Goldcrest Land & Forestry Group | Chartered Land & Forestry Agents
9 May 2025
• Jon Lambert
• 3 mins
Rare opportunity to buy timberland forest with carbon credits offers ideal natural capital investment opportunity. An exceptional commercial forest with carbon credits in Carmarthenshire has come to the market – providing a potentially “ideal scenario” for responsibility, integrity and returns, according to a leading UK forestry agent.
25 March 2025
• Emily Moore
• 2 mins
For sale: beautiful mixed woodland with cabin potential and stunning west coast views. A picturesque 130-acre mixed woodland close to the popular west coast village of Plockton has come to the market. Strathellen Wood is rich in biodiversity and wildlife, offers stunning sea views towards the Isle of Skye and the Torridon hills and has potential for a cabin hideaway. It is on the market for offers over £325,000 with Goldcrest Land & Forestry Agency.
20 February 2024
• Jon Lambert
• 3 mins
Jon Lambert, partner of GOLDCREST Land & Forestry Group, has voiced concerns about separating credits from the carbon-sequestering trees that generated them and called for corporations, investors and individuals to buy – and take responsibility for – the land asset itself. Advocating keeping the land, trees and credits together in one package, he said he had become increasingly concerned about the concept of separating carbon credits from land and the trees growing on it.
21 February 2022
• Fenning Welstead
• 2 mins
We are delighted to announce that GOLDCREST Land & Forestry Group is Tilhill 's partner of choice for the 2022 publication and launch of The UK Forest Market Report. The report is considered to be the most comprehensive publicly available record of forestry transactions in the UK.
20 December 2021
• Jon Lambert
• 2 mins
Scottish commercial forestry is more sought-after than ever in 2021. Since November, prices have escalated from a steady £70/T for standing crop to well over £100/T – and as much as £135/T in one recent case in Southern Scotland.
16 November 2021
• Jon Lambert
• 2 mins
SCOTTISH forestry estates have been put up for sale with a total price tag of more than £30 million as the drive to cut carbon dioxide emissions stokes interest in the sector. Goldcrest Land & Forestry is seeking offers over £34m in total for seven estates in areas stretching from the Scottish Borders to Angus.
4 October 2021
• Jon Lambert
• 2 mins
A stunning area of Inverness-shire land rich in natural capital has come to the market. Saddle Hill, a 1200-acre (486ha) property comprising open heather moorland and Caledonian pine trees will appeal to investors trying to fulfill environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) responsibilities.
3 April 2021
• Jon Lambert
• < 1 min
ALMOST 750 hectares of prime commercial forestry in the Scottish Borders has come to the market for offers over £14 million. Goldcrest Land & Forestry Group has launched the sale of the Ramsaygrain East Forests, which extend to 745 hectares and are available as a whole or in three lots.
The professional team at GOLDCREST Land & Forestry Group are all members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and recognised as Registered Valuers with one member a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Foresters.