Investor’s Business Daily

In everyone’s haste to enjoy the Labor Day weekend – to kick off the college football season or get ready for the first day of dove hunting – there’s a better than average chance that few people noticed the front and center reference to the Land Report in Friday’s Investor’s Business Daily. So now that all of us are back on the clock and are now surfing the Net, I thought I’d bring attention to the fact that land and investing in land is still the great unknown for many publications and their readers. There are more than 2.3 billion acres of land in the U.S., and 80 percent of us live on just 3 percent of that total. Think about that the next time a news program focuses exclusively on the drop in housing starts.

More Field Reports From The Land Report:

1. Ask the Expert: Scott Jones
   The second session of the 111th Congress is already under way, and landowners have a lot at stake. With that in mind, The Land Report turns to Scott Jones...
2. Ten Million Americans Own Timberland
   Which asset class offers growth, a hedge against inflation, and has great tax benefits? Timber. That’s one of the many interesting points brought out by this in-depth article that...
3. Texas Land Values Drop Just 7% in 2009
   The Texas land market saw bargain hunters staring down unmotivated sellers throughout 2009. The end result, according to Charles Gilliland and Abhijeet Gunadekar at the Texas Real Estate Center,...