The agricultural land price is the price of a hectare that farmers pay for freely available agricultural land. At the basis of the calculation of the price of land are the transactions in the property register of the Land Registry, supplemented with information about the agricultural sector.

The average rent price of one hectare of free agricultural land (arable land or grassland).

The rent prices are calculated on the basis of FADN in the Netherlands. 

NUTS classification

NUTS classification

Data on land prices are based on the information compiled based on the combination of various administrative data sources with records from the Land Registry Office that includes not only transactions of agricultural land, but all transactions of immobile ownership. However for the compilation of land price statistics only transactions of arable and permanent grassland are included

Data are based on the information from FADN that includes agricultural farms obtained from the agricultural census based on the stratified sample.

The  field of observations includes the arable land and/or permanent grassland sold to (or purchased from) private owners or estate agencies who sell land for agricultural use. It excludes transactions for non-agricultural purposes (lifestyle buyers, construction sites etc.), transactions of land between relatives and transactions of rented land.

According to the Netherlands Civil Code, an agricultural tenancy is ‘… a contract whereby one party, the lessor, undertakes to provide the other party, the tenant, with the use of immovable property or a part thereof for the purpose of the conduct of agriculture in consideration of the tenant's undertakings’ (art. 7:311, The Civil Code of the Netherlands). The rents represent basic amounts for the tenancy of agricultural land, excluding the rent for buildings.

At the basis of the calculation of the price of land are the transactions in the property register of the Land Registry, supplemented with information about the agricultural sector.

The rent prices are calculated on the basis of FADN in the Netherlands. 

The observation unit for land price statistics is the price of a hectare of agricultural land sold/purchased for agricultural use.

The observation unit represents the price of renting one hectare of agricultural land in the reference period.

For the determination of the agricultural land prices the traded parcels are selected on the following characteristics (between brackets the source):

• Buyer has a farm (Dutch-FSS).
• Grassland or arable land (Basic Registration of Parcels - BRP).
• Transaction form: deed of purchase-sale (Cadastral transaction).
• Type of ownership: full ownership (Cadastral transaction).
• No buildings (BAG).
• No regular lease or leasehold (BRP and Cadastral transaction).
• No family relationship (Cadastral transaction).
• Area parcel larger than 0.25 hectares (Cadastral transaction).
• The purchase price is greater than 1 euro (Cadastral transaction).

• All farms excluding horticultural farms (NSO main types 2 and 3).
• Selection per agricultural tenancy type with surface area of at least 1 hectare.
• Selection of agricultural tenancy type if the tenancy rate is at least 50 euros per hectare.

NUTS 0 (The Netherlands)

NUTS 1 (4 regions)

NUTS 2 (12 provinces)

NUTS 0 (The Netherlands)

NUTS 1 (4 regions)

NUTS 2 (12 provinces)

2011-2016

2011-2016

2011

2011

The data sources used have a legal base, therefore continuity is (in principle) guaranteed. The main data sources are:

• The Registry, a database from the Land Registry Office, that contains all land transactions in the Netherlands.
• The agricultural census, which is part of a combined data collection for subsidies (single payment scheme), enforcement of the manure law, and agricultural statistics. The combined data collection is compulsory and has a legal base.
• The Basic Parcel Registration, part of the monitoring tools for the CAP.

The basic system is the FADN, which has a legal base.

The other sources are:

• The agricultural census, which is part of a combined data collection for subsidies (single payment scheme), enforcement of the manure law, and agricultural statistics. The combined data collection is compulsory and has a legal base.
• The Basic Parcel Registration, part of the monitoring tools for the CAP. 

Round off to 100.

Round off to 10

Yes.

The Netherlands’ Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency – in short Kadaster – and Wageningen Economic Research (part of Wageningen University & Research) work together to provide this information.

Yes.

Wageningen Economic Research (part of Wageningen University & Research) collect and provide this information.

In EU-methodology the price of arable land and permanent grassland is a weighted average using total area of arable land and total area of grassland as weights on the different geographical levels (national, NUTS 1 and NUTS 2). Those data are provided by the Farm Structure Survey (FSS).

In the national methodology there is no correction based on the total area of arable land and total area of grassland.

