Land News & Opinions

04.06.09 / Vacation-Home Sales Down; Land Values Up

Both sales and selling prices of vacation homes fell in 2008, according to member survey data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released this week. Sales of existing and new vacation homes dropped almost 31 percent to 512,000 in 2008, from 740,000 in 2007 and a high of 1.07 million in ...

03.27.09 / An Outdoorsman Finds His Life’s Calling – Mark Lewis of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Owner of Mississippi Land Company

Editor’s Note: Mississippi Land Company (MLC) represents buyers and sellers of property in Mississippi. The company also advises buyers before, during and after the sale and offers information and assistance on any issue or problem relating to land. MLC coordinates timber sales, plants trees, ...

03.26.09 / We walk and talk: A Bub in the woods

By Curtis Seltzer Three big helicopters flew in low and fast over Devil’s Backbone, the 4,000-foot-high Appalachian ridge that is the eastern rim of my end of Virginia’s Blue Grass Valley. They landed soft about 8:30 on Saturday morning in the front pasture. Sophie and Lucy, our two yel...