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Smith Agri International are thrilled to have transacted another Australian private plantation asset introducing one of our growing number of sophisticated industry investors to this Victorian based plantation asset. This maturing well stocked Pinus radiata (pine) plantation of around 100 acres is around 13 to 14 years old and represents the first of numerous plantations […]

Agents are a critical component to any successful real estate transaction, it’s NOT like bypassing up a cabbie for an Uber driver, although the same lack of training and protection issues apply. An associate and I were discussing the growing trend of vendor’s choosing to sell one’s property asset by bypassing the use of a […]

Dandaragan was recently advertised in the Australian Financial Review

Smith Agri International featured at the recent preeminent World Forest Investment Conference ‘Who Will Own The Forests’, held at Portland, Oregon, USA in September 2015. Attendance numbered over 400 delegates and included; many of the worlds active and emerging international institutional investors, pension funds, asset managers and high net worth individuals. In addition to timberland […]

The opportunity for Australian and foreign investors to directly acquire Australian Timberland’s has never been better, and you don’t need to be a mega Superfund to achieve long-term secure sustainable returns. In fact, many very highly productive, high yielding forests underpinned by secure markets are simply too small in investment size to meet the acquisition […]

As Australian agribusiness transactions continue to evolve in their sophistication, banks are logically positioning themselves to better support farmers and families. Certainly a change has occurred, and it seems the days of heavy handed revaluations leading to distressed sales via hungry receivers are rightly diminishing. Smart banks are better understanding that they can achieve the […]