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California Landowner Faces 140 Potential State and Federal Violations
An anonymous tip helped California wildlife officers uncover the worst instance of raptor poaching in state history. Investigators discovered an extraordinary number of rapture carcasses, other dead...
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Fisher Family: 2017 Land Report 100 sponsored by LandLeader
No. 26 Fisher Family 440,000 acres Gap cofounders Donald and Doris Fisher own Mendocino Redwood Company and Pacific Lumber, now known as Humboldt Redwood. In 2017, the Fishers funded the Redwood...
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Land Report May 2018 Newsletter
A round of applause for the 2017 Deals of the Year: Colorado’s Cielo Vista Ranch, 2017 Ranchland Deal of the Year; South Carolina’s St. Phillips Island, 2017 Conservation Deal of the Year; California...
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Land Report 2017 Deal of the Year: The Dangermond Preserve
Site of one of the first lighthouses in California, the headland of Point Conception marks the junction of Northern and Southern California. A $165 million gift, the largest in Nature Conservancy...
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The Land Report Top Ten: Spring 2018
The nation’s leading land listings feature an average price tag of $155 million. — The Editors 1. Molokai Ranch (Hawaii): $260 million Pictured above, this 55,574-acre ranch ranks as one of the Aloha...
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Collins Family: 2017 Land Report 100 sponsored by LandLeader
No. 33 Collins Family 311,400 acres Founded in Pennsylvania in 1855 by a 24-year-old railroad engineer named Truman “T.D.” Collins, the family enterprise now includes forestland in the Northeast and...
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Land Report 2017 Agriculture Deal of the Year: Central Valley Farmland
The nation’s largest publicly traded farmland real estate investment trust stayed true to its business model with a nine-figure acquisition in 2017. Denver-based Farmland Partners (FPI) paid...
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Land Report July 2018 Newsletter
The robust US economy means plenty of transactions to report in our July newsletter, including: Colorado’s Grizzly Ranch sells for $18.5 million Red Lodge Creek Estate goes to auction on August 30 A...
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Preservation Tax Breaks Questioned
A Napa County grand jury has questioned millions of dollars in tax breaks that were doled out to preserve wine country farmland with little chance of being developed. Passed in 1965, California’s...
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For Sale: 157-Acre Parcel in Beverly Hills Lists for $1 Billion
157 acres of California development land to list for $1 billion? The New York Times reports that a 157-acre parcel in the Beverly Hills 90210 ZIP code will soon come to market for $1 billion ($6.3...
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Land Report September 2018 Newsletter
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates paid $171 million in August to acquire 14,500 acres of farmland owned by John Hancock Life Insurance Company in one of the most coveted agricultural regions of...
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Monsanto Seeks to Have $289 Million Verdict Thrown Out
In September, the company asked to have the landmark verdict set aside (or the award reduced) in the case brought by California school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson. Johnson alleged that the...
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Land Report October 2018 Newsletter
Tom Brokaw’s West Boulder Ranch and the Old Steen Place, an adjacent portion of the Burnt Leather Ranch, were sold to a single buyer by Fay Ranches on September 28. The combination of the two Montana...
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Supreme Court Declines Coastal Act Case
A decade-long legal battle by Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla over private property rights versus public coastal access ended this month when the Supreme Court declined to hear the case,...
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The Land Report Top Ten: Summer 2018
Crowned by a stately manor house and featuring its own equestrian center, Great Island joins the list. — The Editors 1. Molokai Ranch (Hawaii): $260 million This 55,574-acre ranch ranks as one of the...
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Land Report July 2018 Newsletter
The robust US economy means plenty of transactions to report in our July newsletter, including: Colorado’s Grizzly Ranch sells for $18.5 million Red Lodge Creek Estate goes to auction on August 30 A...
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Land Report 2017 Agriculture Deal of the Year: Central Valley Farmland
The nation’s largest publicly traded farmland real estate investment trust stayed true to its business model with a nine-figure acquisition in 2017. Denver-based Farmland Partners (FPI) paid...
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Preservation Tax Breaks Questioned
A Napa County grand jury has questioned millions of dollars in tax breaks that were doled out to preserve wine country farmland with little chance of being developed. Passed in 1965, California’s...
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For Sale: 157-Acre Parcel in Beverly Hills Lists for $1 Billion
157 acres of California development land to list for $1 billion? The New York Times reports that a 157-acre parcel in the Beverly Hills 90210 ZIP code will soon come to market for $1 billion ($6.3...
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Land Report September 2018 Newsletter
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates paid $171 million in August to acquire 14,500 acres of farmland owned by John Hancock Life Insurance Company in one of the most coveted agricultural regions of...
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