Farm Agency
GTH has a heritage dating back over 170 years and its roots are firmly within the rural community. Priding ourselves on our expertise, local knowledge and proactive approach, we will achieve the best possible result for you. Whether you are selling a pony paddock or country estate, looking to disperse your farming assets or want to develop your business, we have the South West covered.
Why Choose GTH?
Qualified Rural Valuers
Our experienced professionals are RICS and/or CAAV qualified valuers. In fact, collectively our team have over 100 years professional experience. We have long-standing relationships with many farming families in the region and understand the challenges and opportunities they face.
A Wide Audience
Our 19 office network across Somerset, Devon and Dorset ensures we have the reach and contacts to get your property noticed. Promotion includes publicity at Sedgemoor, Europe’s largest one day market - a thriving hub of activity for many local rural families. Further afield, our Mayfair Office in London means your property will be visible to national and international audiences.
Marketing Your Property
We ensure your property is presented at its best through bespoke brochures complemented by drone videos and photography. Digitally our coverage is far reaching on social media and via our website as well as through Rightmove, UK Land & Farms and OnTheMarket.
We also organise adverts in local, regional and national press and promote properties at local agricultural shows and events.
Professional Services
If you are looking at options to diversify your business, develop your property or need advice on any issue affecting your property, we can help. Read More
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We regularly team up with other professional firms in the South West to provide up-to-minute advice on issues that affect the rural community.
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Will grew up close to the Devon/Somerset border and having gone to school at Queen's College in Taunton progressed to study Rural Land Management at The Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester. This was followed by three years working for a national firm of land agents in Kent where he qualified as a Chartered Surveyor and Agricultural Valuer. Having joined GTH in 2004, he now manages the Honiton office and was made a Partner of the firm in 2015.<br> <br>With over 20 years’ experience in the property industry, Will now focuses on all rural property matters and deals primarily with the professional valuation and sale of farms, equestrian property, smallholdings, country houses and land. In addition he does a variety of professional work and is also familiar to many farmers throughout the South West as an auctioneer at Sedgemoor Auction Centre where he sells the stores.
William Handel MRICS, FAAV
Partner - Mid Devon
01404 46222
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Jeremy is an experienced multi-faceted Agricultural Valuer and Auctioneer, both heading up and conducting regular collective land and property auctions in the North Somerset area as well as being on the rostrum at Sedgemoor Auction Centre selling primestock cattle.<br><br>Jeremy's other fields of expertise include agri-business advice, estate management and agricultural landlord and tenant, rural planning consultancy and rating appeals. Jeremy is based at our most northern office at Redhill, Bristol.
Jeremy Bell FAAV, FARLA, FLAA
Partner - North Somerset
01278 765588
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Justin originally joined RB Taylor & Sons in 1995 and ran the firm's Milk Quota Department. In 2001 he took over the Farms and Rural Property Department based at Yeovil and now deals with the valuation, sale and purchase of farms, equestrian, country property, development property and land on behalf of farmers and individuals throughout Somerset and Dorset. Justin qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 1990, became a Partner in 2005 and regularly conducts the property auctions in the Dorset and South Somerset areas on behalf of the firm.
Justin Lowe MRICS
Partner - West Dorset
01935 415300
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Sally joined R B Taylor and Son's during 1995 having graduated from Reading University with a BSc (Hons) Degree in Rural Resource Management. Following the merger with Greenslade Hunt in 1997 Sally undertook a correspondence course with the College of Estate Management to allow her to obtain her Chartered Surveyor qualifications. The daughter of a Dorset dairy farmer Sally was well placed to start selling dairy cattle in 2001 when she was also made an associate, her involvement with the farm sales department has continued over the past 20 years as she has developed her professional involvement with various Estates and Landlords whilst managing the Dorchester Office and has been an Agricultural Partner with the firm since 2016.
Sally Mitchell MRICS
Agricultural Partner - Dorset
01305 268786
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Martyn is a second generation chartered surveyor who joined GTH in 2004 straight from agricultural college. He quickly progressed into agricultural professional and valuation work and had a regular slot selling livestock at Taunton market. Martyn moved into farm and rural agency, qualifying as a chartered surveyor in 2007. From here Martyn specialised in selling country properties based in the Taunton office. In 2011 Martyn was made an Associate and in 2012 he was asked to run the residential office in Bridgwater whilst still selling in the market on a Saturday. Martyn was made a partner at Greenslade Taylor Hunt in 2017 and in 2018 was promoted to run the residential office in Taunton.<br><br>In his spare time he enjoys fly fishing, clay pigeon shooting and walking his black Labrador, Bear. Spending time with his family and working in the garden are other priorities along with the occasional run.
