Land Values Blogs

Land Auction Results - October 2023

 November 8, 2023
 Industry Insights   Land Values   Land Auctions 
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The appraisal team at Peoples Company was able to track 57 tracts or 5,552 acres sold at public auction in Iowa during October 2023. The average dollar per acre was $12,456, the average dollar per tillable acre was $13,820, and the average dollar per CSR2 was $171.

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2023 National Land Values Webinar

 October 17, 2023
 Land Values   Industry Insights 
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Peoples Company unveils the 2023 National Land Values report featuring data-driven research on current farmland values across the nation, trends that may impact future values, and practical stories from around the country. This exclusive webinar explores the impact of renewable energy, foreign ownership, inflation, higher interest rates, and continued geo-political pressures on farmland values.

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How Do Partial Interests Impact Value?

 October 17, 2023
 Land Values   Agriculture 
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My brother and I own land that has been in our direct family lineage for 150 years, and I am proud of this legacy. There is a general admiration for farm operations that have been in a family for several generations. However, there can be surprises in the event of a death or marriage dissolution that a family may be unaware of when there are multiple owners with varying fractions of ownership, resulting in minority ownership.

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Smart Money vs. Scared Money: Reconsidering Farmland in Today's Market

 October 10, 2023
 Land Values   Real Estate 
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Throughout my 20-year career at Peoples Company, I have been involved in billions of dollars of real estate transactions and have witnessed firsthand the financial performance of U.S. farmland through numerous economic shocks including the great financial crisis, Ben Bernanke’s quantitative easing experiment, Trump’s trade wars, the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and now the nation’s battle with persistent inflation. On a pure return basis, farmland has outperformed most traditional equity and fixed income strategies, and has done so with incredibly low volatility compared to other asset classes over that time period.

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Iowa Land Values Update - 2023 Quarter 3

 October 5, 2023
 Land Values 
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Weekly Auction Results: 9/10/23-9/16/23

 September 18, 2023
 Land Values 
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Weekly Auction Results: 9/3/23-9/9/23

 September 11, 2023
 Land Values 
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Land Auction Results - August 2023

 September 5, 2023
 Land Values 
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Weekly Auction Results: 8/27/23-9/2/23

 September 5, 2023
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Weekly Auction Results: 8/20/23-8/26/23

 August 28, 2023
 Land Values 
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