For Sale: Kevin Costner’s Field of Dreams for $5.4 Million

By all accounts, it’s the typical sort of listing you see advertised in The Land Report:

FOR SALE. 193-acre corn farm for sale in eastern Iowa for $5.4 million. Owned and farmed by same family for over a century. Includes two-bedroom house, barn built in the mid-1800s, and baseball diamond built by Universal Studios.

OK, maybe the Lansing family’s farm is not so ordinary. Twenty years ago it got a serious upgrade courtesy of Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta, James Earl Jones, and a blockbuster movie called Field of Dreams.

“If you build it, they will come.” – The Voice, Field of Dreams

Located outside Dyersville, much of the land in the listing has been in the Lansing family for over a century, but for Don and Becky Lansing it’s time to retire. As Becky Lansing told the Associated Press, “We really would just love to become spectators. We want to sit in the bleachers. We want to look forward to all that the Field of Dreams will become in the future.”

Asking price on the 193 acres is $5.4 million, including a total of seven structures and two websites. Additional acreage is available. Ken Sanders is representing the Lansings. Further information is available HERE.

Land Report Newsletter May 2010

Dear Reader,

As you scan the May edition of The Land Report’s monthly newsletter, springtime allusions to new growth are particularly apropos. The ever increasing number of transactions at all price points, including top-tier properties, clearly demonstrates that rural land markets are finally escaping the doldrums.

A long list of brokered transactions and auction results supports this development; some of the most notable ones are highlighted in this month’s newsletter. You’ll learn about all of these and more courtesy of The Land Report Newsletter, published by the Editors of The Land Report.

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