Rental prices at the national level has been included on the Agro & food portal (agrimatie.nl) of Wageningen Economic Research. The most important differences between this figures and those based on the EU-methodology are:

(1)

EU-method: besides the sample for the FADN, data has been gained for a number of additional farms, to get sufficient observations at the regional level (NUTS 2).

The 'national' method is based on the FADN-farms.

(2)

EU-method: The average rent prices per province per year are based on the average tenancy rate for tenancies with price control (regular land lease) and tenancies without price control (other than regular, a.o liberalized land lease) according to the FADN, and weighted in line with the land area of these two types of tenancy according to the Agricultural Census. The aggregation to the country level is a weighted average using the area of the two types of tenancy in each province as weights.

In the national methodology (only figures at the national level) the rent price is calculated using the weighting factor for each FADN-farm.

Three months

Twelve months (provisional figures)

Not yet in this format.

Not yet in this format.

It is possible that the number of observations in some provinces is not that big. This can lead to (considerable) price fluctuations.

It is possible that the number of observations in some provinces is not that big. This can lead to (considerable) price fluctuations.

It is possible that the number of observations in some provinces is not that big. This can lead to (considerable) price fluctuations.

It is possible that the number of observations in some provinces is not that big. This can lead to (considerable) price fluctuations.

The information is obtained from the Database Land Transactions. This database contains the transactions of parcels in the rural area, enriched with agricultural and other relevant information. The database combines information from various administrative and geographical sources: Cadastral transaction information (transactions in the property register of the Land Registry), the Cadastral map, Topographic map with scale 1:10.000 (TOP10NL), Basic Registration of Parcels (BRP), Basic Registration of Addresses and Buildings (BAG), Dutch Farm Structure Survey (DFSS).

The data needed to calculate the rent prices originate from Dutch Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN). Dutch FADN is a sample of about 1.500 farms taken from the Annual Agricultural Census (CBS). The FADN lists the prices of all agricultural tenancy types

Data collected on monthly basis.

Not available.

Land prices are collected from the administrative and geographical data sources.

Rent prices are collected from the FADN.

(1) Selection criteria:

For the determination of the agricultural land prices the traded parcels are selected on the following characteristics (between brackets the source):

• Buyer has a farm (Dutch-FSS).
• Grassland or arable land (Basic Registration of Parcels - BRP).
• Transaction form: deed of purchase-sale (Cadastral transaction).
• Type of ownership: full ownership (Cadastral transaction).
• No buildings (BAG).
• No regular lease or leasehold (BRP and Cadastral transaction).
• No family relationship (Cadastral transaction).
• Area parcel larger than 0.25 hectares (Cadastral transaction).
• The purchase price is greater than 1 euro (Cadastral transaction).

(2) Excluding extreme prices

Traded plots with extremely high and low prices are ruled out. Extreme is defined as a price above or below 1.5 times the price difference between the price of the first and third quartile. The extremes are determined on a monthly basis. The calculated land prices are based on this selection.

The following selection criteria have been used to determine land rents:

• All farms excluding horticultural farms (NSO main types 2 and 3).
• Selection per agricultural tenancy type with surface area of at least 1 hectare.
• Selection of agricultural tenancy type if the tenancy rate is at least 50 euros per hectare.

The requested information is selected from the land transaction database, which is created by combining the following data sources:

- Cadastral transaction information (transactions in the property register of the Land Registry).

- Cadastral map.

- Topographic map with scale 1:10.000 (TOP10NL).

- Basic Registration of Parcels (BRP).

- Basic Registration of Addresses and Buildings (BAG).

- Dutch Farm Structure Survey (DFSS).

The requested information is selected from the FADN.

Information from the Dutch Farm Structure Survey (DFSS) is used as weighing factor.

The aggregation of land prices of Dutch provinces to the level of the Netherlands as a whole was made by calculating a weighted average land price using total arable land and total permanent grassland in each province as weights. Those data are provided by the Farm Structure Survey (FSS).

The average rent prices per province per year are based on the average tenancy rate for tenancies with price control and tenancies without price control according to the FADN, and weighted in line with the land area of these two types of tenancy according to the Agricultural Census.

Not applied.

Not applied.