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SmallholdingSales.com Launches: A New Marketplace for Rural Property
SmallholdingSales.com has officially soft launched. Discover why we created a dedicated marketplace for rural property, what the soft launch means, and what to expect as we work towards our full launch.
By SMALLHOLDINGSALES · 19 October 2026 · 3 min read

Welcome to SmallholdingSales.com
October 2026 marks an exciting milestone for SmallholdingSales.com.
After months of planning, development, testing and plenty of refining, we are officially soft launching our rural property marketplace.
SmallholdingSales.com has been created with a simple idea in mind:
Rural property deserves a marketplace of its own.
From smallholdings and working farms to equestrian properties, rural homes, hamlet cottages and off-grid properties, there is a huge variety of property that sits outside the traditional idea of a standard residential property.
We wanted to create a place specifically for those properties — and for the people looking to buy and sell them.
Why did we create SmallholdingSales.com?
Selling a rural property can be very different from selling a conventional home.
Land, acreage, outbuildings, stables, agricultural buildings, private drainage, water supplies, renewable energy and rural locations can all form an important part of the property.
And for many sellers, there is another consideration:
Do I really need to follow the traditional estate-agent route?
SmallholdingSales.com was created to give private sellers another option.
Our aim is to provide a dedicated online marketplace where private sellers can market their rural property directly to people who are specifically looking for a rural way of life.
That means giving sellers greater control over how their property is presented, how enquiries are handled and how their sale progresses.
For buyers, it means having a dedicated place to discover rural property that may not always fit neatly into a conventional property search.
Why a soft launch?
We don't want to pretend that a new marketplace is finished simply because the website is live.
A marketplace needs people.
It needs properties, buyers, feedback and continual improvement.
That's why we're taking a soft launch approach.
This gives us the opportunity to bring the platform to life gradually, work with our first sellers and buyers, identify anything that can be improved and continue developing the experience based on how people actually use it.
We're particularly interested in hearing from private property owners who are considering selling and from buyers looking for their next rural property.
Your feedback at this stage will help shape what SmallholdingSales.com becomes.
So, what's next?
The soft launch is the beginning — not the finished product.
Our next major milestone will be the full public launch.
The hard launch will see us significantly increase our marketing activity and put SmallholdingSales.com in front of a much wider audience of rural property buyers and private sellers.
That will include greater activity across social media, digital marketing, search engines, partnerships and other channels designed to bring more people to the marketplace.
We'll also continue developing the platform and introducing improvements designed to make buying and selling rural property easier.
Ultimately, our goal is to build a marketplace with a strong community around it — one where buyers know where to look for rural property and sellers know where to reach people who are genuinely interested in it.
For private sellers
If you're considering selling a smallholding, farm, equestrian property, rural home, hamlet cottage or off-grid property, SmallholdingSales.com has been built for you.
You don't have to decide today whether selling privately is right for you.
But if you've ever wondered whether there is an alternative to the traditional estate-agent route, we believe it's worth exploring.
Your property. Your sale. Your control.
For rural property buyers
If you're searching for a different way of life, we're building SmallholdingSales.com for you too.
Whether you're looking for a few acres and a home, a working farm, an equestrian property, a character cottage in a rural community or somewhere genuinely off-grid, we're bringing different types of rural property together in one dedicated marketplace.
And as more properties are added, we'll continue to make it easier to find the type of rural property that's right for you.
This is only the beginning
Launching SmallholdingSales.com has always been about more than building another property website.
It's about creating something specifically for the rural property market.
Something that recognises that a rural property isn't simply a house with an address.
It might be a home, a business, a smallholding, a piece of land, a way of life — or all of those things at once.
We're incredibly excited to take the first step.
SmallholdingSales.com is now officially in soft launch.
If you're a private seller considering your options, or a buyer looking for your next rural property, we'd love you to be part of what we're building.
SmallholdingSales.com
Rural property. Your way.
