The Land Journal

Created in 1941, the Forest Landowners Association is a proactive, progressive and hard hitting grassroots organization of timberland owners - large and small - who own and operate more than 37 million acres of timberland in 47 states. The partnership with LandsofAmerica.com, LLC allows all our clients rural land listings to be displayed on www.ForestLandOwners.com. >>Click here [...]

LandsofAmerica.com could not be happier with it’s new partnership with The Houston Chronicle, www.Chron.com. LandsofAmerica.com now powers the Houston Chronicle’s Farms and Ranches section. Because Houston is the headquarters for 1,000s of Oil and Gas companies, every rural agent that we have spoken to lately is looking to find a way to highlight their recreational real estate listings [...]

BLUE GRASS, Va.—While large American newspapers are losing readers, cutting staff and scraping by on fewer advertising dollars, they’re expanding in one area–notices of property sales. These fruits of foreclosures hang heavy in the back pages. Distressed properties [...]

By Guest Blogger: Curtis Seltzer BLUE GRASS, Va.—“Due diligence” is the process of careful investigation that buyers use to identify the values, issues and problems embedded in whatever they’re buying. Since all property purchases are different and no Consumer Reports exists to simplify making choices, each buyer must dig out the story of a seller’s dirt. This research [...]

As the U.S. dollar continues to lose value, the amount of foreign visitors on U.S. real estate websites like LandsofAmerica.com increase. We not only see this from our internal stats for our entire network of rural land websites, but also from the stats of many of our competitors in the rural real estate niche. So [...]

Contributed by Northern Acres: Existing second home and vacation land sales continue to be in demand in the big three vacation home states in the Northeast - Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. A unique aspect of these three states is that in Maine, followed by the others, have more vacation and second home properties than anywhere [...]

While most cities and inner suburban neighborhoods have public sewer and water systems that feed residential houses, these services are seldom available in rural areas. It becomes cost prohibitive to provide that type of infrastructure over such a large area. As a result, the burden falls upon the property owner to provide their own well [...]

LandsofAmerica.com, LLC. continues to fill the gap in rural real estate marketing. While there are multiple marketing systems in the US, for both residential and commercial real estate, rural real estate has traditionally been left out. Over the last two years LandsofAmerica.com, LLC. has quickly grown to be the largest rural land listing network in [...]

Let’s get back to a high-level, real estate advertising point of view for this post. I received an email this week from a newspaper email marketing campaign. It was targeting the real estate industry for classified ads. You could get 3 lines in the newspaper for $52.25 which will run for 2 [...]

Why buy land? What is driving land purchases across the Country? Why are American’s consumed with the great outdoors? We can pull reports and quotes from demographers and appraisers, and talk about “trends” and “value” or we can talk on a more personal level. The folks here at LandsofAmerica [...]