requirements - however they know the professionals who can – call us on 0800 988 2332 or email us today.
5. MARKETING
5.1 INTERNET MARKETING
THE WORLD WIDE WEB
The internet is the No.1 marketing tool in property agency the internet now produces around 80%+ of all enquiries for Fox Grant. It gives Worldwide, International, National and Regional coverage 24:7 for 365 days/year for all vendors/landlords and purchasers/tenants. It is quick and easy to use.
KEY Facts on Fox Grant website – last 12 months:
· Site viewed from 116 different Countries
· Top 6 Countries – UK, USA, France, Ireland, Australia & Germany
· 35% of UK enquiries come from London
· Top 6 Cities – London, Birmingham, Reading, Milton Keynes, Manchester & Bristol
· Vendors/Purchasers spend over 4.24 mins on average on our site and view over 8 Pages
· 25% of visitors come direct to our site – as a result of our very high BRAND awareness
· We have a very low bounce rate at 5%, way below the UK benchmark of 45%.
FOX GRANT WEBSITE
Fox Grant have invested heavily in their website (www.foxgrant.com) to ensure that all of our vendor’s properties are fully marketed and that purchasers can easily find properties to buy or let via the leading search engines such as Google, Yahoo and AOL etc and all of the leading UK property portals.
Our site ranks very highly on the leading search engines and gets over 100,000 unique visits per month.
PROPERTY PORTALS
Fox Grant’s website is linked to all of the leading national property portals and reference sites including:
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No 1 UK Premium Brand Property Portal |
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Add Fox Grant to your favourites list today, send to a friend and keep in regular contact with the current state of play in the rural property market, or just call us on 0800 988 2332.
5.2 SPECIALIST NATIONAL & REGIONAL ADVERTISING
Fox Grant knows that successful marketing depends on understanding that each property is different and the advertising needs to be tailored accordingly. Over 25% of all buyers come from this source.
Fox Grant advertises across 20-30 publications including Country Life, Farmers Weekly (ranked No.1 in UK in Country Properties advertising), Horse & Hound (ranked No.1 in UK for volume of advertising), broadsheet press including The Times, Daily Telegraph, FT as well as specialist press including South West Farmer, as well as some of the most extensive local and regional advertising of any agent throughout the South & West of England.
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No. 1 UK Advertiser in Country Property |
No. 1 UK Advertiser in Horse & Hound Display |
We will create a bespoke strategy on each sale, agreed in advance with the client and aim to reach the maximum number of buyers across the widest and most appropriate media. This regularly results in enquiries from the major cities and from all over the world (at the last count over 116 different countries) including USA, Hong Kong, China and Northern Europe. However over 90% of buyers are from London or the UK.
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FOR SALE BOARDS
Fox Grant use distinctive For Sale boards which have a proven track record in attracting a high volume (12%) of enquiries from passing traffic and word of mouth. There is one thing for sure – you cannot miss a Fox Grant Board.
5.4 BROCHURES
Fox Grant will produce professionally printed, high quality, glossy brochures - fully describing the property with sale plans, floorplans and location maps for ease of reference. You can download pdf Brochures from the website.
5.5 PREPARATIONS
We aim to provide the highest standards of brochure presentation and can offer a range of in-house and professionally printed brochure options to make your sale successful.
Fox Grant believes that the best results come from working only with other leading professionals:
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Jon Stone Professional Photographer |
Judeth Dashwood Printer - Baskerville Press Salisbury |
Keith Banks Floor Planner Floorplans Southern Ltd |
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Production Department Printer - FE Burmans London |
Laurence Toomer Signwriter - T-Signs |
Dave Poulton Boards Man |
If you have ever requested any of Fox Grant’s professionally printed brochures, or seen our Sale Boards, the credit and our thanks go to our contractors some of whom are shown above.
6. FARM, LAND MANAGEMENT & PROFESSIONAL ADVICE
6.1 PROFESSIONAL ADVICE
All of the senior staff at Fox Grant are trained and experienced in Estate and Farm Management. We have over 50 years practical farming and estate management experience and have acted for some of the leading landowners in the UK (Including Lord Bathurst, Lord Suffolk and Lord & Lady Vestey).
To discuss your Estate, Farm or Smallholding, to check on grant availability or effective ways to maintain and enhance the quality of your holding, call us in the first instance for a brief FREE telephone conversation to:
· William Grant at the Salisbury office on 01722 782727
· James Law at the Sherborne office on 01935 815391
All subsequent advice and visits will be charged on a time plus cost basis at the prevailing hourly rate which will be based on the skills and experience of the member of staff involved.
6.2 INTRODUCTIONS
If we can not help you we will refer you to leading rural experts who can help.
6.3 USEFUL RURAL LINKS
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Business & Country Landowners Association |
National Farmers Union (Support & Guidance) |
Allen Planning Rural Planning Advice (contact via Fox Grant) |
Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs |
