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Transfers of agricultural properties
The statistics show the number of registered transfers of agricultural properties, buyer and seller information, sales value, transfers by purpose of use (agriculture, dwelling, holiday etc.) and different types of transfer (sold on the free market, donations etc.).
Selected figures from these statistics
- Registered transfers of agricultural propertiesDownload table as ...Registered transfers of agricultural properties
2023 Change, per cent Total number Share 2022 - 2023 2019 - 2023 Total 8 848 100 -1.8 3.6 Type of transfer Free market sale 2 214 25 -10.6 -21.5 Donation 2 078 23 2.4 11.1 Licensed and inheritance of decedent estate 3 018 34 0.9 9.2 Compulsory sale 42 0 -38.2 -36.4 Other 1 496 17 3.5 46.7 Transfers by purpose of use Dwelling 2 395 27 4.1 17.1 Holiday 858 10 -3.8 4.5 Agriculture 5 023 57 -4.7 -3.8 Other 572 6 4.6 26.3 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Registered transfers of agricultural properties, by county, type of transfer and type and sex of new ownerDownload table as ...Registered transfers of agricultural properties, by county, type of transfer and type and sex of new owner1
Number of transfers New owner Average age, new owner Male Female Private limited company Other In family with former owner Not in family with former owner 2019 8 541 5 111 3 136 183 111 5 200 3 341 52 2020 9 004 5 443 3 268 202 91 5 580 3 424 52 2021 9 473 5 742 3 412 233 86 5 896 3 577 52 2022 9 008 5 330 3 348 224 106 5 472 3 536 53 2023 8 848 5 219 3 392 166 71 5 661 3 187 53 2023 Østfold 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Oslo and Akershus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Innlandet 1 379 793 586 833 514 19 13 51 Buskerud 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Vestfold 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Telemark 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Agder 668 449 219 402 253 11 2 53 Rogaland 491 324 167 305 165 16 5 52 Vestland 1 109 754 355 643 442 18 6 54 Møre og Romsdal 615 394 221 357 248 4 6 53 Trøndelag - Trööndelage 951 582 369 591 331 17 12 50 Nordland - Nordlánnda 1 035 692 343 568 448 14 5 57 Troms - Romsa - Tromssa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 By type of transfer Free market sale 2 214 1 577 484 118 35 10 2 204 45 Donation 2 078 1 390 679 4 5 1 857 221 44 Licensed 3 018 1 208 1 794 3 13 2 596 422 67 Compulsory sale 42 33 7 1 1 7 35 45 Other 1 496 1 011 428 40 17 1 191 305 50 1Comprises properties with at least 5 decares own agriculture area and/or at least 25 decares productive forest area. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Agricultural properties sold on the free market, by purchase priceDownload table as ...Agricultural properties sold on the free market, by purchase price1
Transfers in total Number of properties by purchase price Average purchase price per transfer Until NOK 999 000 NOK 1 000 000 - 1 999 000 NOK 2 000 000 - 2 999 000 NOK 3 000 000 - 4 999 000 More than NOK 5 000 000 NOK 2019 2 821 944 646 434 474 323 2 596 000 2020 2 856 859 602 489 535 371 2 946 000 2021 2 531 655 547 413 517 399 3 100 000 2022 2 476 674 446 397 495 464 3 496 000 2023 2 214 538 414 363 457 442 3 527 000 2023 Østfold 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Oslo and Akershus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Innlandet 430 118 87 74 80 71 3 569 000 Buskerud 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Vestfold 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Telemark 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Agder 141 26 24 26 39 26 3 115 000 Rogaland 125 20 15 19 25 46 5 898 000 Vestland 228 38 46 52 64 28 2 943 000 Møre og Romsdal 154 30 43 29 34 18 2 655 000 Trøndelag - Trööndelage 271 51 55 41 71 53 3 411 000 Nordland - Nordlánnda 229 104 51 33 30 11 1 996 000 Troms - Romsa - Tromssa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1Comprises properties with at least 5 decares own agriculture area and/or at least 25 decares productive forest area. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Registered transfers of agricultural properties, by countyDownload table as ...Registered transfers of agricultural properties, by county1
Agricultural properties in total Transfers in total Transfers by purpose of use Transfers with building Transfers on the free marked2 Dwelling Holiday Agriculture Other In total Without building With building 2019 180 933 8 541 2 045 821 5 222 453 7 513 2 821 392 2 429 2020 180 087 9 004 2 314 1 003 5 256 431 8 005 2 856 381 2 475 2021 180 025 9 473 2 445 1 005 5 507 516 8 506 2 531 272 2 259 2022 182 391 9 008 2 300 892 5 269 547 7 928 2 476 360 2 116 2023 182 526 8 848 2 395 858 5 023 572 7 835 2 214 260 1 954 2023 Østfold 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Oslo and Akershus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Innlandet 30 065 1 379 1 232 402 68 855 54 430 52 378 Buskerud 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Vestfold 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Telemark 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Agder 13 244 668 585 191 69 359 49 141 20 121 Rogaland 10 313 491 433 93 17 347 34 125 15 110 Vestland 23 638 1 109 1 015 232 99 710 68 228 12 216 Møre og Romsdal 13 405 615 570 191 55 339 30 154 9 145 Trøndelag - Trööndelage 20 806 951 856 228 66 619 38 271 40 231 Nordland - Nordlánnda 18 252 1 035 868 288 221 428 98 229 33 196 Troms - Romsa - Tromssa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1Comprise properties with at least 5 decares agricultural area or/and 25 decares productive forest area 2Free market sale means that the property is sold for a price corresponding to the market value. The property is not always announced for sale on the free market. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
About the statistics
The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 7 June 2023.
