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Twelve Reasons to Buy Land Now – Reason Number 2
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
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Have Your Cake and Eat it Too
Since 2008, in order to revive the American and world economy, the Federal Reserve (the Fed) has undertaken a variety of actions:
They dropped interest rates from the more historically typical 6% per annum down to 0.25% p… Continue Reading Twelve Reasons to Buy Land Now – Reason Number 2
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Twelve Reasons to Buy Land Now – Reason Number 1
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
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The Economic Significance of Land
The first reason is to understand the historical economic significance of land. Simply put, land is the source of all wealth and the greatest store of wealth in the world.
Every product that we Americans, along with every person in the world… Continue Reading Twelve Reasons to Buy Land Now – Reason Number 1
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Twelve Reasons to Buy Land Now – Introduction
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
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Grant Massie Land Company has identified 12 reasons why this is the right time to buy good tracts of land. In the American economy, there is normally $2Trillion (Tn) worth of cash sitting on the sidelines of the financial markets in money market accounts, etc. Today, there is approximately $9Tn … Continue Reading Twelve Reasons to Buy Land Now – Introduction
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Forces Impacting the American Economy – Part 7
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
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Having now reviewed what we believe are the six strongest forces impacting the American economy, it seems to us that we owe you our economic forecast for 2012. Obviously, it is worth every cent you are paying for it and since you are paying nothing for it, that may well mean my forecast is worthle… Continue Reading Forces Impacting the American Economy – Part 7
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Forces Impacting the American Economy – Part 6
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
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We have been reviewing the three strongest negative and three strongest positive forces impacting the American economy. After looking at the three strongest negative forces, we have previously looked at two of the strongest positive forces. Now we will examine the third positive force:
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Forces Impacting the American Economy – Part 5
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
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We started this series reviewing the three strongest negative and three strongest positive forces impacting the American economy. After looking at what we believe are the three most negative forces, we are now looking at the three most positive forces. Of the positive, force number 2 is:
… Continue Reading Forces Impacting the American Economy – Part 5
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Forces Impacting the American Economy – Part 4
Friday, February 17th, 2012
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In this series we are looking at the six strongest forces, three negative and three positive, which are impacting the American economy. Having examined the three most negative forces, here is the first of the positive forces:
On Shoring – Tsunamis in Japan and … Continue Reading Forces Impacting the American Economy – Part 4
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Forces Impacting the American Economy – Part 3
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
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Continuing our series on the six strongest forces impacting the American Economy, we need to pay special attention to one major negative force… China.
China – Like all command economies, China’s will ultimately fail. Too many distortions will build up over time because of the… Continue Reading Forces Impacting the American Economy – Part 3
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Forces Impacting the American Economy – Part 2
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
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From our perspective there are six strong forces, three negative and three positive, that in combination predict the American economy in 2012. In this series we are looking at each of the forces individually, both negative and positive. Here is negative force number 2:
Negative Force … Continue Reading Forces Impacting the American Economy – Part 2
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Forces Impacting the American Economy – Part 1
Friday, January 27th, 2012
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From our perspective there are six really strong forces, three negative and three positive, that in combination predict the American economy in 2012. In this series, we will look at each of the forces individually, both negative and positive.
Ne… Continue Reading Forces Impacting the American Economy – Part 1
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Land will be THE BEST Investment for the Next 40 Years – Part 3
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
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As we discussed in the previous articles, in 1964 my father bought 80 acres in the country for approximately $65 per acre. At the time he was convinced that he had made a bad decision.
47 years later, after the value declines experienced in the Great Recession, that 80 acre tract of land is wor… Continue Reading Land will be THE BEST Investment for the Next 40 Years – Part 3
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Land will be THE BEST Investment for the Next 40 Years – Part 2
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
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Recently, I had the occasion to go through some records accumulated by my father. In his financial records I found a file on his purchase of some land adjacent to his farm. Reading those documents brought back a specific memory.
One evening in December 1964 my father, having been unusually qu… Continue Reading Land will be THE BEST Investment for the Next 40 Years – Part 2
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Land will be THE BEST Investment for the Next 40 Years – Part 1
Friday, January 6th, 2012
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In an uncertain world it is easy to become confused by the cross currents in the current global economy. The easiest illustration of that fact is the stock market in 2011.
In 2011 the best one word description for the stock market is volatility. We saw huge ups followed by severe downs and at… Continue Reading Land will be THE BEST Investment for the Next 40 Years – Part 1
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Roller Coaster Economy
Friday, December 30th, 2011
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The last several years have seen more ups and downs in the economy than the best roller coaster ride at any theme park in the United States. The fact is that if you are being buffeted by those trends, there is a long line of folks who feel the same way. Economic whiplash seems to be a universal … Continue Reading Roller Coaster Economy
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Is This a Surge or the Beginning of a Recovery?
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
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That is the question we are asking ourselves today.
In some ways the land market today feels like the land market the second half of 2010. Starting in June of 2010 all the way through January 2011, the land market was active.
Mistakenly, we thought a year ago that the activity we were experi… Continue Reading Is This a Surge or the Beginning of a Recovery?
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Investing in an Uncertain World – Solutions
Monday, November 7th, 2011
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Solving the crisis in the housing industry will require acknowledging past mistakes and undoing them. Nothing will happen as fast as I would like to see it unfold, but here are the steps I would recommend if I were asked.
