The National Land Podcast

Clint Flowers has done hundreds of land deals across Alabama. He has never seen anything like what happened in Baldwin County.

The transaction was straightforward on paper: 4,500 acres of former paper company land, largely un-zoned, sold to a buyer who planned to develop it for solar energy supporting a data center. The deal had been public for years, had gone through ...

Ryan Schroeter has been selling land in Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota for nearly 30 years. He estimates that 90 percent of the sellers he talks to are dealing with some version of the same situation: land that is jointly owned, inherited, or headed toward a forced sale because life got in the way. In this conversation, he breaks down everything that can go sideways when mul...

If you own land, chances are you have gotten the letter. Someone you have never heard of wants to buy your property, close fast, pay cash, and make it easy. Pat Snyder, managing broker for National Land Realty in western North Carolina, gets about one call a week from landowners trying to figure out whether that letter is legitimate, a lowball, or something to ignore entirely...

Matthew Symonds grew up on a ranch in western Nebraska, started training barrel horses right out of high school, and recently added a real estate license to the list. He is new to land sales and not pretending otherwise. What he brings instead is a lifetime of working with horses, reading animals, and figuring out when to push and when to walk away, instincts that translate t...

The Delmarva Peninsula sits between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, two hours from Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington DC, and it is one of the last relatively undeveloped stretches of the entire eastern megalopolis. It is also the third most vulnerable spot in the country to sea level rise. That combination makes it one of the most interesting places in America...