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Insight on the latest market trends in the land and rural real estate markets, including local and statewide trends compiled from the largest rural real estate comparable sales data source on Lands of America.
Land Spotlight: Tiger Woods-Planned Layout Back on the Market
As the sporting world’s eyes turn to Augusta, Georgia, for the 80th running of the Masters golf tournament next week, a 795-acre parcel of land in North Carolina reminds us of one of its greatest ever champions, Tiger Woods. Some 150 miles directly north as the crow flies from the manicured fairways and famous bunkers of Augusta […]
Aerial Drone Footage and FAA Regulations: What You Need to Know
We all know the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. This holds especially true when it comes to the online marketing of real estate, where property photos, videos and interactive tours are considered one of the best ways to capture a prospective customer’s attention. (Indeed, internal data from Apartments.com, a Lands […]
February 2016 Land Market Trends
Here are few of the stats and highlights from LandsofAmerica.com in February 2016. Largest New Listing CARBON COUNTY | WYOMING | $11,500,000 | PROPERTY ID: 3010527 While the sale of the massive Waggoner Ranch in Texas grabbed headlines last month, the 96,447-acre Continental Divide Ranch was the largest new land listing added to the website in February. Covering a single […]
2016 Looks to Be a Transition Year for Texas Land Markets
Since 2010, all segments of Texas land markets have prospered with rising prices and increasing interest.
Celebrity Real Estate: Oprah Winfrey’s New SoCal Home
The new owner of 23-acre Seamair Farm is media tycoon Oprah Winfrey. Although news of the farm’s new owner only recently emerged, the sale went through toward the end of 2015 for a reported $29 million. The property, located close to Santa Barbara in the foothills of Southern California’s Santa Ynez Mountains, was put up for sale following the death of the […]
Texas’ Waggoner Ranch Officially Changes Hands
Judge approves sale of historic Waggoner Ranch in Texas to billionaire Stan Kroenke. The massive ranch covers over 500,000 acres.
Land Prices for 2016
According to our recent survey of land buyers and sellers, land prices in 2016 are on the rise in most states with the largest increases happening over the next 12 months. States throughout the South (with a few exceptions in Arizona and Louisiana) are expected to see price increases by both sellers and buyers. Many […]
WOTUS Stay: What Does It Mean?
We can get bogged down in the validity of who has jurisdiction and the legal minutia or we can gaze beyond those arguments and take a look at what is truly at stake here.
The Lands of America 2016 Land Market Outlook Survey
The results are in from our 2016 Land Market Outlook survey. Nearly 1,000 land buyers, sellers, and brokers sent in their assessment of the current and future of land markets. Land buyers and sellers were in agreement for every question presented and remained optimistic as a whole towards the future of land markets. The questions […]
Faces of Rural America: Looking at the People Behind the Land
The 2012 Ag Census helps lenders understand producers as diverse as America.
Water Conservation in Texas
You don’t have to sit in a Texas coffee shop very long until the conservation turns to oil or water. Oil is discussed because we suddenly have a lot of it and as a result, the state is booming. Water becomes a topic due to its shortage, perpetuated by the continuing drought. WATER NEEDS Needs […]
The True Story of Water Usage in Hydraulic Fracturing
Land brokers and real estate agents, among others in Texas, have witnessed first-hand the positive economic impacts of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking), which make it possible for producers to tap vast deposits of natural gas and oil trapped in tight sand and shale formations.
Spring 2015: Regional Land Value Report
A look a regional farm and land values for spring 2016
WOTUS (Waters of the US) and Land Ownership
WOTUS (Waters of the US) is the on-going challenge to regulate water pollution — the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and Army Corp of Engineers have been tasked with this challenge. The original Rivers & Harbors Appropriation Act of 1899 protected navigation and protected some waters from discharge of pollution. In 1948, the Federal Water Pollution […]
Farmland Values and Regional Marketplace Trends
With farmland values rising consistently over the past 10 years, and exploding in some us regions such as the corn belt and northern plains over the past five, this investment class has generated considerable interest, to say the least. There is a lot of speculation about where land values go from here. Given the diverse […]
Proposition 6 / SWIFT Fund
It’s no secret. Texas is running out of water. In response, the 83rd Texas Legislature moved to encourage the development of new water supplies throughout the state by funding the State Water Plan. To do this, the Legislature, during the regular 2013 session, passed two bills and a Senate Joint Resolution establishing a funding […]
Groundwater Rights Have Become Negotiable in Property Sales
As the supply of Texas groundwater continues to dwindle, the value escalates and landowners realize that it can add another revenue stream to the property.
Will Texas Run Out of Water?
When Dr. Ron Gill, Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service, says that Texas weather is continual drought with intermittent floods, he is supported by Texas history. Droughts pose more danger today than in the past because of population growth.
