LandSalesList.com exists to help people discover and research opportunities to buy land online.
The goal? 🔎 Find and include every website that offers land for sale, and provide help to would-be land owners.
I decided to focus on land because, as a lover of the outdoors, I want to help preserve land for future generations and give everyday people that want to own land a place to get started.
84 years ago, Woodie Guthrie said "This land was made for you and me".
Over 100 years ago Mark Twain said “Buy land, they're not making it any more”.
Some things never change. Sure, volcanoes and earthquakes can create islands (Big Island Hawaii is getting bigger), but unless we're talking geological time-scales, or potentially sea-steading (unlikely anytime soon), the amount of land on Earth will always be the same.
Every year, less and less of the land on Earth remains preserved.
As of 2024, less than 13% of the land in the United States is protected and the average cost of land is around $4,170 per acre.
The good news is that many of the websites on LandSalesList.com offer land in the United States for even less than that per acre. I believe that if more individuals own large parcels of land for themselves and their families, it would be beneficial for long term land conservation.
Owning land is having access to a resource on which anything is possible.
2 Million Acres for the American Bison
For example, over the last few decades, Ted Turner is bringing back buffalo herds. As you may know, many years ago, due to overhunting on the great plains, American bison populations shrunk from 50 million down to under 1000.
After Ted Turner's success with CNN, he bought over 2 million acres of land in the U.S.
Having reintroduced tens of thousands of bison onto his protected pastures, Ted Turner has helped the American bison make a come-back.
I hope more people will do cool stuff like Ted Turner.
Personally, I have always wanted to get into the land business. At first, I tried to get into real estate... but I didn't get the job at the local firm after finishing school! Instead, I've spent my career working in tech, and learned to build software and websites.
I was lucky as a kid -- I had hundreds of acres of woods behind my family's house, and gained an appreciation for the value of land from an early age. The woman that owned the woods in which I spent many of my childhood summers always told my mom that us kids could play back there and explore. For me, the woods were never-ending, and enabled a type of freewheelin childhood fun beyond comparison to any playground, sporting event, or video game.
I got to grow up in a place where I could roam free through the woods with my friends. We would climb trees, build forts, go fishing, catch crawfish, see wildlife (deer, foxes, squirrels, racoons to name a few!), make forts, build a fire, and just play outside.
Having access to land gives you experiences unlike any other. Humans deserve to understand how it feels to develop a connection to the land. To me, attaining an appreciation for the land seems like one of those birth-right features of humans that was given to us by our ancestors.
There's a great song I've heard that captures this feeling of nostalgia.
"No video games and no satellite
All we had were friends, and they were outside, playin' outside
It was a different life
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time
It was a different world"
-- A Different World by Bucky Covington