Feature: UK Forest Market Report 2025 | 51
SUMMARY
■ The UK Forest Market Report 2025 is published by Goldcrest Land & Forestry Group and Tilhill Forestry
■ It showed a 50% uplift in commercial forestry listings in the past year
■ Sales of land with commercial forestry planting potential were relatively scarce
■ The overriding market theme is one of variation
CAUTIOUS APPROACH
The UK Forest Market Report 2025, which was published at the end of last year, reveals a market summarised as cautious and selective. Sally Spencer reports
Despite an “inconsistent” market in 2025, Jon Lambert, a partner at Goldcrest Land & Forestry Group, is confident that “patient investors who purchase land and timber – a growing commodity – will always find a point in the cycle where liquidating their investment generates very substantial returns while having enjoyed the benefits of land ownership”.
Mr Lambert was speaking at the launch of the UK Forest Market Report 2025 at the Signet Library in Edinburgh on November 18 (and again at Surveyor’s House at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in London on November 19).
The report, which is published by Goldcrest and BSW Group’s Tilhill Forestry, is an annual publication that is considered the most comprehensive overview of the UK forestry sector, detailing key financial trends, regional insights and analysis of the timber and natural capital markets. While the market in 2025 was typified by buyer caution and selectiveness, it also showed a 50% uplift in commercial forestry listings in the past year.
Above: Glentrium Hill, Dalwhinnie – on the market with Goldcrest
Presenting the data to delegates, Xander Mahony, head of forestry investment for Tilhill Forestry, revealed that the total value of the commercial forestry market was £140m. This is lower than the listings from 2020 to 2023, which reached approximately £200m each year, but higher than in the years preceding the pandemic and 50% higher – “a real expansion” – than 2024.
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