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…
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68,000-acre Onyx Ranch in California Sells for $48 million
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
Posted in Cattle, Energy, Feature, Pacific, Regional News, Topics
Sold! Oregon’s 42,500-Acre Ochoco Ranch
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.…
Tagged with: Eric O'Keefe, Mason & Morse, Mason & Morse Ranch Company, Ochoco Ranch, Oregon, Robb Van Pelt, Timber
Posted in Cattle, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Hunting, News Desk, Pacific, Timber
Posted in Cattle, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Hunting, News Desk, Pacific, Timber
Clint Eastwood Goes One on One with The Land Report
Clint Eastwood sticks to his guns. Not just when creating iconic characters such as Rowdy Yates, “Dirty” Harry Callahan, and Bill Munny or in his scintillating body of work as a director, but as a landowner. He’s interrupted a family…
Tagged with: Clint Eastwood, Monterey Peninsula, Tehama
Posted in Eric OKeefe, Magazine, November 2007, Pacific
Posted in Eric OKeefe, Magazine, November 2007, Pacific
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola’s Academy Award-winning films are undoubtedly his most famous works, but wine connoisseurs also treasure the acclaimed wines he has been producing at his Napa Valley estate since the mid-1970s.
Tagged with: California, Francis Ford Coppola, Napa County, Napa Valley, wine, wine country
Posted in Farming, Pacific, Residential Property, Topics, Video
Posted in Farming, Pacific, Residential Property, Topics, Video
“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 today’s Wall Street Journal. It’s about CALPers and its tanking…
BLM Makes Push to Buy Western Land
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
Posted in Federal Policy, Magazine, News Desk, November 2007, Pacific, Public Land, Regional News, Southwest, Topics, West
Francis Ford Coppola: The Land Report Interview
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
Posted in Conservation, Farming, Feature, July 2007, Magazine, Pacific, Regional News, Residential Property, Topics
How to Buy a Napa Vineyard
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…
Tagged with: California, Francis Ford Coppola, Mike Silvas, Morgan Lane Real Estate, Napa, vineyards, wine, wine making
Posted in Eric OKeefe, Farming, Feature, June 2007, Magazine, News Desk, Pacific, Regional News, Topics
Posted in Eric OKeefe, Farming, Feature, June 2007, Magazine, News Desk, Pacific, Regional News, Topics
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