Recommend me and my partner some ways to save for our retirement.

[Abbotssilvercoins]

To buy your own woodland, it seems like you are looking at a very large investment indeed.   Close to 7 figures!!

 

However, there are specialist companies who through an investment fund vehicle offer you a way to buy a woodland along with a group of other investors.  I am researching this, but companies like FIM are an example.

 

http://www.fimltd.co.uk/forestry/investment-opportunity

 

Profit from tree growth is capital gains tax free, but profit on the plot is not.  If you buy into a fund like the one above, it looks like you enjoy all the tax breaks you would enjoy if you went it alone.

 

Probably income is in the 8-8.5% range, which is terrific in this day and age and probably outstrips 95% of any available investments.....

 

Buying woodland also appears to be a great way to dodge inheritance tax, as long as you buy it at least 2 years before leaving this mortal coil.

 

As I learn more I will let you know!

 

David

[Scuzzle]

If you are Scottish just watch out for the SNP and their plans for land redistribution, they planned a land grab off landowners if they had won the referendum.

[StackemHigh]

Looking on some sites, six acre woodland sites are available from around £25,000 .

Also woodland management courses to attend if you so wish .

[ArthGoch]

For the small woodland the following three links are as good as any place to start. 

 

www.woods4sale.co.uk

www.woodlands.co.uk

www.johnclegg.co.uk

 

A small woodland is attached to our current house. Over the 20 years since we moved in, the 1/2 acre of mixed broadleaf has kept a wood burning stove well stocked and during the winter months this is going virtually 24/7. Every year or so a tree is blown over, or found to be diseased and thus the firewood is always being topped up 

 

Recently purchased an additional few acres,(via Woodlands4sale) and next month a second stove with a back boiler is being installed in the house . 

 

Besides the commercial potential,( if that is your aim,)  there is nothing like sitting in front of a wood fire in the winter knowing that you have seen the wood grow, you have harvested, splitted and seasoned it; and with the double wammy that you are saving a packet on your heating bills.

 

Modern technology also means that a lot of wood burning stoves meet clean air regulations and can thus be installed in urban areas. My daughter and her husband recently installed a wood burner in their old victorian house in central Cardiff,  and are amazed to the psychological almost primeval  response of passer-by when they smell that distinctive aroma of a wood burning fire 

 

For those who see owning a wood more of a hobby or a way of life the Small Woodlands Association is as good  a starting point as any  

 

http://smallwoods.org.uk/

 

For those that can and want, you can't go far wrong in getting your own few arces of mother nature's blanket