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. Not Your Typical Water Hazard
   What story broke yesterday and continues to dominate the business press today? Begin by asking yourself which feature adds the most value to a piece of rural or recreational land. As we all...
2. “Land is the Riskiest Form of Speculative Real Estate”
   Every once is a while, someone gets it so wrong that they end up being right. This quote by Paul Puryear, a housing analyst at Raymond James & Associates, ran in...
3. Adults Only - The New Interior Department Reality Show
   The fine folks who gave America the Teapot Dome Scandal are pleased to bring their fellow citizens a sizzling new take on government outreach, including sex, drugs, and lucrative consulting contracts. The lurid scandal,...
4. Rising Fuel Costs & the American Landowner
   11 billion miles. That's the decrease in the number of miles Americans drove in March 2008 versus March 2007, according to the Federal Highway Administration. As this article in the...
5. 678,000 Acres for $20 Million?
   For the price of a penthouse overlooking Central Park, an investor could also buy 1,000 square miles in Brazil. Prices such as this listing in the Amazon River basin's Madeira River...