2020 Land Market Survey Shows Land the Only Commercial Asset with Positive Growth in 2020

 April 20, 2021 (Chicago) – The REALTORS® Land Institute (RLI) and National Association of REALTORS® Research Group have released the results of their latest Land Market Survey. The survey shows that while the COVID-19 pandemic battered the commercial real estate market in 2020, the land market held up to the pandemic’s severe blow, according to survey participants. A 3% increase in land sales contrasts starkly with a 40% drop in commercial sales transactions of properties or portfolios of at least $2.5 million

https://www.rliland.com/2020-land-market-survey/?utm_source=RLI%20Informz%20Email&utm_medium=RLI%20Email&utm_campaign=Informz%20Email

Controlled fires in Florida Everglades being set to eliminate ‘monster’ invasive plant

 

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. – Fire crews with the National Park Service have been igniting controlled fires in the Florida Everglades to control an invasive vine that’s been wreaking havoc on the native ecosystem.

The plant, called Lygodium Microphyllum - and also known as Old World Climbing Fern - is a stealthy and invasive plant that was likely introduced as decorative vegetation that made its way into the Everglades in 1999.

 

https://www.floridatrend.com/article/30888/thursdays-daily-pulse#more

 

The 'Music Is Going To Stop': The Homebuilder Land Grab Is A Crisis In The Making

The nation’s largest homebuilders are buying up undeveloped land at a frantic pace. With Americans clamoring for new single-family homes to purchase and rent, the short-term outlook for homebuilding has rarely been better.

But analysts are worried that as interest rates and mortgage rates rise, all those land purchases could create an economic pinch for homebuilders that overextended themselves.

https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/home/studiob-walker-dunlop-webcast-ivy-zelman-diana-olick-homebuilding-land-grab-107967

Florida Plant Nursery Businesses Grow During Stifling Pandemic

When Yazmin Almaraz and Nadia Mourad saw COVID coming just months after they opened their own plant business, they didn’t know what would happen. Now they’re regular vendors at local markets and will open their first permanent greenhouse nursery in March. 

As the pandemic shut some small businesses’ doors, it kept many plant nurseries not just open, but thriving. The industry’s typical slow winter season never came and sales continued to climb. 

https://www.wuft.org/news/2021/03/08/plant-nurseries-grow-in-stifling-pandemic/