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How to Take Land Listing Photos that Wow
When selling your property, especially land and acreage properties, your photographs represent the listing. The wide expanses, fields, and forests can be difficult to represent in a photograph, but here is how you can make these pictures really ‘wow’.
Advanced Mapping Functionality Now Available for All Land.com Network Sellers
As a Land.com Network seller, you can use our advanced mapping tool to help buyers visualize your property even more effectively across all our land listing sites. According to a survey conducted among prospective buyers on Lands of America, maps are one of the most important features for the land-research experience (along with top-notch property […]
How to Sell Your Land & Rural Property in Any Season
Whether you are anxiously awaiting a buyer to submit an offer on your land, or you are in the planning stages of selling your property and want to establish a realistic timeline, it’s important to understand how the time of year impacts the offers that you get.
Is Your Land Orchard-Ready? (Plus: Thanksgiving Cider Suggestions!)
Virginia’s Foggy Ridge Cider founder Diane Flynt pioneered the hard-cidery craft in the region over 20 years ago. Here, we talk to her about her favorite ciders and the steps you need to consider to turn your land into a producing apple orchard.
LANDscape: Fall 2020
From the pages of the Fall 2020 issue of LAND magazine, here’s our selection of intriguing properties featured on the Land.com Network.
On the Cover: Lawson Ranch
Lawson Ranch, homestead in the 1860s and once owned by the late Bing Crosby, encompasses just under 3,000 deeded acres and is located 45 miles north of Elko, Nevada. Completely reminiscent of the Old West, yet complete with updated modern conveniences—including your own private airstrip and large airplane hangar, a full ranch headquarters, six center-drive hay pivots, the ability to run over 600 pair of cattle and easy access to town—this is the quintessential turnkey western cattle ranch.
The Wild Side of Business: Financial Deal Structures Between Landowners & Hunting Outfitters
There are a few common arrangements that tend to define the basic financial arrangements between landowners and hunting outfitters.
John Hayter: I am a Land Specialist
Snapshots of land specialists’ lives
Property Ownership:A Bedrock of the Economy in Troubled Times
Property ownership is still one of the best and safest investments an American family can make.
Explore Ranches: Opening the Gates to Connection
Explore Ranches provides one-of-a-kind outdoor experiences by opening the gates to some of America’s wildest and most scenic ranches.
Envision. Design. Build.
“When Ryan and I started Western Heritage, we vowed to create a firm with the technical expertise and the bold creativity that would allow our clients to dream big,” Rikki said. “Every client who buys a piece of property—large or small—has their vision of what it can become.”
Fall 2020 Land & Lifestyle Trends
Our snapshot of the latest goods, gear and more for land aficionados—from hot sauce inspired by the clay fields of Georgia to a photography book that presents a variety of American landscapes.
Bill Vacek: I am a Land Specialist
Snapshots of land specialists’ lives
The Shockey Collection: A Proud Tradition of Excellence
“In my travels, I see great properties, I see bad properties—and everything in between,” Shockey said. “Experience and time are the only ways to gain knowledge. Now, I’m at a point where I know the difference between exceptional, good and merely average.”
His real world knowledge forms the basis of the strict criteria and evaluation process that sets The Shockey Collection apart in the marketplace.
Tuning in to the Symphony of Nature
Turned off by traditional concert venues, Smith took his cello off the ground and into the trees. High up into the trees! He built a hunter’s stand-like wooden platform, and roped it so high up in an Aspen tree that he had to conjure a way to climb up. His solo performance, Music for the Birds, enamored audiences, especially because, they got to watch Smith with cello in hand climb up a rope and carefully position his body and cello on his small platform.
Our Traffic Keeps Climbing
This past month, visits to the Land.com Network were up yet again!
Featured Listing: Petan Ranch
This reputation cow ranch is mostly high, rolling grama grass hills at around 5,600 feet with 25 percent higher mountains and canyons. It is adequately watered and improved.
On the Cover: Two Creeks Ranch
Nestled in an ecological transition zone, Two Creeks offers the beautiful live water and legacy oaks and native pecans of the Hill Country and the varied brush and bull mesquite that marks superlative wildlife habitat in South Texas.
Texas Land Markets: Struggling Through the Pandemic
Research economist Dr. Charles Gilliland reports on Texas land markets for the second quarter of 2020.
Small Acreage, Big Impact for Wildlife
“From the agency’s perspective, size doesn’t matter when it comes to technical guidance or cost-share programs,” Siegmund said. “All landowners receive our best information for managing their properties, and cost-share money is awarded on the merit of the project, not on the size of the acreage.”
