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Timber REITs in 2011: Big Decisions, Key Benchmarks and Final Results

January 10, 2012 0 Comments

Early in my investing career, I bought shares of Crown Pacific Partners, a timberland-owning firm headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Farm Land For Sale – Opportunity Alert

January 4, 2012 3 Comments

With the recent run-up in row-crop farmland prices, savvy investors should be looking to similar investments that offer many of the same benefits of crop land ownership, without the hefty price tag.

Inventory of a Land Agent’s Truck

December 20, 2011 11 Comments

Before going to go preview rural land with a real estate agent, ask them what’s in their truck. I never was a Boy Scout. I would have loved to have been one, but just never got the experience.

What about all the other land?

December 7, 2011 0 Comments

The amount of press farmland has received in the last year could fill a few bookshelves. It is amazing that a real estate category that typically turns over at rate of about 3% which is now turning at half that has so much exposure and analysis.