Developers

Land Report Certified Community: Texas Grand Ranch

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Land Report Editors

Texas’s first Land Report Certified Community – Texas Grand Ranch – is a timbered haven just minutes from The Woodlands. Text by Eric O’Keefe | Photography by Gustav Schmiege III & Natalia Zamarripa When I was a youngster growing up…

Tagged with: Land Report Certified Community, Patten, Texas, Texas Grand Ranch
Posted in Certified Communities, Developers, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Gustav Schmiege, News Desk, Recreation, Residential Property, Southwest, Texas

On the Block: New Mexico’s 23,000-acre Ute Lake Ranch

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Land Report Editors

Ute Lake Ranch auction postponed until April 7, 2016. A February 19 auction of a 23,000-acre mix of deeded and leased land in Eastern New Mexico has been postponed by the court-appointed receiver until April 7. “The goal is to…

Tagged with: Mason & Morse Ranch Company, United Country Dynasty Auction, Ute Lake Ranch
Posted in Agriculture, Auctions, Cattle, Developers, Feature, New Mexico, Southwest

Land Report February 2016 Newsletter

Posted on February 15, 2016 by Land Report Editors

Thanks to his acquisition of Texas’s Waggoner Ranch, Stan Kroenke vaulted from No. 9 on the Land Report 100 to No. 5 earlier this month. Read more about this historic sale in our February newsletter, and learn about: A Napa estate…

Tagged with: Bernard Uechtritz, California Coastal Commission, Chicago Fed, Coldwell Banker Previews International, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Joel Leadbetter, Mason & Morse Ranch Company, Napa Valley, Pacific Union, Robin Williams, Sam Middleton, Stan Kroenke, Ute Lake Ranch, Waggoner Ranch
Posted in Agriculture, Auctions, Bankruptcy, California, Cattle, Conservation, Developers, Energy, Farming, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Midwest, New Mexico, News Desk, Newsletter, Pacific, Recreation, Residential Property, Southwest, Texas, Wisconsin

2014 Land Report Best Brokerage: Ranch Marketing Associates

Posted on January 26, 2016 by Land Report Editors

Ranch Marketing Associates www.rmabrokers.com (970) 535-0881 2014 Sales: $50 – $100 Million Who: Specializing in investment-grade ranches, farms, and recreational properties. Wow: Listed Wolf Springs Ranch, a legacy bison ranch consisting of 55,486 deeded acres in South Central Colorado. Insight:…

Posted in Agriculture, Auctions, Cattle, Colorado, Conservation, Developers, Equestrian, Feature, Hunting, Idaho, Minerals, Montana, Nevada, Recreation, Residential Property, Southwest, Utah

2014 Land Report Best Brokerage: Mossy Oak Properties of the Heartland

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Land Report Editors

Mossy Oak Properties of the Heartland www.mopheartland.com (816) 224-6868 2014 Sales: $50 – $100 Million Who: Land brokers with expertise in Illinois and Indiana’s rural, farm, and recreational properties. Wow: Strong referral network of loyal clients; a single sale resulted…

Posted in Agriculture, Auctions, Cattle, Developers, Farming, Feature, Hunting, Illinois, Indiana, Midwest, Recreation, Residential Property, Timber

New York’s Plum Island to Fetch $1 Billion?

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Land Report Editors

The rhetoric keeps ramping up surrounding the future of Plum Island at the eastern edge of Long Island. Two years ago, Homeland Security declared that in advance of shuttering the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in 2023, the entire island…

Posted in Conservation, Developers, Feature, Federal Policy, New York, News Desk, Northeast, Public Land

Kelo Postmortem

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Land Report Editors

A decade has passed since the Rehnquist Court’s “intellectually unsound” decision in Kelo v. City of New London. On June 23, 2005, a team of attorneys for the Institute for Justice (IJ), a nonprofit libertarian public interest law firm, was…

Tagged with: City of New London, Kelo, Property rights
Posted in Connecticut, Corinne Garcia, Developers, Feature, Federal Policy, News Desk, Northeast, Public Land, Residential Property

Land Report September 2015 Newsletter

Posted on September 15, 2015 by Land Report Editors

While the U.S. economy suffers through starts and stops, land sales and land listings keep humming along. Here are some of the September newsletter’s highlights: A key timberland sale in Florida; A potential $1 billion listing off Long Island; A $5 million…

Tagged with: Gunnison sage-grouse, John Hickenlooper, Long Island, San Francisco Bay, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Posted in Arizona, California, Colorado, Conservation, Developers, Federal Policy, Florida, New Mexico, New York, News Desk, Newsletter, Northeast, Pacific, Public Land, Recreation, Residential Property, South, Southwest, Timber, Utah, West, Wyoming

2014 Land Report Best Brokerage: Coldwell Banker Commercial Saunders Real Estate

Posted on September 11, 2015 by Land Report Editors

Coldwell Banker Commercial Saunders Real Estate www.saundersrealestate.com (863) 648-1528 2014 Sales: > $500 Million Who: Authority on all types of Florida land, transacting over $1 billion in sales from 1996 to 2014. Wow: Dean Saunders and Jack Vogel represented AgReserves…

Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Conservation, Developers, Equestrian, Farming, Feature, Florida, Hunting, Recreation, Residential Property, South, Timber, Water

Coalition Sues the U.S. Forest Service to Block Land Swap

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Land Report Editors

A group of nonprofits has filed a 72-page lawsuit alleging that the U.S. Forest Service failed to be transparent and to follow federal environmental law when it approved a land swap with Developer Red McCombs. In May, the Forest Service…

Posted in Colorado, Conservation, Developers, Feature, Federal Policy, News Desk, Public Land, West