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10th Dec 2025

Congratulations to Newly Appointed CAAV Fellows

The Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (CAAV) has welcomed its newest Fellows this week, marking a significant milestone for candidates who successfully completed the organisation’s renowned rigorous examinations. Howie, Kent and Co sends its congratulations to all who achieved Fellowship status, and admiration for the hard work and dedication required to meet the demanding assessment […]
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9th Dec 2025

The Rural Report – Winter 2025

Welcome to the winter instalment of the Howie, Kent & Co Rural Report. We hope that this gives you a bit of a snapshot of what the team have been up to and how we may be able to help you as either a developer or a landowner. In this issue we welcome three new […]
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5th Dec 2025

Land required for Luxury Glamping Development

Are you a Landowner with a site that would be perfect for a luxury glamping development? Our client is a well-established operator who is actively seeking land within a 2-hour radius of London. Suitable sites should ideally meet the following criteria: 75+ acres of quiet, tranquil land Not situated in Greenbelt or an AONB Not […]
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26th Nov 2025

Meet the team – Becky Evans

Becky Evans joined the Howie, Kent and Co team as a Senior Chartered Surveyor in 2023. Originally from North Wales, but now living in Shropshire, Becky always had a career in surveying in mind. She combined her experience on the family farm and her Dad’s residential sales and lettings business in North Wales and Chester […]
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Howie Kent & Co Team | Duncan Howie

7th Nov 2025

Meet the Team – Duncan Howie

Duncan Howie, co-founder and Director of Howie, Kent and Co, brings a wealth of experience and passion for rural commercial agency and renewable energy projects. A graduate of the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester, Duncan began his career with Strutt & Parker in their Chelmsford office. While he enjoyed his time there, he soon realised […]
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Graduates attend young valuers conference

4th Nov 2025

Professional Development at CAAV Young Valuers Conference

Howie Kent and Co’s graduate surveyors and current university placement student — Dan, Joe and Emily,  recently attended the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (CAAV) 18th Annual Young Valuers Conference. The event brought together emerging young professionals from across the rural surveying sector to develop their knowledge, network with peers, and gain insight into key […]
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7th Oct 2025

Are you a landowner with a site that would be perfect for poultry houses?

We have retained clients looking to acquire land to build new broiler sheds. Locations need to have: Good road access. Either A or B road and ideally not bottle necking through a local village Site must be 15 to 20 acres of flat developable land 11kv, three phase must be on the site or very […]
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7th Oct 2025

Welcome to the team Dan!

We are delighted to welcome Dan Casey Ford to our team, as our latest Graduate Surveyor.  Dan joins us fresh from the Royal Agricultural University, bringing with him a wealth of farming and land knowledge from his time contract farming with a Northumberland based farming company, working with farming friends on a hill farm in […]
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29th Jul 2025

Limited Viable Grid Connections Challenge Renewable Energy Sector

Grid Reform is continuing to challenge the renewable energy sector with new viable grid connections becoming increasingly scarce. The changes have created some opportunities though with smaller projects under 5MW now being exempt from requiring a Transmission Impact Assessment (TIA). This has simplified the grid application process for sites under 5MW which should allow projects […]
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29th Jul 2025

New Team Members at Howie Kent and Co

We would like introduce two new team members to Howie, Kent & Co. Joe Langley joins us as our new Graduate Surveyor, following his Master’s degree in Rural Estate and Land Management at Harper Adams University. Emily Cobb is our 2025/2026 placement student, also studying at Harper Adams. They are getting stuck in to their […]
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