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...The Laramie Plains Ranch, for example, recently on the market for $18.6mn, “consists of 25,764 deeded acres, 5,338 State of Wyoming lease acres, 8,251 BLM [Bureau of Land Management] lease acres and 14,856...
...Her home among a small cluster of houses in Missouri Heights, 28 miles north-east of Aspen, comes with eight acres of land and views over Mount Sopris....
...In Arizona’s Pima county, migrant arrivals have increased from about 18,000 in 2019 to nearly 200,000 this year....
...On the website Roofstock.com, you can shop for a $56,000 family home in St Louis, Missouri, as easily as ordering the latest John Grisham thriller on Amazon....
...Philip Booth: Growth will remain sluggish until there is a radical liberalisation of land-use planning regulation. Nick Bosanquet: No: growth 1 per cent or less: danger of recession high....
...For every 1 per cent increase in the soil’s carbon, an acre of land can hold an extra 25,000 gallons of water, helping productivity and plant health, notes Hovsepian, adding: “Connecting those pieces, that...
...He uses 20 acres of his 240-acre holding to grow 20,000 or so yuccas, almost entirely the rostrata variety — its leaves, he says, are softer and less knifelike, making them better suited to domestic gardens...
...One tract in the latest federal lease sale in New Mexico notched up a whopping $68,000 an acre — when a high bid in the state (where much of the drilling land is federally-held) rarely exceeds $10,000 an...
...The Bentley has yielded more than $500mn in sales — or about 40 per cent of the inventory — in less than a year and before a single shovel has scraped the earth....
...In the two years to February, the number of property sales in the county for above £1mn more than doubled, according to data from estate agents Savills based on Land Registry figures....
...As frustration swells among residents about the state of their home or the charges they pay, a number have escalated their concerns beyond the Peabody complaints system to join residents’ associations, lobby...
...She and Charles do have a bit more leeway on their private assets....
...It was during this spell that Heseltine, as environment secretary, established his reputation as a bold champion of the active state — or “levelling up”, as the current Tory government would call it....
...“It falls between the three or four-bedroom more modern house for £700,000-£800,000 that is not big enough for some, and the four to five-bedroom period house on an acre or two for £1.5mn-£2mn,” Rix says...
...In another, the World Wide Fund for Nature joined it in a $6mn initiative two years ago to restore 1mn acres of grazing land in the Great Plains....
...For one thing, the Republic can now make a more attractive offer to its cousins in the north. It is less threatening....
...In the mid-century, two civic-minded families of Hampstead Unitarians, the Fields and the Sharpes, promoted the heath in more practical ways. They were less Nimby-ish than the copyholders....
...“From an investment point of view, it would have been more sensible to keep the house in Oxford,” says Woodling, looking out over the farmhouse’s 11 acres, frequented by wild boar and deer....
...(A Broad and Ample Road) ICYMI Land-grab universities This investigative story traced 11m acres of land in the US that were taken from tribal nations and sold to build up endowments at 52 American colleges...
...For some, historic fires in northern California burning 1.2m acres of land have put a stop to the would-be exodus....
...“Why do these people take on more risk and are willing to take less money?” asks Litan....
...$2m An older home with two acres of vineyards in Sonoma County $10m A modern home in the upper valley with a pool and 3-4 acres of vineyards $15m A new house with guest house, pool and about five acres...
...As the land they acquired and have worked to conserve has returned to public ownership, she’s been spending more time on the ranch in California’s Ventura County where she grew up....
...Madonna’s purchase of Ashcombe House in Wiltshire in 2001, a Georgian house set in more than 1,000 acres, was a throwback to the days of pop grandeur....
...We have 200,000 acres of land, a lot of it in reasonably remote areas. We have a capability to deliver large-scale projects,” he says....
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