Registered transfer of real property
Includes registered transfers of title and establishment and transfer of lease. A transfer can include the whole or part of one or more ground parcels, leases and sections of buildings registered as freehold. Transfers of dwellings attached to housing co-opertives or similar are not included.
Agricultural and forestry property
Property that is used for or could be used for agriculture and/or forestry. All agricultural/forestry area belonging to the same owner within a municipality is regarded as one property, irrespective of the number of cadastral units.
Forest property
Property with at least 25 decares of productive forest area.
Agricultural holding
A single unit both technically and economically, which has single management and which produces agricultural products. The holding is independent of municipality boundaries. The agricultural holding's headquarter must be located to an agricultural property.
Transfer of Agricultural and forrest properties
A transfer does not only comprise ordinary sale, but also donation, compulsory sale and eminent domain, licensed decedent estate, inheritance of decedent estate and other. A transfer can also comprise one or several cadastral units. For properties with more than one owner, a transfer can also be a part of a property.
Donation
Properties transferred for a price lower than the tax base / market value is coded as a donation.
Purpose of use
Information of the properties purpose of use is given on the deed of conveyance.
Free market sale
Free market sale means that the property is sold for a price corresponding to the market value. The property is not always announced for sale on the free market.
Activity in agriculture
Activity in agriculture means that the property is the management center for one or several agricultural properties.
Activity in forestry
An agricultural property with at least 25 decares productiv forest area that has carried out industrial roundwood removals for sale the last ten years.
Name: Transfers of agricultural properties
Topic: Agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing
Division for Housing, Property, Spatial and Agricultural Statistics
County and centrality / industrial link.
Annually.
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Collected and revised data are stored securely by Statistics Norway in compliance with applicable legislation on data processing.
Statistics Norway can grant access to the source data (de-identified or anonymised microdata) on which the statistics are based, for researchers and public authorities for the purposes of preparing statistical results and analyses. Access can be granted upon application and subject to conditions. Refer to the details about this at Access to data from Statistics Norway.
The purpose is to show the development over time of registered transfers of agricultural properties. Transfers of agricultural properties are regulated by legal framework and a large share of the transfers take place within the family. Agricultural properties vary in size (agricultural land, productive forest and other land categories), standard on buildings and location.
The main users are public and private sector agencies, research and educational institutions and media.
No external users have access to statistics before they are released at 8 a.m. on ssb.no after at least three months’ advance notice in the release calendar. This is one of the most important principles in Statistics Norway for ensuring the equal treatment of users.
The quarterly statistics on registered transfers of real property also include figures for transferred agricultural properties. However, only properties where agriculture is reported as the purpose of use on the deed of conveyance are included in these statistics.
The statistics are developed, produced and disseminated pursuant to Act no. 32 of 21 June 2019 relating to official statistics and Statistics Norway (the Statistics Act).
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Including 2010, the statistics comprise properties in the Farm Register of the Norwegian Agricultural Authority with at least 5 decares owned agricultural area and/or at least 25 decares productive forest area. As from 2012 the statistics are based on new cartographic data analyses and data on owners and properties from the cadastre in combination with data from the Farm register. Figures for 2011 are not published.
