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Real Estate News & Resources
Explore educational news, tips, and insights for real estate professionals in LandApp's resource center.
How to Find Off-Market Land Deals
Finding off-market real estate properties requires a proactive approach. It’s a repeatable, data-driven process: identify parcels that meet your criteria, find who owns them, and make contact before a listing ever exists. Here’s how to do it.
Craig Kaiser
6 days ago7 min read
El Niño 2026: Why Flood and Wildfire Risks are Increasing
El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a recurring climate pattern driven by warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific.
Craig Kaiser
Jul 25 min read
How to Use AI to Automate Property Research: A LandApp Workflow
Researching properties is fast and easy with LandApp's free Property Reports, and you can take it a step further by plugging the Property Report into AI. Here's a quick 5-step process for conducting due diligence for real estate investments.
Craig Kaiser
Jun 187 min read
Land Measurement: How to Read Legal Descriptions, Township & Range, and Survey Coordinates
A legal description is the official written description used to identify a specific parcel of real property in deeds, titles, mortgages, and other legal documents.
Craig Kaiser
Jun 165 min read
What Is a Land Deed Restriction and How Does It Affect Your Property?
For landowners, understanding what deed restrictions are, how they work, and how they can affect your property's value and future use isn't just legal trivia.
Craig Kaiser
Jun 105 min read
The Complete Guide to Land Site Assessment
Whether you're purchasing raw acreage, developing a parcel, or simply trying to understand what your land is worth and why, a thorough land site assessment is the foundation of every smart real estate decision.
Craig Kaiser
Jun 36 min read
Top 5 States with the Highest Wildfire Risk
The states most prone to wildfires are California, Oregon, Colorado, Texas, and Arizona. These states share several characteristics that increase wildfire risk, including vast areas of flammable vegetation, dry climates, and frequent high winds.
Craig Kaiser
Jun 15 min read
Which US States are Most Prone to Natural Disasters?
The two US states that are most prone to natural disasters are Texas and California. However, the true answer depends on which types of natural disasters are being measured.
Craig Kaiser
May 207 min read
From Near-Selloff to Debt-Free: The Solar Lease That Saved a Wyoming Ranch
At the time, LandApp (LandGate at the time) was known primarily as a mineral rights marketplace- a place for landowners and operators to connect around oil and gas opportunities. But the platform had just expanded.
Craig Kaiser
May 184 min read
How to Get an Easement and Access Landlocked Land
Landlocked property is a common challenge for rural landowners and buyers. It occurs when a parcel is surrounded entirely by private land owned by others, with no direct access to a public road.
Craig Kaiser
May 116 min read
What is Highest and Best Use in Real Estate?
Highest and best use refers to the most valuable and profitable way a property can be used based on its physical characteristics, zoning regulations, market demand, and financial potential.
Craig Kaiser
May 75 min read
The History of the Power Grid in the United States
The history of the U.S. power grid can be traced back to the early days of electricity when pioneers like Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla laid the foundation for what would become one of the greatest engineering feats in history.
Craig Kaiser
May 37 min read
Best States for Homesteading
You can homestead anywhere, but not all states or climates offer the same level of support for a self-reliant, sustainable lifestyle. The best states for homesteading are Tennessee, Idaho, Missouri, Texas, and Oklahoma.
Craig Kaiser
May 17 min read
Wetlands vs. Floodplains: What’s the Difference?
Floodplains and wetlands often overlap, but they are not the same. Understanding the difference can affect everything from how you use a property to whether you need flood insurance.
Craig Kaiser
May 14 min read
How Much Do Data Centers Pay For Land?
The valuation of land for data centers has decoupled from traditional real estate metrics. We are currently witnessing a "perfect storm" of demand that is driving premium prices.
Craig Kaiser
Apr 297 min read
Why Should Realtors Import their Listings to LandApp’s Marketplace?
A growing wave of energy development, infrastructure expansion, and capital investment has created an entirely new class of land buyer- one that most traditional listing platforms weren't built to serve.
Craig Kaiser
Apr 296 min read
How Does Seller Financing Work?
In a traditional real estate transaction, the buyer gets a loan from a bank, the bank pays the seller in full, and the buyer pays the bank back over time. With seller financing, you cut out the middleman.
Craig Kaiser
Apr 238 min read
How to Find Your Dream Property with Acreage
Discover how to find your dream property with acreage. Be sure to consider more than just square footage- evaluate your budget, what you want to use the land for, and your ideal location. Find dream properties for sale o LandApp's marketplace!
Craig Kaiser
Apr 135 min read
Who Owns America? The Largest Landowners in Every State
Across the United States, land ownership is as diverse as the landscapes themselves. While the federal government is by far the largest landowner in the United States, the story of private landownership is just as fascinating.
Craig Kaiser
Apr 27 min read
How to Find the Best Markets for Land Investing
Land investing is fundamentally a local game. The same parcel in two different counties can have a wildly different value, buyer pool, and time-to-close, all because of the surrounding market conditions.
Craig Kaiser
Mar 317 min read
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