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For Sale: Santa Barbara’s Majestic Royal Rancho

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Land Report Editors

In a day and age when private beachfront property is virtually non-existent in California, one of the state’s most historic ranches is on the market for the first time in decades. One of the last large tracts along the Gaviota…

Tagged with: Cojo Ranch, Gaviota, Harry Truman, Herbert Wylie, Jalama Ranch, John H. Williams, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Kerry Mormann, Pacific Ocean, Rancho Dos Pueblos, Rudolf Schulte, Samuel Mosher, Santa Ynez Mountains, Walter Pidgeon
Posted in Feature, Pacific, Regional News

Interior Department Investigates Renewable Energy Speculators

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Eric OKeefe

Remember the Interior Department’s ongoing investigation into possible abuses of the Royalty-in-Kind program? Now the department’s Inspector General has started to look into possible abuses by companies seeking to develop renewable energies on BLM land. Three years ago, BLM received six applications…

Tagged with: BLM, California, Grant Gannon, Ken Salazar, Renewable Energy, Royalty-in-Kind, solar energy
Posted in Conservation, Developers, Energy, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Federal Policy, Minerals, News Desk, Pacific, Public Land, West

For Sale: 30-Acre Napa Valley Vineyard

Posted on June 1, 2009 by Land Report Editors

Tired of some sommelier always offering overpriced vino? Think you could churn out a choice wine using your own grapes? Then what’s stopping you? This 30-acre Napa Valley vineyard is all about the dirt . Jocelyne Monello of Heritage Sotheby’s…

Tagged with: California, Heritage Sotheby's International Realty, Jocelyne Monello, Napa, Napa County, Napa Valley
Posted in Farming, Feature, Grant Gannon, News Desk, Pacific, Regional News, Topics

Supreme Court Rules 9-0 Against Hawaiians’ Land Claims

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Eric OKeefe

Last week the nation’s highest court ruled that Native Hawaiians do not have a legal claim to state lands totaling more than 1.2 million acres. Native Hawaiians as well as the state’s Office of Hawaiian Affairs had asserted that a…

Tagged with: Congressional Apology Resolution, Eric O'Keefe, Hawaii, Mark Bennett
Posted in Eric OKeefe, Feature, Federal Policy, News Desk, Pacific, Public Land, Regional News, Topics

Bidding to Start at $22 Million for 69-Acre Napa Winery

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

Bidding on Kirkland Ranch Winery closed yesterday at noon. The sealed bid auction started at $22 million for the 69-acre Southern Napa County winery, which includes 45 acres of vineyards. Bidders also had the option to purchase an additional 186…

Tagged with: Kirkland Ranch Winery, Napa Valley, Napa winery, sealed bid
Posted in Eric OKeefe, Farming, Feature, News Desk, Pacific, Regional News, Topics

Border Fence Spikes Demand for Appraisers

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

670 miles. That’s the distance along the U.S.-Mexico border that the Department of Homeland Security wants to cordon off with its 18-foot-high border fence. The sheer size of this massive undertaking and the number of property owners already disputing the…

Tagged with: appraisers, border fence, Department of Homeland Security, Eric O'Keefe, Justice Department, U.S.-Mexico border
Posted in Feature, Federal Policy, News Desk, Pacific, Regional News, Southwest

Tom Barrack Takes Control of Neverland

Posted on November 28, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

Earlier this month, AP reported a development that every real estate professional in Santa Barbara County fully anticipated: Neverland no longer belongs to Michael Jackson. The new owner of the 2,500-acre trophy property? That was even less of a surprise: Sycamore Valley…

Tagged with: California, Colony Capital, Eric O'Keefe, Santa Barbara County, Santa Ynez, Sycamore Valley Ranch, Tom Barrack
Posted in Cattle, Equestrian, Eric OKeefe, Farming, Feature, News Desk, Pacific, Recreation, Regional News, Residential Property, Topics

Ted Turner Tops the 2008 Land Report 100

Posted on November 1, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

For the second year in a row, Ted Turner take top honors as America’s largest landowner with more than a dozen properties totaling more than 2 million acres. Add to this more than 100,000 acres in Argentina, where he owns…

Tagged with: Bar None Ranch, Beau Turner, Call Me Ted, Collon Cura, Flying D Ranch, Gone With the Wind, Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, La Primavera, Mike Phillips, Mikhail Gorbachev, Patagonia, Russ Miller, Scarlett O'Hara, Ted Turner, Tierra del Fuego, Turner Endangered Species Fund, Vermejo Park
Posted in Cattle, Conservation, Farming, Feature, Great Plains, Hunting, Minerals, News Desk, Pacific, Recreation, South, Southwest, Timber, West

68,000-acre Onyx Ranch in California Sells for $48 million

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Land Report Editors

The Wall Street Journal reports this morning on a huge transaction in California: the 68,000-acre Onyx Ranch in the Sierra Nevada Mountains just outside of Bakersfield sold for $48 million ($705 per acre) to a joint partnership of the CIM Group, a…

Tagged with: California, Onyx Ranch, Pickens Plan, Renewable Resources Group, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, wind energy, Wind power
Posted in Cattle, Energy, Feature, Pacific, Regional News, Topics

Sold! Oregon’s 42,500-Acre Ochoco Ranch

Posted on October 6, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

The heavily timbered Ochoco Ranch, located in Central Oregon just 30 minutes from the red hot market in and around Bend, sold last week to a buyer from Texas who first saw the property at the website of the listing broker, Mason & Morse.…