Posts Tagged ‘real estate value’
- Who is buying land now? – Younger Couples
- Today’s post will look at the land buying motivations of young couples. This group (of younger couples) is crunching the numbers and making hard decisions about their personal finances. In some cases, they’re receiving an inheritance or a stock grant and are choosing to invest in their future real-estate needs rather than the stock market. In [...]
- Who is buying land now? – Investors
- Over the next several posts we’ll take a look at who is buying land. In the current economic client it’s important to understand that buying land remains an excellent investment that should pay off for years to come. Let’s look at the first group of land buyers: Investors. The sense is that the market is in [...]
- Who is buying land now? – Retirees
- Today’s post will consider the motivations retirees have for investing in land, and there are quite a few really good reasons. People nearing retirement age have been prowling for 100-acre properties and smaller, said Charles Gilliland, research economist with the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University. That’s helped lower the average acreage involved in a [...]
- Who is buying land now?
- Now that we know why we should buy land now, let’s look at who is buying land now. Quite frankly, everyone is getting in on this latest land rush in the U.S. From retirees looking for a place where they can spend time with their grandchildren to the young couples that wants to [...]
- Texaplex Land Buying
- Yesterday’s post was about why Texas is thriving while so many other states are struggling. The three key factors were simple. Texas is: 1. A Great Place to Live 2. A Great Place to Work 3. A Great Place to Invest Dave Winans has put together this excellent video that goes into more detail about why Texas is such [...]
- Vacation-home Sales Down; Land Values Up
- Here’s an interesting article by Curtis Seltzer with some interesting facts about vacation homes, land and why now may be a good time to invest. In Texas, most of these numbers and facts are even more accentuated. Both sales and selling prices of vacation homes fell in 2008, according to member survey data from the National [...]
- Land Investment Benefits – Part 2
- Yesterday we posted part one of this fascinating article by Marilyn Evans about land investments of all types, and the benefit these investments could have now and down the road. And while this article is for the whole country, it’s even more true than ever for the great state of Texas. Here is the conclusion [...]
- Land Facts
- Here are a few facts about land for you to consider. Land is the investment vehicle of choice for 2008 and 2009. According to the USDA, there are 2.2 billion acres in the United States. Of the total amount of land, 1.6 billion acres can be bought and sold. 97% of the United States is designated as rural [...]
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