The rewards of your new life on the farm

You will find pleasure in things that sometimes we take for granted.

Setting down roots

Setting down roots in the magnificent Northland countryside can be a life-changing experience for any family – particularly for those coming from the hustle and bustle of town to a more sedate rural lifestyle.

Your new life "on the farm" will throw up numerous rewards and challenges one could never expect to experience in a suburban environment – from simplicities such as hand rearing a lamb or calf through to dropping in a wire fence or having to lay drainage in the back paddock.

You will find pleasure in the simple things, the things that sometimes we take for granted. Experiences like, eating your first home-grown laboured and loved avocado, producing your own farm fresh eggs, smelling the rain on the grass, your first paddock of hay, the privacy and quiet still evenings or just sitting on the porch watching a Northland sunset.

You will remember these experiences long after the lifestyle property has been sold and you have moved to the next chapter in your lives.

The Bayleys team of specialist lifestyle agents have had these experiences.

They understand, they have a degree in being a "Northland lifestyler".

In addition to the practical knowledge and love of the North, they also have considerable experience and success in marketing and using the specialist sales techniques to promote lifestyle property – don't trust just anybody to protect and promote your biggest asset!

What is lifestyle, and a lifestyler?

Have you stopped buying eggs? Do you rear a bunch of livestock? Does your lawnmower have four legs and self-fertilise? Do you claim GST? Do you have an orchard? Is your property bigger than a residential property but not really a farm? Can you castrate a goat, fix a water pipe and do it all before and after work? Does going home at night seem like driving to an oasis of calm and tranquillity?

You probably own a lifestyle property, although we can't always guarantee the last definition.

Agencies, lawyers and property commentators debate this question all over NZ; what is a lifestyle property? When does it stop being a lifestyle and start being farm?

Probably the best definition is – if it is a rural or semi-rural property that does not provide the owners with a significant income source – it is a lifestyle property.