What would Thomas Wolfe think about his old Blue Ridge stomping grounds, now that growth in and around the North Carolina city of Asheville has gone so nutty?
This 16 acres is selling for $1.5 million, thus ending our literary dreams of looking homeward to the site of ol’ Dixieland.
Entries from January 2007
January 31, 2007
Look Homeward, Angel!?
January 31, 2007
20 Acres w/cabin @109K
The other alternative in upstate New York’s Washington County that beckons is two 10-acre lots (combined) about 48 minutes east of Saratoga, about 5 minutes west of Salem, N.Y.
This is another craigslist.com gem whose owner chose to bypasses land list services and appeal instead to the buyer who has targeted specific areas of interest. The [...]
January 31, 2007
Land Love Hurts!
The dream of owning an 81-acre tree farm in Greewich, N.Y. took a terrible turn this morning towards … NOT HAPPENING!
Woke up to an e-mail from the owner of the tree-studded ridge parcel in Washington County. He said he had a cash offer with closing in 30 days. He asked if I wanted to bid, [...]
January 31, 2007
Total Freaking Eye Candy!
The power of land is that conjures up feelings beyond words. Writers can TRY and evoke what land SAYS and MEANS, but their striving to describe the setting and the feelings evoked almost always falls short.
So what’s the point? Here’s the point:
The PRETTIEST rural land and ranch listing site LandCrazed has EVER seen — bar [...]
January 30, 2007
What’s it worth to list land?
A little mole tells me that Landandfarm.com is raising prices. Premium listing ads are going from $49.95/month to $79.95/month and banner ads are going from $50/month to $175/month.
Landandfarm.com has about 3,800 land listings, making it one of the bigger fish in the rural land pond. Can they continue to grow? We’ll see, since the trend [...]
January 30, 2007
Total Acreage in America!
This land is my land. This land is your land. This land is made up of 2.3 billion acres of land.
Love that number. And love this website: StateMaster.com
“More than just a mere collection of various data, StateMaster goes beyond the numbers to provide you with visualization technology like pie charts, maps, graphs and scatterplots. [...]
January 29, 2007
Selling Like Idaho Hotcakes!
They own 2,700 combined miles of desirable water frontage in three states. They know there are 77 million baby boomers set to retire. And they’re poised to cash in.
The Potlatch Corp. timber company is selling 20 percent of its holdings over the next decade — no small potatoes considering its the largest private owner in [...]
January 29, 2007
Yahoo! Land Rush in ‘Scab Land’
Yahoo! and Microsoft are building huge server farms in Quincy, Washington, using the amazingly cheap hydro power from the Grand Coulee dam to service the hungry data stream. That means the vast, lunar acreage in central Washington has turned into, well, very green acres.
“It’s had an impact,” said Brian Hayek, sales associate for Washington [...]
January 26, 2007
160 acres w/$155M shack
Moving to Montana soon. Gonna be a timber floss tycoon ..
Where is Frank Zappa when you NEED him? I mean, who could do this absurd bit of news one better than the man who told sang about moving to Montana to be dental floss tycoon?
Well, Tycoons-R-Us has a new toy property on its way to [...]
January 24, 2007
Investment + Conservation = ?
Craigslist.com always brings home the bacon. An 81-acre parcel of timber land in Greenwich, N.Y. (about 15 miles east of Saratoga Springs) is being offered by couple who are giving up on their dream of building a summer home. The parcel is on a slight ridge, with views westward of the Adirondacks and a permit [...]
