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Land Report December 2019 Newsletter

Posted on December 15, 2019 by Land Report Editors

Highlights from our December newsletter include: A federal judge in El Paso blocked $3.6 billion in border wall funding. The Obamas close on a 29-acre estate in Martha’s Vineyard for $11.75 million. Ikea acquires 42,000 acres of Texas timberland and…

DOJ and DOD Prepare to Condemn Private Lands for Border Wall

Posted on December 5, 2019 by Land Report Editors

NBC News reports that administration officials are preparing the requisite court filings in Texas that will facilitate the condemnation of the private property necessary to construct the border wall. In a departure from typical eminent domain cases, however, the Declaration…

Sold! Pilgrim’s Pride Estate Eclipses $3 Million at Auction

Posted on November 18, 2019 by Land Report Editors

The Dallas Morning News reports that an 18,243-square-foot French Baroque chateau set on 43 acres in East Texas was sold at auction by Concierge Auctions in October. Bidding on the Pilgrim estate “topped $3 million.” Designed by architect Richard Drummond…

Land Report November 2019 Newsletter

Posted on November 15, 2019 by Land Report Editors

Featured listings from our Investing Issue highlight our November newsletter, including: Colorado’s Diamond Tail Ranch. Martha’s Vineyard’s Red Gate Farm. Virginia’s Eldon Stock Farm. Washington’s Lakeridge Homestead. For up-to-the-minute reports on breaking news, be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram.

Tagged with: Diamond Tail Ranch, Eldon Stock Farm, Lakeridge Homestead, Red Gate Farm
Posted in Agriculture, Auctions, Cattle, Colorado, Conservation, Farming, Hunting, Massachusetts, News Desk, Newsletter, Northeast, Pacific, Public Land, South, Southwest, Texas, Timber, Virginia, Washington, Water, West

Sporting Goods Sales Tax Revenue on the Ballot

Posted on November 5, 2019 by Land Report Editors

For more than two decades, Texas legislators have used sales tax revenues from sporting goods sales as a private piggy bank, directing those receipts away from the outdoors to other line items in the state budget. Thanks to the Texas…

Land Report 2018 Timberland Deal of the Year: Triple T Timberlands

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Land Report Editors

Billion Dollar Texas Timberland Sale. By Cary Estes What many are touting as the timberland transaction of the decade actually was more than a decade in the making. Campbell Global sold 1.1 million acres in East Texas for $1.39 billion…

SOLD! South Texas’s La Bandera Ranch Sells

Posted on October 16, 2019 by Land Report Editors

The sale of the South Texas hunting ranch, which was listed for sale at $54 million, was recently announced by Whitetail Properties, which noted that the transaction was the largest in the company’s history. Hunters from around the world have…

Tagged with: hunting, La Bandera, land, sold, South Texas, Whitetail Properties
Posted in Feature, Hunting, News Desk, Southwest, Texas

Stefan Soloviev: 2018 Land Report 100 sponsored by LandLeader

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Land Report Editors

No. 33 Stefan Soloviev 325,077 acres (up 1,377 acres) This entrepreneur has moved back to his native New York City in order to work more closely with father, 90-year old real estate developer Sheldon Solow. (The CEO of CROSSROADS AGRICULTURE…

Malone Mitchell 3rd: 2018 Land Report 100 sponsored by LandLeader

Posted on September 28, 2019 by Land Report Editors

No. 32 Malone Mitchell 3rd 326,000 acres The CEO of Riata Corporate Group has established his LONGFELLOW RANCHES as one of the finest hunting properties in the Trans-Pecos region of Far West Texas. A full-service 4,700-squarefoot lodge welcomes guests. Hunts…

Kinder Morgan Feels the Heat

Posted on September 28, 2019 by Land Report Editors

The construction of a $2 billion pipeline that extends 430 miles from Far West Texas to the Gulf Coast is going to generate opposition, especially by landowners such as Matthew Walsh whose property it crosses. Walsh filed a claim in…