Blog posts, pro-tips and guides to help you find your dream land
A plat is a recorded map that divides a piece of land into numbered lots and shows the streets, alleys and easements that go with them. The plat map is what you actually look at, whether that is a pap...
The land loan calculator below needs three numbers. What the parcel costs, what rate you have been quoted, and how many years you have to pay it off. Change any of them and the payment updates as you ...
You saw the word on a listing, an assessor record, or a lender's term sheet, and you want to know what you are actually buying. Unimproved land sounds like it should have one plain meaning. It has at ...
In September 2023, buyers in Fort Lauderdale paid $350,000 for a vacant lot advertised for "new construction, build to suit residential." The only road reaching it turned out to be privately owned rat...
You closed on a parcel, or you are about to, and then somebody asked for a street address. The insurance agent needed one to bind a policy. The utility company wanted one before it would quote service...
You are scrolling land listings. Most of them say cash only. Then one says owner will carry, or just "OWC," and you have no idea whether that is an opening or a warning. It means the seller is acting ...
Search cheap land for sale in west virginia and the first two numbers you meet are about $44,800 an acre and about $6,100 an acre, published by the same author on the same site. West Virginia cannot b...
A page-one result from a licensed real estate brokerage says a Colorado property must be at least 35 acres to qualify for a well. Another says parcels under 35 acres get a household-use permit instead...
If you have spent any time looking at a land auction in North Carolina, you have probably read two contradictory sentences on the same county web page. All property is sold as is, where is, and all sa...
The listing says RR. The county map shades your parcel Rural Residential, and you are already picturing the house, the shop, and a couple of horses out back. In Clackamas County, Oregon, RR does not s...
You are looking at a listing for a parcel you have never stood on, and the only thing separating it from the thousand acres around it is a string of numbers. So what is APN in real estate, and how far...
Spend five minutes searching the wildlife exemption in Texas and you collect a pile of answers that cannot all be true. One page promises savings of 50 to 80 percent, the next says 98 percent or more....
Search for wyoming cheap land and you will get guides that name almost no counties and quote per-acre figures running anywhere from about $6,116 to $135,800 for the same state. Wyoming cannot be all o...
A free land value estimator needs a public dataset underneath it, and for land there is essentially one. By USDA's own published definition, the number that dataset reports includes the farmhouse, the...
Six well-known sites publish a price for the same service and none of them come close to agreeing. CostHelper documents real county fees of $175 to $300. Fixr puts the national average at $725. Bob Vi...
