When Is an Environmental Site Assessment Needed?
When purchasing or developing land, an Environmental Site Assessment or ESA is often a necessary process that acts as an insurance policy to prospective buyers. [...]
Can You Build a House on Agricultural Land?
What is Agricultural Land? Agricultural land typically allows for raising livestock and growing and harvesting crops. In many cases, agricultural land allows for typical residential [...]
Zoning Issues: Can Zoning Improve The Housing Affordability?
Zoning describes the use of municipal authority to decided what land can be used for, and it defines allowable uses for residential, commercial, and industrial [...]
How Zoning Laws Can Help Reduce Pollution
There are many ways zoning laws can help reduce pollution, improve the public’s overall quality of life, and prevent a negative environmental impact. Zoning laws [...]
What Type of Structures Can You Build on Agricultural Land?
What is Agricultural Zoning? Also called agricultural preservation zoning, agricultural zoning is a land management tool used to encourage farming and discourage any non-agricultural uses [...]
What You Need To Know Before Making An Offer To Purchase Land
There are 1.9 billion acres of currently owned and available land in the contiguous United States. Trying to place a dollar amount on the value [...]
Everything You Need To Know About Topographic Surveys
A map formulates meaning between disparate distances just as much as they chart those distances. Do you ever think about how much maps control how [...]
2021 ALTA/NSPS Standards Guide
The time has come for the new revised 2021 ALTA/NSPS standards to soon go into effect. These standards were last updated in 2016, so you [...]
Everything About Zoning Variance and Change
Zoning laws and ordinances can be a frustrating topic for anyone working in the real estate field. Zoning is intended to give property owners consistency [...]
What Are the Different Types of Land Zoning?
Before purchasing a property, it’s important to know how it is zoned so you know if you can use the property for your intended purposes [...]