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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 to the Houston area buyers.

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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 — the growth sector of a troubled economy — are often sold at auction.

Almost $60 billion of property was auctioned last year, and the National

Association of Realtors predicts about 30 percent of all real estate will be auctioned in 2010. Keep reading →

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 is the responsibility of the buyer—not the buyer’s lawyer, not the agents involved, not the buyer’s lender or appraiser and not the buyer’s third cousin by marriage who was Keep reading →

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 it is very apparent to us that foreign investors are looking at land in the US, my big question is: are they buying?

Every spring the LandsofAmerica.com staff travels to Keep reading →

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 else in the country. Vacation properties and land markets have stayed relatively strong in these markets and are likely to continue to see moderate gains. Southern New England states like Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut are more concentrated in residential property than that of thier northern neighbors so the market is a little more flat. However, because these states did not see the tremendous gains
other parts of the country realized, their markets are Keep reading →

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 and septic if they plan to Keep reading →

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 the US. The LandsofAmerica.com Network now has over 250 partner websites that help advertise the listings of the rural real estate agents that use this Network. The expansive Network along with unparalleled organic SEO and grass roots marketing has allowed LandsofAmerica.com, LLC. to become the largest paid rural land listing service in the country.

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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 days. (As I’m typing this I keep going back to that email Keep reading →

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 each have a passion for land. Whether it’s the founder’s love of hunting and God’s country, or it’s a new employee’s 70-year old deer hunting lease or another’s ranch that has been in grandma’s family for nearly a century, we all have different reasons for loving land. Land to me represents a reminder of hunting with my great-uncle Shirley and sitting in a two-man blind with my father the first week of each November, no matter what’s going on in the world. To my co-worker it may represent Keep reading →

The Land Report and LandsofAmerica.com are proud to announce that they have joined forces to keep current and prospective land owners up-to-date on the latest rural properties to hit the market. LandsofAmerica.com is the leading online real estate marketing service for rural real estate. The Land Report, recently named one of the top 15 magazine launches in 2007 by Magazine Industry News, is the authoritative magazine for America’s land owners.

LandsofAmerica.com will feature content from The Land Report’s daily updates on rural land news at www.LandReport.com. These news updates will be available on LandsofAmerica.com’s network of websites to keep their readers educated on Keep reading →