Fix Fannie Mae – The simple and best answer is … Continue Reading Investing in an Uncertain World – Solutions
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Investing in an Uncertain World – Eat Gold
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
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One of my favorite books is “Manias, Panics and Crashes” by Dr. Kindelberger. Yes, I am an odd duck in that I enjoy reading and thinking about economics. But this book provides a superb perspective into several facets of our current economic environment.
One of those is a framework to decide … Continue Reading Investing in an Uncertain World – Eat Gold
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Investing in an Uncertain World – Destroying American Banks
Friday, October 14th, 2011
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If you wanted to cause significant damage to a capitalistic society or even destroy it, the target has to be the banking system. Capitalism only thrives when banks are able to lend money, a critical form of capital, to entrepreneurs and businesses.
To clearly see the impact, study the economy o… Continue Reading Investing in an Uncertain World – Destroying American Banks
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Investing in an Uncertain World – Destroying the American Housing Industry
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
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The new housing industry is approximately 27% of the American economy. It is impossible to have a strong economy in the USA without the participation of the new housing industry.
New housing is not just single family homes. It also includes multifamily housing. In fact, when the housing sta… Continue Reading Investing in an Uncertain World – Destroying the American Housing Industry
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Investing in an Uncertain World – Stagflation is Ugly
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
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The “Perfect Storm” that we are experiencing is the result of a combination of bad political decisions. Previously we reviewed the trigger of this Perfect Storm, the Asian financial crisis of 1997 – 1998.
In the Clinton Administration, the decision was made to change our tax code to encourage I… Continue Reading Investing in an Uncertain World – Stagflation is Ugly
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Investing in an Uncertain World – Devaluation Feels Good… Initially
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
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Our perspective is that we are experiencing a perfect storm caused by the combination of several missteps that occurred in 1996-2000. Here we can only look at one but will address the others in future articles.
One of the major forces and the genesis of the current economic crisis occurred in 1… Continue Reading Investing in an Uncertain World – Devaluation Feels Good… Initially
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Investing in an Uncertain World – The Measurement of Fear
Friday, September 9th, 2011
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Turmoil in Africa and the Middle East easily confirms that the world in which we live is amazingly unstable. All Americans are tired of our country being the world’s sheriff, but now we see that in the absence of a sheriff … chaos rules.
If someone had told me 10 years ago that in 2011 we would… Continue Reading Investing in an Uncertain World – The Measurement of Fear
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Land Investment vs. Stocks
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
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After seeing the free-fall in the stock market over the last several weeks, many people are wondering where the safest place to invest their money is. Many pension funds and other investment groups have become heavily invested in land to offset the wild fluctuations in their stock portfolios.
F… Continue Reading Land Investment vs. Stocks
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How a 1031 Exchange Can Increase the Return on the Sale and Purchase of Investment Property
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
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Most people have heard the term “1031 Exchange” mentioned, but many are unclear on how they can benefit from it. Some think that it is only used by multi-million dollar investors. Others think that you can only exchange a tract of land for a tract of land or an office building for an office buil… Continue Reading How a 1031 Exchange Can Increase the Return on the Sale and Purchase of Investment Property
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Buyers Set Values – Not Sellers
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
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Property Is Only Worth What Someone Is Willing To Pay
From an appraiser’s standpoint, value expresses an economic concept. Appraisals are never a fact, but always an opinion of worth of a property at a given time in ac… Continue Reading Buyers Set Values – Not SellersCategory: Bill Grant, Market Perspective
Tags: land, land appraisal, land for sale in virginia, land value, market value of land, timber land
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Why Invest In Timberland?
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
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“Money still grows on trees” as a past article (“For Some, Sound of Profit Is Timber”) in the Wall Street Journal has mentioned. As a long-term investment, timberland has outperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index. Pension funds, insurance companies and investment trusts a… Continue Reading Why Invest In Timberland?
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What Is A Timber Cruise?
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
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For new and existing timberland owners, a timber cruise is a rather inexpensive first step in determining the current volume of merchantable timber on your property and its market value. A timber cruise is normally completed by a consulting forester prior to the timber being sold; however, it is a… Continue Reading What Is A Timber Cruise?
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Tags: farm, land, land for sale in virginia, timber, timber for sale, virginia
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What is the Value of My Property in Today’s World?
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
Author: Bill Grant | 1 Comment
In these turbulent economic times, many of us are wondering what our property is worth or is it saleable at all. As my partner, Ned Massie, has often said – “If you offer it for a dollar, someone will buy it; but if you offer it for $5 million there may not be many buyers depending on what the p… Continue Reading What is the Value of My Property in Today’s World?
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An Economy With A Split Personality
Thursday, October 21st, 2010
Author: Ned Massie | No Comments
Almost every small business owner that I know that is still in business is operating on fumes. That is especially true of folks associated with real estate.
But the stock market is doing “very nicely, thank you”. The talking heads chat about record earnings, international growth, … Continue Reading An Economy With A Split Personality
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4 Million Plus Per Year
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
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In the media there is a great deal of discussion by various talking heads trying to compare Japan in the 1990′s and the United States in 2010. A variety of economists as well as reporters have expressed their opinions on this topic.
Listening to all these people, it is very easy to become confus… Continue Reading 4 Million Plus Per Year
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An Illiquid Market Has Benefits
Friday, September 10th, 2010
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In our analysis dated in November of 2009 called “RE/Set RE/Position RE/Start”, which is available for download on our website, we outlined the four stages of the real estate cycle. For those who have not read the report, the first stage is the Boom, followed by a Decline, followed by an Illiquid M… Continue Reading An Illiquid Market Has Benefits
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