Forbes Profiles Land Report 100

Forbes.com bills itself as the “Home Page for the World’s Business Leaders,” and on Monday the website lived up to its moniker by profiling the top ten U.S. landowners as featured in The Land Report 100. Among the many names familiar to Forbes readers were CNN founder Ted Turner at No. 1 and Liberty Media head honcho John Malone at No. 7.

The website also made a point of singling out several notable news items that have recently run at LandReport.com, including Hall and Hall’s recent listing of the 62,000-acre N Bar Ranch in Montana for $45 million and the sale of Colorado’s Boot Jack Ranch by Telluride broker Bill Fandel for $47 million.

Land Report Editor Eric O’Keefe was quoted as describing current market conditions as follows:

“Investors are no longer sitting on the sidelines, and sellers want liquidity.”

Read the entire article HERE.

Timberland Outperforms the S&P 500?

That’s one of the conclusions from this report that ran online at Forbes.com a few weeks ago titled Cut Down Portfolio Risk With Timber. I had fully expected the author, Robert Stammers, to be a shill for an organization tied to the timber industry. Turns out I was wrong. He’s a CFA, a quant, who specializes in providing strategic planning and analysis for business owners and private investors. What does he have to say about investing in timber? It’s quite simple. Read more