Martyn Venner MRICS
Partner - Somerset
01823 277121
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Tony Overhill joined WRJ Greenslade & Co in 1989 as a Senior Assistant and became an Equity Partner in 1992 on the merger of WRJ Greenslade & Co and FL Hunt & Son. Initially heading the firm's Farm and Land Sales division in Taunton, he moved to Tiverton in 1996 to open the first Devon office. His speciality remains Rural Agency, although he also undertakes a wide range of Valuation and associated Professional work including the preparation of Expert witness reports, planning appraisals and compensation claims. The son of a Kentish farmer, Tony takes a keen interest in all rural affairs, as well as enjoying part time farming, property renovation and sailing.
Tony Overhill FRICS FAAV
Partner - Devon & Cornwall
01884 243000
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Richard, a farmer’s son from North Devon, joined GTH in 1996 having graduated from Seale Hayne Agricultural College with an honours degree in agriculture followed by a Masters in Estate Management from the Royal Agricultural College. He qualified as a chartered surveyor in 1998 and became a Partner with the firm in 2003. He is the Managing Partner of the South Molton Office and deals primarily with the professional valuation and sale of farms, equestrian property, smallholdings and land.<br><br>In his spare time In his spare time Richard enjoys working on the home farm with his family, fly fishing, running and reading.
Richard Webber MRICS
Partner - North Devon
01769 574500
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Graeme is a Chartered Surveyor (MRICS) and a fellow of the agricultural valuers' association (FAAV), working out of our Tiverton and Exeter offices. Graeme joined the partnership in 2018 and undertakes a wide variety of agency and professional work throughout Devon, Somerset and Cornwall, with a particular emphasis on the sale of rural property and farms, formal RICS valuation work, renewable energy and compensation matters. He chairs our professional services committee and also oversees the marketing department. In his spare time Graeme enjoys various board sports and water sports, as well as exploring the South West with his family.
Graeme Biffen MRICS FAAV
Partner - Devon & Cornwall
01884 243000
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Philip Hodgkin joined Greenslade Taylor Hunt in 2017 as an Associate having worked in the region for a well-respected national firm for more than 9 years prior. Philip is a Member of the RICS and a Fellow of the Association of Agricultural Valuers. He works out of the Chard office providing a wide range of rural consultancy advice and agency services to landowners, businesses, farmers, developers, other professionals and more throughout Somerset, Dorset and parts of Devon. Philip has a sound agricultural and rural focused background. He enjoys a number of pastimes, particularly running his own small holding alongside his professional career.
Philip Hodgkin
Associate - Somerset
01460 238383
Email Philip
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Jamie Batt BSc (Hons) MRICS FAAV
Agricultural Surveyor - Somerset & Mendips
01935 423474
Email Jamie
William Handel MRICS, FAAV
Partner - Mid Devon
Will grew up close to the Devon/Somerset border and having gone to school at Queen's College in Taunton progressed to study Rural Land Management at The Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester. This was followed by three years working for a national firm of land agents in Kent where he qualified as a Chartered Surveyor and Agricultural Valuer. Having joined GTH in 2004, he now manages the Honiton office and was made a Partner of the firm in 2015.
With over 20 years’ experience in the property industry, Will now focuses on all rural property matters and deals primarily with the professional valuation and sale of farms, equestrian property, smallholdings, country houses and land. In addition he does a variety of professional work and is also familiar to many farmers throughout the South West as an auctioneer at Sedgemoor Auction Centre where he sells the stores.
With over 20 years’ experience in the property industry, Will now focuses on all rural property matters and deals primarily with the professional valuation and sale of farms, equestrian property, smallholdings, country houses and land. In addition he does a variety of professional work and is also familiar to many farmers throughout the South West as an auctioneer at Sedgemoor Auction Centre where he sells the stores.
Jeremy Bell FAAV, FARLA, FLAA
Partner - North Somerset
Jeremy is an experienced multi-faceted Agricultural Valuer and Auctioneer, both heading up and conducting regular collective land and property auctions in the North Somerset area as well as being on the rostrum at Sedgemoor Auction Centre selling primestock cattle.
Jeremy's other fields of expertise include agri-business advice, estate management and agricultural landlord and tenant, rural planning consultancy and rating appeals. Jeremy is based at our most northern office at Redhill, Bristol.
Jeremy's other fields of expertise include agri-business advice, estate management and agricultural landlord and tenant, rural planning consultancy and rating appeals. Jeremy is based at our most northern office at Redhill, Bristol.
