Entitlement Trading
Offering professional advice and services for buying, selling, and leasing agricultural entitlements, ensuring compliance and maximising your farm’s potential.
Welsh BPS Entitlements
McCartneys will be trading Welsh Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) entitlements for the 2025 season. Clients will be able to check their entitlements on RPW Online service in Wales from January 2025.
Please check these for spare entitlements to the land area you will be claiming in 2025 as these can be traded. It is also possible to lease as well as sell entitlements.
In Wales, the transfer window usually opens in the spring with a transfer deadline date is 15th May. All entitlement transfers will have to be completed online. McCartneys can be appointed as your agent to do the transfer.
Vendors will need to add a McCartneys agent to their online account so that we can complete the forms for you.
In Wales the Redistributive payment is not included in the entitlement value, being additional payments over and above BPS value.
If you are looking to sell or purchase entitlements please contact us. We will add you to our trading register.
Wales – Please click here to print off the official Vendor Transfer Document & Instruction Form.
Available in Wales – Basic Payment Scheme Entitlements For Sale by Private Treaty
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Rural Experts
Introducing the McCartneys Entitlement Trading team.
Ellie Hopkins
Rural Chartered Surveyor
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Ellie Hopkins
- Brecon
- Rural Chartered Surveyor
- 01874 625512
- ellie.hopkins@mccartneys.co.uk
Ellie returned to McCartneys in 2021 after graduating from Harper Adams University with a first-class honours degree in Rural Enterprise and Land Management, after previously completing her placement year with the firm in 2019/2020. Ellie is a qualified member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS), a RICS Registered Valuer and a Fellow of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (FAAV).
Based in the Brecon and Hay-on-Wye offices, Ellie undertakes a wide range of professional services to include rural property sales, landlord and tenant advice, Red Book valuations for Inheritance and Capital Gains Tax purposes and compulsory purchase and compensation matters.
Ellie is a farmer’s daughter from Breconshire and lives near Brecon with her husband on a mixed beef, sheep and arable farm. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time on the farm, cycling, running and socialising with friends.
Sion Thomas
Graduate Rural Surveyor
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Sion Thomas
- Brecon
- Graduate Rural Surveyor
- 01497 820778
- sion.thomas@mccartneys.co.uk
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Adleis Jones
Graduate Rural Surveyor
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Adleis Jones
- Knighton
- Graduate Rural Surveyor
- 01547 528621
- adleis.jones@mccartneys.co.uk
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Eloise Phillips
Professional Assistant
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Eloise Phillips
- Knighton
- Professional Assistant
- 01544 230316
- eloise.phillips@mccartneys.co.uk
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Rural Experts
Introducing the McCartneys Entitlement Trading team.
Ellie Hopkins
Rural Chartered Surveyor
X
Ellie Hopkins
- Brecon
- Rural Chartered Surveyor
- 01874 625512
- ellie.hopkins@mccartneys.co.uk
Ellie returned to McCartneys in 2021 after graduating from Harper Adams University with a first-class honours degree in Rural Enterprise and Land Management, after previously completing her placement year with the firm in 2019/2020. Ellie is a qualified member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS), a RICS Registered Valuer and a Fellow of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (FAAV).
Based in the Brecon and Hay-on-Wye offices, Ellie undertakes a wide range of professional services to include rural property sales, landlord and tenant advice, Red Book valuations for Inheritance and Capital Gains Tax purposes and compulsory purchase and compensation matters.
Ellie is a farmer’s daughter from Breconshire and lives near Brecon with her husband on a mixed beef, sheep and arable farm. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time on the farm, cycling, running and socialising with friends.
Sion Thomas
Graduate Rural Surveyor
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Sion Thomas
- Brecon
- Graduate Rural Surveyor
- 01497 820778
- sion.thomas@mccartneys.co.uk
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Adleis Jones
Graduate Rural Surveyor
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Adleis Jones
- Knighton
- Graduate Rural Surveyor
- 01547 528621
- adleis.jones@mccartneys.co.uk
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Eloise Phillips
Professional Assistant
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Eloise Phillips
- Knighton
- Professional Assistant
- 01544 230316
- eloise.phillips@mccartneys.co.uk
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