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Situation

Landlocked land: selling a tract with no legal road access

A parcel you can only reach by crossing someone else's land is hard to list and hard to finance, which is why it usually sells to a cash buyer who understands easements.

Updated October 2026

Access on paper vs. access in practice

Many rural Texas tracts are reached by a ranch road the family has used for decades with the neighbour's permission. That is not the same as a recorded easement. When the neighbour sells, or dies, permission can end. A buyer, a lender and a title company all ask the same question: is there an easement in the deed records?

What can be done

What to put on the form

How you currently reach the land, who owns the land between you and the public road, and whether anything about access is written down. The buyer may already know the neighbour.

Questions people ask

Is landlocked land worthless?

No; it's discounted. Adjoining owners in particular often want it.

Will the buyer get the easement?

That's their problem after closing, and they price it in. You don't have to solve it to sell.

I've used the road for 30 years. Doesn't that count?

It may support a claim, but a claim is not an easement until a court or the neighbour makes it one. A real estate attorney can assess it.

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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