Justin Lowe MRICS
Partner - West Dorset
Justin originally joined RB Taylor & Sons in 1995 and ran the firm's Milk Quota Department. In 2001 he took over the Farms and Rural Property Department based at Yeovil and now deals with the valuation, sale and purchase of farms, equestrian, country property, development property and land on behalf of farmers and individuals throughout Somerset and Dorset. Justin qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 1990, became a Partner in 2005 and regularly conducts the property auctions in the Dorset and South Somerset areas on behalf of the firm.
Sally Mitchell MRICS
Agricultural Partner - Dorset
Sally joined R B Taylor and Son's during 1995 having graduated from Reading University with a BSc (Hons) Degree in Rural Resource Management. Following the merger with Greenslade Hunt in 1997 Sally undertook a correspondence course with the College of Estate Management to allow her to obtain her Chartered Surveyor qualifications. The daughter of a Dorset dairy farmer Sally was well placed to start selling dairy cattle in 2001 when she was also made an associate, her involvement with the farm sales department has continued over the past 20 years as she has developed her professional involvement with various Estates and Landlords whilst managing the Dorchester Office and has been an Agricultural Partner with the firm since 2016.
Martyn Venner MRICS
Partner - Somerset
Martyn is a second generation chartered surveyor who joined GTH in 2004 straight from agricultural college. He quickly progressed into agricultural professional and valuation work and had a regular slot selling livestock at Taunton market. Martyn moved into farm and rural agency, qualifying as a chartered surveyor in 2007. From here Martyn specialised in selling country properties based in the Taunton office. In 2011 Martyn was made an Associate and in 2012 he was asked to run the residential office in Bridgwater whilst still selling in the market on a Saturday. Martyn was made a partner at Greenslade Taylor Hunt in 2017 and in 2018 was promoted to run the residential office in Taunton.
In his spare time he enjoys fly fishing, clay pigeon shooting and walking his black Labrador, Bear. Spending time with his family and working in the garden are other priorities along with the occasional run.
In his spare time he enjoys fly fishing, clay pigeon shooting and walking his black Labrador, Bear. Spending time with his family and working in the garden are other priorities along with the occasional run.
Tony Overhill FRICS FAAV
Partner - Devon & Cornwall
Tony Overhill joined WRJ Greenslade & Co in 1989 as a Senior Assistant and became an Equity Partner in 1992 on the merger of WRJ Greenslade & Co and FL Hunt & Son. Initially heading the firm's Farm and Land Sales division in Taunton, he moved to Tiverton in 1996 to open the first Devon office. His speciality remains Rural Agency, although he also undertakes a wide range of Valuation and associated Professional work including the preparation of Expert witness reports, planning appraisals and compensation claims. The son of a Kentish farmer, Tony takes a keen interest in all rural affairs, as well as enjoying part time farming, property renovation and sailing.
Richard Webber MRICS
Partner - North Devon
Richard, a farmer’s son from North Devon, joined GTH in 1996 having graduated from Seale Hayne Agricultural College with an honours degree in agriculture followed by a Masters in Estate Management from the Royal Agricultural College. He qualified as a chartered surveyor in 1998 and became a Partner with the firm in 2003. He is the Managing Partner of the South Molton Office and deals primarily with the professional valuation and sale of farms, equestrian property, smallholdings and land.
In his spare time In his spare time Richard enjoys working on the home farm with his family, fly fishing, running and reading.
In his spare time In his spare time Richard enjoys working on the home farm with his family, fly fishing, running and reading.
Graeme Biffen MRICS FAAV
Partner - Devon & Cornwall
Graeme is a Chartered Surveyor (MRICS) and a fellow of the agricultural valuers' association (FAAV), working out of our Tiverton and Exeter offices. Graeme joined the partnership in 2018 and undertakes a wide variety of agency and professional work throughout Devon, Somerset and Cornwall, with a particular emphasis on the sale of rural property and farms, formal RICS valuation work, renewable energy and compensation matters. He chairs our professional services committee and also oversees the marketing department. In his spare time Graeme enjoys various board sports and water sports, as well as exploring the South West with his family.
Philip Hodgkin
Associate - Somerset
Philip Hodgkin joined Greenslade Taylor Hunt in 2017 as an Associate having worked in the region for a well-respected national firm for more than 9 years prior. Philip is a Member of the RICS and a Fellow of the Association of Agricultural Valuers. He works out of the Chard office providing a wide range of rural consultancy advice and agency services to landowners, businesses, farmers, developers, other professionals and more throughout Somerset, Dorset and parts of Devon. Philip has a sound agricultural and rural focused background. He enjoys a number of pastimes, particularly running his own small holding alongside his professional career.