The Australian Rural Property Sales Report 2025
Climate Risk is already being priced into Australia’s Farmland Market
A national analysis of farmland values, climate risk and land productivity in Australia
The Australian Rural Property Sales Report 2025 provides a national analysis of how environmental conditions are influencing rural land values across Australia.
The report integrates rural property transaction data with climate indicators and long-term productivity metrics to quantify how factors such as rainfall reliability, drought exposure and land productivity influence farmland pricing.
The analysis examines every rural property transactions across Australia in 2025, providing one of the most comprehensive national views of the rural property market.
You can read the full analysis by downloading the report.
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Key Findings
1. Climate reliability is now reflected in land values
Median land values decline significantly in regions with higher cumulative drought exposure, falling from approximately $19,972 per hectare in areas with no recorded drought years since 1995 to around $7,200 per hectare in regions with four or more drought years.
2. Rainfall reliability shows a clear value premium
Across central rainfall bands, each additional millimetre of average annual rainfall corresponds to approximately $9–12 per hectare in additional land value — creating a $12,564 per hectare price gap between the lowest and highest rainfall zones.
3. Land productivity is strongly reflected in pricing
Australia’s highest productivity farmland transacted at nearly three times the per hectare value of the lowest productivity land. Long-term Net Primary Productivity (NPP) captures the underlying productive capacity of land systems, reflecting soil quality, climate interaction and vegetative performance.
4. Queensland led national transaction activity
The state recorded the highest concentration of rural property transactions in 2025, with seven of the 10 most active LGAs located in the state—largely across the Darling Downs. This concentration reflects broad-based growth across Queensland’s rural property market, supporting land value gains across both grazing and mixed farming systems.
5. Tasmania recorded strong pricing outcomes
Tasmania’s pricing growth is driven by a renewed demand for high-quality grazing and mixed farming land. One Tasmanian NRMR saw median land values increase by $10,839 per hectare in the space of a year. This was the largest regional price per hectare increase recorded nationally.
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DAS (Digital Agriculture Services) is the leading B2B rural property intelligence platform in Australia and New Zealand. DAS offers a unified system of data, insights, AI and CRM integrations. We are a new kind of technology company, accelerating innovation across the entire agri-enterprise ecosystem.
Decision makers use DAS’ unique ecosystem of products and services to get the multidimensional intelligence they need to lend, sell, insure, invest and grow in a dynamic climate. DAS’ innovation is distinguished by its ability to fuse disparate data and disciplines like climate and productivity science together with geospatial technology; earth observation, remote sensing, machine learning and AI.
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