A conservation easement is a viable solution for landowners who want to protect their land from development. Simply put, a conservation easement is a restriction on the use of property owned by an individual, similar to a deed restriction.

It’s always fun to watch clever people make a profit out of a mess. Take global warming. Today’s consensus opinion — whether you believe it or not, and whether it’s true or not — is that using hydrocarbon fuels and other human activity releas

Among the countless problems that can occur during the “sale pending” period of a land transaction, a survey is at the top of the list.

A good deal is often defined as buying something for less than the seller’s asking price.

Buying real estate is an increasingly complicated process. As the degree of difficulty reaches Olympic levels, more business relationships attach to every deal, which leads to more opportunities for the appearance of the less appealing aspects of...

A few individuals love negotiating over property. Others prefer it to back pain but not by much. Most consider it another one of the endless, necessary miseries of adulthood.

Many more Americans own corporate stock than rural land. Why do we invest in stock, which is risky, rather than land, which is not? Based on a statistically valid opinion survey that I conducted with the reflection on my computer screen, I offer six re

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Since I write a weekly column on country real estate, I decided to visit the websites of Senators Barack Obama (www.barackobama.com) and John McCain (www.johnmccain.com) to learn what they thought about my special interest.