10 articles on land investing, market strategy, and off-market deals
A 1031 exchange is a tax-deferred swap of real property held for productive use in a trade or business or for investment for like-kind property. The theory behind a 1031 exchange i...
Land development financing is not the same as horizontal construction lending. A land acquisition and development loan funds entitlement, engineering, dirt work, and infrastructure...
Every developer has heard the old line: build the project three times in your head before you build it once in the dirt. That is especially true for manufactured home parks, RV par...
Most developers underestimate drainage until the rain comes. Then they find out that the lowest point of the parcel is under the proposed office pad, that the access road dips towa...
Most land developers think the hard part is grading, entitlement, or construction. It is not. The hardest part is finding dirt that checks enough boxes to justify a pro forma and s...
Every land developer has a story about a parcel with “city utilities nearby” that turned into a hundred-and-fifty-thousand-dollar utility extension once the engineer saw the plans....
Subdivision platting is the legal act of turning one piece of dirt into multiple pieces of dirt with defined boundaries, easements, access, and recorded rights. It is governed by s...
Before a lender will fund development, before an investor will commit equity, and before a developer should commit land, someone needs to prove the project makes economic sense. Th...
Most developers buying land outside the city limits eventually face the same problem: the county will not extend sewer, the city will not extend sewer, and the zoning code still re...
Most new land developers treat zoning like a suggestion that can be fixed later. Experienced operators treat it like a contract. Zoning codes define what can be built, where it can...