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What actually decides what a piece of Texas land is worth (and what to put on the form)

Acreage is the least interesting number on a land parcel. Access, water, what's under it and what's allowed on it decide the price. Here are the questions a buyer answers before calling you, and how to answer them first.

Updated October 2026

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The eight questions

  1. Legal access. Public road frontage, a recorded easement, or neither.
  2. Water. A well, a water line at the road, a groundwater district, surface water, or nothing.
  3. Utilities. Electric at the property line or not; sewer or septic feasibility.
  4. Flood zone. From the FEMA map.
  5. Minerals and easements. Severed or not; pipelines, lease roads, powerlines.
  6. Exemptions. Ag, timber or wildlife appraisal, and any lease that keeps it.
  7. Restrictions. Deed restrictions, HOA, city ETJ, zoning if inside a city.
  8. Location. Distance to a growing town, a lake, a highway, a plant.

What doesn't change the offer

Brush, an old mobile home, a collapsed barn, a fence that needs replacing, trash. The buyer prices the clean-up and does it after closing.

What to send

County and property ID from the appraisal district, approximate acres, how you get to it, and anything from the list above you know. Three sentences is enough; the buyer verifies the rest.

Questions people ask

Should I get a survey before selling?

Not for a direct sale. If the buyer needs one, they order it.

Should I clear the brush first?

No. It rarely changes the offer by more than it costs.

Does an old house or mobile home on the land matter?

Say it's there. It's usually priced as part of the land, sometimes as a cost.

Related

Get a written, no-obligation offer on your land within days

You get a call within 24 hours, usually the same day. One Texas land buyer checks the parcel and gives you a written offer with a closing date. No survey, no clean-up, no commission, no fee to you, and no list of companies calling. Buyers in this network typically pay the closing costs; the written offer spells out exactly what they cover.

  • 1. Tell us the county, the kind of land and the situation. Two minutes.
  • 2. You get a call within 24 hours. Your request goes to one Texas land buyer, not to a list.
  • 3. They check the parcel and put the offer in writing. Take it, or take it to a land broker and compare.

A cash as-is offer is below full market value. We say that up front because the buyer will too.

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