The average price paid for agricultural land in Antrim has passed the £15,000/ac mark for the first time.

In 2025, the average land price in the county stood at £15,009/ac. Our report found that this was up by £1,058/ac or 8% on the previous year.

Antrim remains the fourth most expensive county in Northern Ireland (NI) to buy land. It ranks in seventh position across the island of Ireland, which is up from ninth place in 2024.

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Our records show that 2,983ac of land was publicly advertised for sale in Antrim last year. This represents a 4% increase on 2024 when 2,871ac were on the market in the county.

As a proportion of its total area, the acreage put on the market during 2025 equates to 0.70% of Antrim’s overall arable and grassland area.

Saffron County

There were 90 parcels of land on the market in the Saffron County during 2025. This makes the average lot 33ac in size. In 2024, there were 84 lots which averaged 34ac.

Our records indicate that 32% of properties for sale in the county last year either had a dwelling house or a building site, with 68% of lots deemed non-residential.

In Antrim, 4% of sales were agreed at prices below £10,000/ac and the biggest number of transactions (57%) fell within the £10,001-15,000/ac bracket.

We found 21% of sales made between £15,001-£20,000/ac and 18% passed over the £20,000/ac mark.

The top price recorded in our survey was just over £27,500/ac for a small residential farm in the east of the county. A larger parcel of land that extended to over 30ac in a different area made just over £25,000/ac.

The lowest price recorded in our survey was £9,463/ac for a substantial block of heavier land in west Antrim.