The Texana Review - Fall Rural Land Roundup

Economist Dr. Charles Gilliland Upbeat On Rural Land Trends

Dr. Charles Gilliland, Research Economist at the Real Estate Center in College Station, uses statistical analysis to monitor rural land trends in Texas.  The abundant data collected over the years provides good 20/20 hindsight as to what has happened to land sales and prices in the past, and offers a reliable tool for predicting where they might go in the future.  He tells us about it.

33:40 minutes

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Website:  The Real Estate Center
Email:  Dr. Charles Gilliland

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Southeast Texas Land Trends Spurred By Houstonians and Out-of-Staters

Wayne Young is an Accredited Rural Appraiser and appraises for the Capital Farm Credit Bank out of Huntsville.  He has been tracking rural land trends in southeast Texas for many years and shares with us his experiences and where he thinks the trend will go within the foreseeable future.

18:10 minutes

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Website: Capital Farm Credit
Email:  Wayne Young

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North/Northeast Texas Land in Demand But Supply Thin

Pat Murphy is a full time rural land appraiser working out of Paris, Texas.  He has been tracking rural land trends in north and northeast Texas for many years and notes that demand for farm and ranch property is still high but available properties are hard to find.  Listen to Pat's perspective on rural land trends in an area of the state that includes the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.

16:00 minutes

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Email: wp_murphy@sbcglobal.net

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Central West Texas Land Prices Continue To Soar

Tom Lee is one of the principals at his San Angelo firm, Lee, Lee & Puckett Associates, which has been in the farm and ranch sales and appraisal business for over 42 years.  His grasp of the sales activity and rural land trends that have occurred over the past several years provides some excellent insight at to what's been happening in the Central West Texas area.

14:52 minutes

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Link: Lee, Lee & Puckett Associates website

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Agricultural Uses of Rural Texas Land Alive and Well in the Panhandle

Geroge Clift's company, Clift, Scott and Associates, out of Amarillo sells, appraises and auctions Texas Panhandle and South Plains farms and ranches.  George himself has a firm grip on the farm and ranch market in the Panhandle and shares with us his take on how the market has been performing in the recent past and offers a few predictions as what that area of the state can expect in the future.

15:16 minutes

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Website: Clift, Scott and Associates

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Far West Texas Is Big Ranch Country; Chip Cole Calls As He Sees It

Chip Cole has been selling and appraising big ranches in far west Texas for years and has a sensitive finger on the pulse of activity in the most sparsely populated area of the state.  He shares some of his experiences and observations about the big country in west Texas.

15:20 minutes

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Phone: 325-655-3555

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South Texas Rural Land In Big Demand Says Merrill Swanson

Merrill Swanson is an Accredited Rural Appraiser licensed Texas Real Estate Broker who has focused most of his business in the south Texas area of the state.  He notes that sales have been brisk in south Texas and that there's a shortage of available properties for sale.

17:07 minutes

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Email: meswanson@dcgappraisers.net

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Hill Country Land Trends Watched Carefully By Dan Hatfield

Dan Hatfield is a 27-year veteran in farm and ranch brokerage in the Hill Country area of Texas and has seen a lot of ups and downs in the market since 1979.  He admits that the sales activity and price escalations over last several years have been surprising and tells us what he thinks will happen next.

14:23 minutes

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Links:
Texas Homestead Real Estate website

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