Taking a Poll...How much does acreage go for in your neck of

5-7K per acre.

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I bought 3 acres with 300 ft road frontage at an auction a year ago for 4200. $1400 an acre, traded it for 48 (16 yard) loads of fill dirt and 1500 dollars. so, I guess I got about 6300 for it. There was some advertised recently that I posted somewhere on HT they were asking less than $2000 an acre. it was I think 19 acres for $29k. This back here behind the house got 2k an acre when the state bought it for their game reserve. I bought a bunch of 1/2 acre building lots for 2500 apiece. already grandfathered in for home lots, and I didn't want to get old and a bunch of people start putting up rent houses next to me. Now I own the entire "Country line hills" subdivision. Known at the courthouse as "end of the road farm"

About 4-5k/ac here, unless you insist on water or dirt on top of the rocks, then it's gonna cost ya. Nobody really knows since nobody ever sells here. It might be possible to buy old coal tailings and shale for a few k/ac and haul in some 40 yd trucks full of dirt to sprinkle on it. That's why they call Kentucky 'lil Mordor'. I hear Indyanner and Moesurri is both nice. They have fish also.

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Here in Wisconsin I have seen prices as rediculous as 50,000 and acre all the way down to 3-500 acre. Typical rule of thumb is the farther one gets from the Milwaukee/Madison area the cheaper land gets. There has been a bit of a land boom out here in the county where I live the last few years. A bunch of people from the large metro areas from the southern part of the state and Chicago started buying up land so they could have a little piece of the northwoods. Thanks to them now land has gone way past the point of affordability for the folks that actually live here. Now for small lots the price can vary from 50-80K for water front an acre to right around 3-5k per acre in small 10-20 acre plots. The larger plots run from 1200-3000 an acre. I got a good deal on my place, I paid for the house and the land for what most people are paying for bare land. I got 5.5 acres and a house for 30,000. And it is even right near the county forest. In the northern part of the state I have seen land go for the last year for as little as 250 an acre for mostly wetland that is landlocked. Most of the stuff on the seasonal roads seems to average right around 500-1000 bucks an acre. Key to getting land cheap in this state is getting far enough away from all the big city slickers but not too close to the Great Lakes.

The land boom around here affected home prices as well. Seems like every yahoo with a single wide mobile home and 2 acres thinks they are sitting on a goldmine. Needless to say there is not much moving around here at the moment. People are very stubborn around here and once someone has it in their head that what they have is worth a bit of cash they'll sit on it forever. This goes for anything not just land, they would rather kick the bucket first than take a lower price (seen it happen quite a few times).

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Irrigated farmland goes for about $1,500-2,000/acre. Non-irrigated goes for $500-700/acre. Ranch land goes for $300-500/acre.

Unfortuneately about 80 - 100,000 per acre.

Our land is $120,000 - $140,000 per acre. (Our property tax, with farm status, is only $340.00 per year, for someone who was asking about how much we pay the "queen".)

Do you live in a city? Alex, a poster earlier in the thread, had some nice BC farmland for much less than that for a 1/4 section.

Yeah, Alex is at Moberly Lake in Northern BC. I'm in prime farmland on the east side of the Lower Mainland of Vancouver. It's ridiculous. Mostly small parcels; tons of horses, and more blueberries and raspberries than you've ever seen in your life!
We're about 45 minutes east of Vancouver.
Our land is GOLD. We're poor living on it, though!

I have a friend about 1/2 mile from me whose parents live in St. George, UT. She told them she paid $15,000 for her acre of land. They said, "Oh, $50,000, that's a good price" and she said, "No, [i]fifteen[i/] thousand, not fifty!"

.07-.14 acre lots near my MIL are selling for $99,000. And she wonders why we don't want to move there.