An agricultural property may comprise one or several cadastral units within a municipality. Each cadastrial unit is identified by a number and one of the numbers are choosen as the main number, in most cases the unit with buildings. A registered transfer may also comprise one or several cadastral units, and the lowest number is chosen as the main number of the property. A property therefor may have different main number in these two registers.
The agricultural properties and the registered transfers are first merged by the main number. For agricultural properties not merging by main number, each cadastral unit are merged with the rest of the transfers. If agriculture is given as a purpose of use on the deed of conveyance, or the cadastral unit has a code for agriculture in the register, the transfer is included in this statistics.
A registered transfer does not only comprise ordinary sale, but also donation, compulsory sale and eminent domain, licensed decedent estate, inheritance of decedent estate and other. A transfer can also comprise one or several cadastral units. For properties with more than one owner, a transfer can also be a part of a property. The same agricultural property can be transferred several times during the same year.
Transfers of agricultural properties representing a purchase price / value exceeding NOK 20 million are not very common, and the number of such transfers varies between years. This will lead to considerable variation in average purchase price from one year to another. As from 2009, transfers where the purchase price exceeds NOK 20 million are not included in the calculation of average purchase price. As from 2013, this limit is NOK 30 million. Corrections are also done for transfers that only comprise parts of a property and for transfers of properties with building merged to a property without building. These corrections are only done to make the average purchase price comparable and will not influence the number of transfers.
Corresponding corrections are also done for 2006, 2007 and 2008.
The statistics is built on the Agricultural and forrest properties from the statisitcs "Agricultural Properties" and data from the Register of Deeds (Grunnboka), the Cadastre System (no: Matrikkelen) and the Central Population Register.
Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority is responsible for the Register of Deeds.
The statistics are built on registers.
A large number of controls are done during the process of merging the registers: Controls of duplicates, manually check of transfers with large values, coding of different units and controls of illogical data combinatons.
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Employees of Statistics Norway have a duty of confidentiality.
Statistics Norway does not publish figures if there is a risk of the respondent’s contribution being identified. This means that, as a general rule, figures are not published if fewer than three units form the basis of a cell in a table or if the contribution of one or two respondents constitutes a very large part of the cell total.
Statistics Norway can make exceptions to the general rule if deemed necessary to meet the requirements of the EEA agreement, if the respondent is a public authority, if the respondent has consented to this, or when the information disclosed is openly accessible to the public.
More information can be found on Statistics Norway’s website under Methods in official statistics, in the ‘Confidentiality’ section.
The statistics are prepared annually back to 2000. Figures on the properties´ buildings and settlement are prepared for 2000 and annually from 2006.
Agricultural properties comprise considerable areas and building resources, with and without industrial activity. Changes in the legal framework may cause changes of importance due to settlement, industrial activity and other activity on agricultural properties.
In the period 2000-2009 the Concession Act is changed three times. In 2001, the upper area limit for dispensation from concession requirement for transfers of agricultural properties changed from 5 decares to 20 decares. In 2003, the corresponding upper area limit was changed to 100 decares, of this 20 decares or less cultivated agricultural area. In 2009, the upper area limit remained 100 decares, while the upper limit for cultivated area was changed to 25 decares.
Errors may arise when data are entered into administrative registers. Errors may also occur while different registers are merged during the data processing. For example: various date for upgrading the register information.
Registering a transfer in the Register of Deeds is voluntary, but only an insignificant share of the transfers are not registered.
There is also reason to belive that some small agricultural properties are not registered or have lacking data in the Farm Register.
The statistics are based mainly on information reported in connection with registration of title to property and thus considered to be reliable. Misclassification of type of property and type of dwelling may occur. Lacking information of unproductive areas in the Farm Register, results in no opportunity to classify agricultural property transfers by the propertys total area.
In 2009, controls are done by means of the national population register to inquire whether the property is sold within the family or not. Family includes spouse, children, brothers, sisters, parents, grand parents, aunts and uncles. In 1964, personal identification number was introduced. Even several natural persons who died before 1964 have got a number. The older a person is the harder it is to find a link between parents and their children. In some instances the lack of personal identification number will make it difficult to check the relationship between the old and new owner, especially when the former owner is sister or brother of one of the parents of the new owner.
A transfer can have more than one buyer and one seller. In this statistics, the relationship is only checked for one seller and one buyer. This person with the largest owner share is chosen. If two persons have identical owner share, the oldest one is chosen. About 70 per cent of the transfers have one buyer, 20 per cent have two and 10 per cent have three or more. Especially properties transferred as inheritance of decedent estate have three or more new owners.
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