So, what's an acre cost in your area?

With all those pricey numbers being tossed around, anyone want to buy 143 wooded acres in Brunswick county Va. The property is near Lake Gaston and just outside of the town of Gasburg and has road frontage and utilities. $1600 per acre....must take the entire parcel, no owner financing.

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$50,000 CDN (nearly at par with USD) a Quarter Section we paid $34,000 CDN 7 years ago and had to do some clearing and breaking to get the 55 acres into production shown in the picture below, but it is top bottom land -- the best there is. Excellent garden, normally one cut, maybe two of hay. Forty below in winter, 80 F above for a few weeks in summer, sun up at 4 am down at 10 pm -- work even later.

or around $300 an acre

Minimum lot is 160 acres



Northern British Columbia, Canada, near Moberly Lake, near Fort St John, near Dawson Creek and Mile Zero of the Alaska Highway. Quarters can be $50,000 (or less -- probably need to do some clearing and breaking) to $200,000 (most in production, fenced, house maybe -- at the higher amount) ($300 to 1,200 per acre.) The highest you will see is $1200 per acre ever and that would be closer to town. But prices are rising.

This land is in, Agriculture Land Reserve, so it can not be developed for other uses.

Alex

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WOW, what amazing prices on acres. We bought a little over 40 acres for app $1200 an acre about 1 1/2 years ago. And we love the place that we have with mostly wooded, creek and an 1 1/2 acre pond. We have always counted our blessing and even more so after reading this thread.

I'm in rural Ottawa, an acre building lot starts at 50k. Not bad really. a 5 acre runs 70kish, there are slightly cheaper large lots if it's in wetter areas. Move closer to the city proper and lots start at 70k and move up to 100k in better areas. It's fairly common for redevelopment land to sell over 200k per acre (or less) with a house to be removed.

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Here around Fairbanks rural land below the ice fog with power and phone available goes for around $3K tp $5K and acre in three to five acre parcels. View property above the ice fog can go for $30K to $60K and acre. Being above the ice fog and the inversion can make the difference between being 50 below or 20 below in winter. Property a bit more rural but still within a reasonable distance to Fairbanks, without power cane be had for $1K per acre in say 10 to 20 acre parcels. Remote property with air, water or trial access only can go for as low as $500 per acre in larger parcels, even with river frontage.

Approx. $3,500/acre, we have 20 acres with a single wide and a huge pole barn.

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wide range in my area but it depends on what you want.
anywhere from 1500 an acre to 250,000 an acre
I would guess average is around 30-45,000 an acre in town. Country 1,500 - 18,000 and lake front or prime is outrageous 250,000 plus.

We paid 15,000.00 an acre( 6 acres) 7 years ago.
The 11 acres next to us is going for 100,000.00 an acre.
Down the hill in a subdivision with paved roads and all services but water they are asking $200,000.00 an acre.

My neighbor just accepted an offer on his house. 5 years old 2 acres 2400 sq ft for about 950,000.00

55 acres 1/8 mile from us sold for about 2,000,000.00 around last Nov.
It is now listed for 4,200,000.00.

There is no slow down here.

The 30 acres next door to us here in NW MS is up for sale at $5000 per acre. Five years ago it was going for $1200.

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I no longer live there...but I remember how cheap wooded acreage was in Southeast Missouri. It went for around $500.00 for wooded areas, $1000.00 an acre for pasture (which was rare). That is about the cheapest area (I have personally seen) for acreage. Even the property taxes were low. I believe I paid $200.00 annually for 16 acres (4 years ago).

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For 50 and more...

5 years ago -- $1,000
3 years ago -- $2,000
2 years ago -- $3,000
1 year ago -- $3,500
Today -- $4,000-plus, depending on location

You cross the county line, into Alabama, and it starts at about $8,000.

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The county assessor's office, which is normally around 20 percent low, says our 1.25 acres is now worth $243,000, without improvements. That puts an acre at about $194,000 according to the assessor, but you will find precious few in our neighborhood, what with all the apartments and condos going in. (I just love my buck goats!)

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With a share (usually 1/3rd to 1/6th) in a good well, $30K. This is down from $70K-100K 18 months ago, but still way up from the 23K I paid for 2.4 seven years ago.

Without water, whatever the owner can get the sucker to pay -- usually in the range of $20-25K/acre. Almost inevitably, the person buying is from the city and doesn't realize that they can't just sink a well and get water and quite often they end up hauling it in by truck, but there's plenty of suckers out there.

It's possible to sink a well a thousand feet and not find water here, if you're over an outcrop of granite. Any more than about a thousand feet and you don't get potable water, plus pumping it is not economical.

Is this in Arkansas? What town/county? I'm thinking about moving to Arkansas.

In my town you would have to pay about 120K for a minimum building lot, 2.5 acres. I worked on a job this winter in which the house took up 30% of the square footage of the lot, and the people paid $860k for the privilege of building on it, they don't own it, some kind of long term lease. This was in a subdivision.


Dave

There is a 2+ acre parcel w/ mobile home around the corner from me listed for $219,000. I would have thought the seller was crazy, but 5 acres and an old frame house nearby just sold for $567,000. Here in Central Florida, sales may be slow, but prices are holding up fairly well.

Northeast Vermont (Orleans County) where we are, the cheapest 1 acre lots we're seeing start around $26,000 for a basic buildable lot, up to around $150,000 for a one acre lakefront lot on one of the larger lakes (Crystal, Willoughby or Memphremagog). The most expensive per acre I've really seen is a lakefront 3.4 acre building lot for $535,000.

Of course, if you're buying 5+ acres, prices start falling. Buildable 5 acre lots start at around $5,000, while a 10 acre lot drops to around $4,000/acre, and 25 acres can go for around $3,200/acre.

I was thinking that land was super-expensive here, but I guess after seeing some of these $30,000/acre for 18 acres, I'm glad I live where I do!

In the area around Augusta Georgia, it really depends on how far out you go, what area (growing or not) and how much you buy at a time. For single acre parcels its $30k and up. If you buy in 5+ acre lots, it's less expensive and starts at 10K and goes up, depending on the area. In the fastest growing areas, it can be 20K per acre even on 5+ acre lots. If you can afford to buy larger parcels of land, and don't choose the areas that are growing the fastest, you can still find land for $5-6k per acre.

Here in the Northwoods of Wisconsin it varies depending on whether you want lake front or not. A 12.5 acre lot just went up for sale next to my friend Kim's place. No driveway, or anything for that matter, other than a bit of lake front with a very small VERY shaded beach. Seller is asking $670,000, that breaks down to $53,600 per acre!!!

Unimproved land in the woods, if you can find it usually goes for $5000 to $10,000 per acre.

Margie

One acre here in the NC foothills can run from $15k to, uh, there seems to be no upper limit, it has gotten insane.

10 to 50 acre tracts are even commonly selling for $15K to $30k/acre.