A land auction is the process of buying or selling parcels of land, property by offering them up for a bid. The highest bidder, so to speak. With auctionacres.com there is no need to attend a heavily crowded auction hall; our land auctions are done from the comfort and privacy of your own home and on your own time. There are few companies who make it so simple and our site is designed to be user friendly. In this day and age few things will make for a better investment than real estate, if any and if you are like so many hard working folks out there, you can’t afford to plunk down hundreds of thousands of dollars on homes to rent or “flip”. There are other options for you. Our parcels for land auction are tremendous opportunities for a new investor to begin building their real estate portfolio for many reasons. There are parcels included in auctionacres land auctions that have seen excellent growth in economy and population as well as being affordable. There are three main reasons buying land is such a great investment.First off, the law of supply and demand plays a big part. The less of something there is the more demand there is for it. With the population rising by more than 11% every year, it is no wonder the need for more land is at an all time high. This need will never disappear as the masses grow in leaps and bounds.

The second important reason is leverage. With this you can pay a down payment for a property that will no doubt increase in value. With some land auction parcels you may pay five hundred dollars down for a property that is worth more than ten thousand. A bank or loan institution is more apt to loan money for a property that will increase in value versus something that has only minimal chances to do so.

The third and most important reason for land investment is that with so much market volatility home and land will not decrease in value. At auctionacres.com we give our customers a great chance to positively increase an investment portfolio by offering incredible wholesale land auction prices. With that opportunity our customers can buy low and sell high! Let us assist you with your purchase through one of our land auctions. Find the property land auction you are interested in and start your investment ball rolling at auctionacres.com today.

They aren’t making any more land. It’s a simple rule of supply and demand. Property prices continue to increase as more people become aware of the value of land as an investment. If you are tired of overcrowded city living maybe it is time to get a few acres to call your own. Here are just a few quotes about the value of land as an investment and as peace of mind.”Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.”
- Andrew Carnegie

“The major fortunes in America have been made in land.”
- John D. Rockefeller

“I would give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.”
- Shakespeare

“The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.”
- Thomas Jefferson

“He is not a full man who does not own a piece of land.”
- Hebrew Proverb

“A man complained that [on] his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor’s. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best investment on earth is earth.”
- Louis Glickman

“It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.”
- Anthony Trollope

“My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.”
- Gladys Taber

“There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.”
- Harriet Martineau

Britain’s exploration into the New World began in 1585 with the expedition of Sir Walter Raleigh. Over a period of 200 years from that early settlement, the British left us many land records in the colonies which eventually became our early states. In the early years, the British granted charters to large land companies, which were essentially comprised of wealthy land speculators who resided in England. These land companies had the authority to issue land grants to those individuals who were loyal to the crown. The crown ultimately controlled all of the lands in these huge charters, with the land companies acting as agents of the crown. Some of the more famous of these land companies were the London Company, Massachusetts Bay Company, Plymouth Company, Virginia Company and others.What types of records are available from this early British period? Probably the most valuable for the genealogist are crown grants and proprietor records. A proprietorship was responsible for the granting of lands from the charter, as agent for the charter (and therefore, for the crown). When these disbursements of land were made, the land itself was laid out in descriptive form in much the same way as later deeds, with landmarks and other prominent identifying data. Many of these records survive in one form or another, whether they be patents, surveys, warrants, or in some other form, and have been microfilmed and are available from various resource centers.

In the Revolutionary War, the United States confiscated lands belonging to those that were felt to be loyal to the British government. The British government tried to compensate the loyalists for their losses, and, in 1783, the British established the American Claims Commission to administer the claims.

Moving now to Spain, we know that it was the first foreign nation to claim land ownership in the North American continent. By the late 1600’s, Spain laid claim to much of what would become the central and southwestern United States, as well as parts of Texas, New Mexico, California and Florida.

Beginning in 1763, Spain began keeping careful records of its land transactions, with several copies made of each document, one of which was sent to the Spanish archives in Seville.

The French held a large amount of territory in North America, which underwent a series of transfers between foreign governments over the years, but we are familiar with it as “The Louisiana Purchase”. The Superior Council Records are the primary source of information on the French land granting practices. This collection holds everything from mortgages to marriage contracts, civil and land suits, and other valuable information. The coverage of these records is restricted primarily to the areas that we know today as Louisiana.

Mexico, by 1821, claimed lands in the present states of Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, California and Utah. The Mexicans, especially in Texas, were prolific in granting lands, often in the form of a rancho, which was a grant over 1000 acres. They also used the headright system in Texas and in California. In Texas, references are made to empressario grants, which were large tracts given to land speculators to colonize entire towns.

This brings us to the point in time at which the United States came into existence. In the early days of the United States, the Government gave out Federal Patents to settlers who wanted to homestead a plot of earth. All land records in the United States now begin with the Patents which were given to the first land owners. It is possible to trace the ownership of any parcel of real estate all the way back to the time when the Government owned it. These land records are the basis for property ownership in the United States.

This page is simply a list of different sizes and distances which are commonly used in real estate.

• One acre = 43,560 square feet, or 4,840 square yards
• One acre = 4,033 m2
• One mile = 5,280 feet
• One square mile = 640 acres
• One section = one square mile
• One township contains 36 sections
• One hectare (for those on the metric system) = 10,000 meters squared (2.47 acres)

How to determine the number of acres if you know the dimensions of a rectangular property:

Whenever we sell a parcel of land, we will always tell you how many acres you’re buying. But sometimes our buyers want to figure it out on their own. Here’s how you can do it. Let’s say you’re buying a rectangular property which is 330′ on two sides and 660′ on the two long sides. You would multiply the lengh times the width, and then divide that number by 43,560 (the number of square feet in an acre). Let’s try it…

330 feet x 660 feet = 217,800 square feet
217,800 square feet divided by 43,560 = 5
So, your 330′x 660′ property is 5 acres.