PROPERTY
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EVERY rider has dreamed about owning the perfect equestrian property, with vast arenas, luxury stables and rolling fields, and your horses just outside your window. But for those lucky enough to make the dream a reality, how is best to avoid the stress, heartache and unnecessary expense that so often accompanies any home purchase, but particularly equestrian property transactions?
The key, specialist estate agents and equestrian property solicitors agree, is to do your homework, be prepared - and don’t assume anything.
This starts before you have even found a property to buy. The first step, says Strutt & Parker’s Annabel Blackett, is to acknowledge the type of equestrian you are, be it hobby hacker, polo player, breeder or professional
