Purchasing Land

Short guide for landowners that explains the advantages of bargain sales and offers information about tax benefits and documentation.

Guide outlines various conservation options for landowners, including conservation easements, donating land, and more.

Acquisitions of land and easements for conservation purposes can involve issues different from other real estate transactions. This guide looks at purchase and sale agreements in general and then reviews potential customizations that may be made to these agreements to specifically address conservation matters. [Print version of ConservationTools.org guide]

A purchase option is a right to purchase or lease land or other property interests without any obligation to do so.