Recreational Land: What It Is, What It Earns, and What Protects You
Recreational land is rural acreage held for hunting, fishing or camping rather than crops. Its value tracks access, water and habitat.
Zachary Blakeman
Capital Gains Tax on a Land Sale: Rates, Basis, and the NIIT
Long-term gain on land is taxed at 0, 15 or 20 percent, plus 3.8 percent above the NIIT threshold, after selling costs come off the price.
How to Buy Land Without a Realtor: The Jobs Nobody Else Will Do
You can buy land without an agent in every state. Paying cash also removes the federal disclosure package, because those rules are triggered by credit.
Buy Land With No Credit Check: How Owner Financing Really Works
Yes, through owner financing. The seller sets the terms, so the questions that matter are who holds title and what happens if you miss a payment.
How to Buy Land to Build a House: The Five Checks That Decide
Confirm zoning permits a house, then check soil, water, septic and flood. Two federal protections skip vacant lots because there is no building yet.
Vacant Land for Sale by Owner: How to Tell a Deal From a Trap
A low price is not a deal until the comps, the legal access and the title check out. Two of those three sink most cheap parcels.
How to Buy Land With No Money: Six Methods and Their Real Cost
You can buy land with far less cash than a bank wants, but not with zero. The federal low-cash programme sets a floor of 5 percent you cannot borrow.
How to Sell 1 to 10 Acres by Owner: Pricing, Buyers, and Listing
Small tracts carry a measured per-acre premium over large ones, so pricing a 1 to 10 acre parcel off big-tract comps underprices it.
Off-Grid Land for Sale: Water, Waste, Access and What Is Not Regulated
Off-grid land has no utility service, so you supply water, waste and power. Private well water is not federally regulated, which shifts testing onto you.
Why Land Is Hard to Price: The Parcel Data Gap and What AI Fixes
Land data sits in 3,144 separate county systems with no national program, so the cost of the gap is mispricing rather than slow sales.