Double-Digit Jumps in Farmland Sales

June 6, 2017, Ag Web Selling Opportunity for Landowners For non-operating landowners, today’s prices offer an opportunity to sell and capture some of the land appreciation of the past few years, Dickhut says. “So far, few farm operators are selling land, and investors continue to be in the market looking for opportunities to add acres to their holdings,” he says. “The slow decline in the land market is part of the reason some are selling.” On the flip side, the current land market conditions also offer good buying opportunities. See entire article on AgWeb.com

Developments in 2016 Texas Land Markets

Clift Land Brokers was well represented at the 27th Annual Outlook for Texas Land Markets in San Antonio in April. As usual, a lot of great information came out of this conference. One highlight was the presentation by Dr. Charles E. Gilliland,  PhD, Research Economist for Texas A & M University Real Estate Center on Texas Land Values. Click here for a copy of that presentation.  While 2017 1st quarter land values were up statewide 1.8% over 2016 4th quarter, and while other regions showed an increase, Region 1 – TX Panhandle and South Plains Region was down 3.4% over …

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1031 Exchange Thoughts from David Fisher, Creative Real Estate Strategies

For years, Congress has been thinking of making changes to 1031 exchanges but no one really took them seriously. Well, I think that we better start taking them seriously now because the general consensus is that they are going to make changes and it’s going to happen sooner than later. And it probably won’t be pretty. Read Article