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How to Sell Lots and Land (and Why it’s Different from Selling Homes)

In today’s hot real estate market it’s relatively easy to sell your average house, but selling land can be tricky and knowing how to sell land can make a big difference when you want to sell your land fast. Unlike a move-in ready home, selling dirt can be challenging…in any market. It’s important to equip yourself with the right information on how to sell lots and land and to understand why your strategy with vacant residential land needs to be different from selling a home. Wondering how to sell your land faster? Read on, and follow our 9 Steps for…

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Convert Square Feet to Acres for Land

Do you need to convert square feet to acres? Here’s a tool to help you make the square feet to acres conversion quickly and easily (just scroll down to the orange button if you’re in a big hurry), plus we’ve included some other related information that you may find interesting. Square Feet to Acres Conversion The more your work in real estate the more you see that each state or local market has a different way of doing things.  One of those differences is the unit of measurement that is most commonly used in each market for describing the area of a lot or parcel…

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The Benefits of Selling Land at an Auction

Going…going…gone. If you’re selling real estate, these words might be music to your ears. Real estate auctions are an accelerated process for selling properties through public sale, with many potential benefits to the seller. While auctions are often used to sell distressed properties, they can also be a fruitful way to sell non-distressed lot and land properties. Here are some of the points to consider about selling land at an auction: Timeframe Real estate auctions solidify the timeframe for the sales process. You set the date for the auction and terms for closing (often 30 days), and the timeline for…

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5 Reasons to Sell Land and Lots in Fall and Winter

Why Every Season is Selling Season for Lots & Land The Fall and Winter seasons can be the ideal time for you to find buyers when you are selling vacant land or residential lots. Some landowners who wish to sell land – and even well-meaning real estate pros – mistakenly take their vacant land listings off the market for a few months during this time of the year because of outdated or inapplicable beliefs about “Selling Seasons” for real estate that don’t apply to selling lot and land properties. Read on for 5 reasons why the Fall and Winter seasons can…

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Understanding Property Taxes

Whether you own a vacant lot, single-family home or a commercial building, you likely will pay property taxes. These types of taxes have been collected in the U.S. since early colonial days, and they are not going away. In the words of Benjamin Franklin…”Nothing is certain but death and taxes.” Here’s some information to help you better understand property taxes. What are Property Taxes? A property tax is a tax that is imposed by a local government entity, like a county, city or town, on the value of property in its jurisdiction. Unlike income or inheritance taxes that are connected to…

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Tips on Using Screenshots & Cropping for Better Property Photos

Here are some tips and tools for adding the ideal photos and images to your lot and listings to help you sell. These computer tips can help you both improve bad photos and create new images — like aerial photos — for online listings when you don’t have any property photos at all. And while we think these tips are especially useful for selling land and lots, they also can help you enhance listings for finished homes too. Property Seller’s Dilemma – What if You Have Bad Photos…Or No Photos At All? Photos sell real estate. But many lot and…

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Photos Sell Real Estate: Tips for Great Photos for Lot & Land Listings

Whether you’re selling doodads on EBay or property via a real estate listing website like LotNetwork.com, it’s well known that photos will dramatically increase your ability to both connect with a buyer faster and attract a higher price. And with real estate, pictures not only are worth more than a thousand words…for a Seller they can be worth thousands of dollars. Yet it is amazing how many people that desperately want to sell a property do not include any photographs in their online listings. Zero. These blank property listings fail to get the attention of buyers, delay a sale and…

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Sell Land, Development Projects & Portfolios of Residential Lots with “Project Listings”

A frequent question we hear at LotNetwork.com is from sellers and their brokers asking how they should create their listings when selling residential development projects, land for development or multiple residential lots in bulk. Because LotNetwork.com was created to meet the needs of professionals in the homebuilding and residential real estate development industries, we have just the tools that are needed to help sellers market – and help buyers find! – these types of multi-lot and development property listings. A Common Need — Selling Multiple Lots or Development Projects It’s common for residential developers and homebuilders to need to sell…

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