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“Land is the Riskiest Form of Speculative Real Estate”

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

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 today’s Wall Street Journal. It’s about CALPers and its tanking…

Tagged with: calpers, investing in land, risk
Posted in Eric OKeefe, Feature, Pacific

BLM Makes Push to Buy Western Land

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY JOSEPH GUINTO PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2007 Under a federal law, the BLM, an arm of the Department of the Interior, has begun buying private properties that carve into federal wildlife refuges, national parks, national forests, and their ilk, making those…

Tagged with: BLM, Coachella Valley, Interior Department, Joe Guinto, Joshua Tree National Park, National Park Service, Taylor Grazing Act, USFS
Posted in Federal Policy, Magazine, News Desk, November 2007, Pacific, Public Land, Regional News, Southwest, Topics, West

Francis Ford Coppola: The Land Report Interview

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY JULIE BLACKLIDGE PUBLISHED JULY 2007 You’ve seen his work. Chances are you’ve tasted it as well. The winner of five Academy Awards, Francis Ford Coppola has also won rave reviews for his wines. His first release, a 1977…

Tagged with: California, Francis Ford Coppola, Gustave Niebaum, Inglenook, Napa Valley, Queen of the Napa Valley, wine, winemaking
Posted in Conservation, Farming, Feature, July 2007, Magazine, Pacific, Regional News, Residential Property, Topics

How to Buy a Napa Vineyard

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Eric OKeefe

I came across this little ditty from the June 2007 issue when Julie Blacklidge profiled Francis Ford Coppola and we got some great interview footage of FFC that is now in our Video Archives. I think a more complete How…