Every closing here had me on one side of it, from 2006 — where this record begins — to today. It is a floor rather than a ceiling: I was selling before this record starts, and not every closing since left a database entry behind. Land is most of it. The rest is country homes, estates and commercial ground — often the same job, because a farm with a house on it is both.
The land half of it also answers a question no website can: what land has actually sold for here, by tract size and by period, taken from these closings rather than from an estimate.
The work itself
A few of them, up close
Previous sales, and what each of them actually took. The last one was not a sale at all.
2,200 acresDrane RanchCorsicana, Navarro CountyA multi-generation family ranch on the west side of Corsicana, assembled from the heirs and conveyed as one property.May 2006 · Listing side
604 acresLumpkinBuyer side, on raw farmland. NRCS farmland-classification and range-production maps run across all 604 acres before the offer, and the seller's minerals conveyed at closing. The buyers built a wedding venue on it.Jul 2008 · Buyer side
546.75 acres855 N FM 55 RoadHighland – Silver CityHeld by one family for more than 120 years. I had both of the estate's tracts and treated them differently on purpose — a written pro forma compared selling each whole against subdividing it. This one sold entire at 546 acres. The second was surveyed, platted, given its own restrictions and water and electric easements, and sold off tract by tract.May 2019 · Listing side
443.76 acresFM 709 RoadDavid Laughlin Surv Abs 475Not one ranch but two neighbors' tracts, 343 acres and 100, assembled and marketed as a single 443-acre place. Two contracts written to close simultaneously — or neither closed. Price set per acre and adjusted to a new survey, and the buyer took it as a 1031 exchange.Feb 2008 · Listing side
320.69 acresState Highway 22J ClarkSep 2013 · Listing side
244 acresNoah Byars SurveyNavarro CountyA single tract carried by the seller rather than a bank — the deed and the deed of trust back to her were signed the same day, and her own farm-credit lien had to be released before it could close.Jan 2010 · Listing side
175.95 acresFM 55Elizabeth Scott Survey, ABST 722No current survey — the acreage rested on field notes from 2001. Worked from those with aerials, a floodplain overlay, tax records and two rounds of comps, with a written seller net sheet in hand before the offer was answered.Oct 2024 · Listing side
152.68 acresNW County Road 4010E Patterson AbstractSold in two pieces across one year, after an earlier contract terminated and the land went back to market. A quitclaim deed and an affidavit of use and possession had to be recorded to clear the chain before the first piece could close.Dec 2022 · Listing side
60.2 acres2700 Keller Haslet RoadNS Creed Survey, A1898Three contiguous parcels of heavy-industrial ground inside the Alliance overlay, twelve acres of it in floodplain. Sold on a commercial purchase agreement rather than a TREC form, through a wetland delineation, a zoning and subdivision review, an existing oil and gas lease, a title objection letter and an assignment of the contract before closing.Aug 2020 · Listing side
30 acres1302 FM 55S Finch AbstractThe home place of a farm that would not sell whole at 95 acres. The equipment and livestock went to auction, the land was modeled three ways and divided into parcels people could actually afford, and the house was carved out onto 30 acres with a new survey, a new legal description and restrictions written for it. Three amendments to get it closed.May 2024 · Listing side
Sugar Hollow RetreatCarter County, TennesseeThe buyer engaged me as his consultant. A coast-to-coast search that ran a year, then the due diligence and the acquisition — and three weeks on site around the closing to hand the place over cleanly.2017–2019 · Consulting engagement
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Acreage, road frontage, water, ag exemption, minerals — tell me what you have and I will tell you what it is worth, from closings near it.
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