Nice booming cities 35 minutes from the cities is where people are thinking about as far as they would like to go. That goes for $110,000 an acre decent home $250,000.
Nice home $400,000+
get out about 10-15 minutes and the land is maybe $70,000
an acre.
Another 10-15 minutes out probably $40,000 an acre
those are rough numbers.
I've got a 3300sq foot house, enclosed swimming pool, 40 acres, one 2400sq foot shop, a 1200sq foot store front, and a quater mile of hiway frontage thats sitting on a private lake in Texas that I have a contract on for $225k. Its just 3 miles outside of Tyler which is a town of about 90k population. Dallas is 90 miles west and Shreveport is 90 miles east.
It was a cool place but still needed some work, and the upkeep on 40 acres was killing me.... I hate driving a tractor, plus I never used the land for anything.
One day I said fuckit, and bought a place in Las Vegas, and just left the house in Texas sitting there. The first guy that the real estate agent showed it to, put a deposit on it... deal is supposed to close on the 25th.
I would imagine that 100 acres of undeveloped Sussex forest within 30 minutes drive of my house would cost around £500,000. Its a bit of a guess but pretty close I think. A bit further east and you could probably double that price as you'd be in Paul McCartney's back yard.
You can find some ranches in that size range in Florida for about 1/2 a mil way out in the boondock agricultural areas.
South Florida forget about it. Myself and a group of friends bid on a 7 acre property last year for investment purposes but got outbid on it.
I've never gone over 3 acres. 1 acre is more than plenty.
100 acres is a lot of ground to manage if it has estate style landscaping.
I have a family friend in Philadelphia with a huge 500 acre estate. The thing is unreal. You could get lost on the trails near his lakes. The main house is spooky looking. It has that old aristocratic gothic castle look like you see in England's manors.
I believe that you can get acreage around here for about $200/acre.
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Originally posted by KRL I've never gone over 3 acres. 1 acre is more than plenty.
Dunno, on 1 acre you can still see your neighbours house. At least 2 and closer to 4, some of it forested would be ideal for me. Nice size house with a nice area of land around it. Play your music as loud as you please, skinny dip in the pool, let the kids run around without fear that they are gonna get run over...it has to be the way to go.
IM in north FL and about 30 miles out of gainesville. I have 10 acres and buying 200 more behind where I am right now..
The property is going for about 2000 to 3500 per acre depending on if it is cleared or not.
Just keep onething in mind. INTERNET CONNECTION!!!
I DO NOT have dsl, cable. Neither are available in my area for at least another 5 years. Thats what they tell us. We do have satellite, and my dial up is faster.
I bought 900 acres last month.. just splitting it up. Varies a lot depending on "views" blah... from around $4900 to $30K+ an acre.
This is undeveloped land.. but much more and needs preserving. We have three kinds of monkeys, parrots and tucans and... well loads of wildlife and three endangered species.
A few minutes away and you have "desert island" beach with palms blah. This is in a bay with almost no "humans" in sight.
Plots adjacent to the land are on the market at around $70K/hectare and up to $1.5mill/hect for beachfront.
Next year we are constucting a "community complex" with stuff like an eco lodge, homes, hotel etc.
Hey, my hubby grew up on Curtis Ave in Manhattan Beach.
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I bought 40 acres of land in Oklahoma for 800 per acre. Still have it.
10 acres outside of Lawrence KS for 1200/acre. Sold it for 1800/per.
And was looking at land in Jackson Hole WY, that was
out of my range @ 34k/acre.
Those were taken from my porch and around the property
I should also mention this area is covered in lakes and rivers, it's about 20 minutes ffrom the largest provincial park in the country, and there's a ton of wildlife, and great places to shoot too!
Originally posted by Tala Hey, my hubby grew up on Curtis Ave in Manhattan Beach.
Really! I like it there...the weekends are the best. My friends and I jumped on the Motorcycles and just cruised all through the beach cities yesterday...not raising hell just pimpin along enjoying the beautiful Sunday Sun.
I love going to Ponchos on Tues to watch the Karaoke fools...too funny
Well depends on where its at. The house I am moving into, the property is about $150k on the water ( and this is no mans land ), other places off the water you can get for $50k for 25 acres. This is in the smack dab middle of Michigan.
100 acres of the best deer hunting for about $80,000 but if that is what you are looking for...dont spend your money....just come on down and go with us
Here in the North GA mountains it all depends on WHERE. You can still buy large tracts for $5-7K an acre, but on top of the mountain where I live, I've seen half acre view lots go for $35-50K.
Wig with Achdebit bought his property about 3 years ago - it was a couple of different tracts and I think the average was $7K or so an acre. He has an AWESOME view and a large creek that runs through it.
I'm on a little under 2 acres, but it's all wooded and I'm on a small lake. There's also greenbelt all around my property that's owned by the HOA so no one can build on it. During the summer, I can't see another house. In the winter, just parts of homes. I've been here over 2 years and I've never closed the shades on any of the windows. The 3 sliding glass doors don't even HAVE them. I paid under $200K for everything - small log house and then 2 additional lots.
A lot of Atlanta is retiring up here now. If I had $1mil+, I'd be buying up property like MAD here. If anyone wants to invest and I'll be the middlewoman with the local scoop, LMK
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