Central Virginia Land For Sale

Here you will find 20 plus acre parcels for sale in the following 22 Central Virginia counties.

Click Any Link To View Central Virginia Land In:

                 Albemarle    Alleghany       Amelia          Amherst           Augusta          

                                                                                         Botetourt               

            Buckingham       Charlottesville       Clarke       Cumberland      Culpeper        

          Fauquier           Fluvanna           Goochland          Greene          Highland          

          Loudoun            Louisa                 Madison                 Nelson           Orange        

                                                                        Powhatan           Rockbridge           

Smart Investment Tip: Buy Land

 At a time when Wall Street offers disappointing returns, land conservation remains one of America’s smartest investments. It attracts jobs, enhances property values, and saves billions in government costs.

Communities that conserve land make an investment in future economic development.

Companies frequently relocate where their top talent wants to live, and that is most often in places of natural beauty.

When land is protected, the adjacent land often increases in value, with homes selling for 10-20 percent more than comparable homes without access to parks.

Frederick Law Olmsted first demonstrated this principle in the late 1800’s when he documented that Central Park caused $5.4 million in additional annual tax revenues, quickly repaying the $14 million cost of the park.

American consumers seem to have grasped this simple economic principle: A survey by the National Association of Homebuilders concluded that new homebuyers value trails and natural areas above any other amenity.

Saving land from development is often the best way to reduce government spending and avoid increases in property taxes.

Many jurisdictions believe that they will make money from the property taxes on new subdivisions, ignoring the true cost of schools, roads, police, water, and storm water management.

Studies show that it costs between $1.04 and $2 for every dollar of tax revenue to provide services to a typical subdivision.

So current taxpayers end up subsidizing outsiders who bring increased traffic, crowded schools, and the loss of the community’s individual culture.

It is also cheaper to protect clean water at its source than to build expensive water treatment facilities.

New York City, for example, saved $5 billion in construction costs by purchasing conservation lands around its reservoirs in the Catskill Mountains.

Despite the many documented economic benefits of conservation, each day we are losing 8.6 square miles of America’s finest lands to development. At this pace, most of the special places in America will be gone within 20 years.

We live in a democracy, but most people simply do not believe that they have a choice about the sprawl that is eroding both our communities and our countryside.

Yet there is reason for hope.

America’s 1,200-plus nonprofit land trusts have protected more than 6.2 million acres throughout the country, and they are working to expand the funding and incentives necessary to save even more land in the future.

Thanks to the leadership of many land trusts and their partners, voters across the country approved $5.7 billion in local and state funding for land conservation in 2002.

This is an astonishing accomplishment in the middle of a prolonged recession, and it affirms the broad bipartisan support for land conservation in America.

While we have made great progress with local funding for conservation, there are many parts of the country where public funding is not feasible at this time.

We desperately need to improve the federal tax incentives that land trusts can offer landowners in exchange for a donation of land or a conservation easement.

This year, we have the best chance in 20 years to get new tax incentives approved by Congress, but we need your help. 

We want Congress to know that voters in their home state believe that land conservation is a smart investment for 2003.

Where to get more information

Contact these agencies for more information about real property for sale from the government.

For FmHA sales, contact the Farmers Home Administration county office in the county where the property is located. Look under Federal Government, Farmers Home Administration in the government pages of the phone book for the area.

If the property you are looking for is not in the area covered by your local phone book, you often can find phone books for other cities and states at your local library.

 To contact some of the other federal government agencies which sell real property, you also find the local office in the government pages of the phone book for the area in which the property is located.

Look under Federal Government, and then for the office's name such as the U. S. Army Corp of Engineers (look for Army, Corps of Engineers), U.S. Marshals Service (look for U.S. Marshals Service of the Department of Justice), or the V.A. (look for Veteran's Administration).

For V.A. and HUD properties, check with licensed real estate brokers in the area where the property is located. You can also contact HUD directly at 1-800-767-4483.

 By writing to the Consumer Information Center, you can also receive a free or low-cost copies of various related booklets, and be added to the list to receive their quarterly publication of the U.S. Real Properties Sales List.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has three regional offices that handle real property sales depending on where the property is located.

These offices are: the Northeast Service Center, 101 E River Dr. East Hartford, CT 06108 (1-800-873-7785), the Western Service Center, 4 Park Place, Newport Beach, CA 92714 (1-800-234-0867), and the Field Operations Branch, 1910 Pacific Avenue, Dallas, TX 75201(1-800-568-9161).

 For information concerning state lands available for sale, contact the Division of State Lands (or similar department) for the state in which the property is located.

Also, see if the state has a web site.

A search of the Internet for the state, then for "land sales" or similar topic may help you find the home page for that state.

From there, look for a page containing information about real property sales. You can also use your computer to contact the web sites listed below.

 Some useful internet addresses:

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Asset Sales: http://www.fdic.gov/assets/index.html

U.S. General Services Administration: http://www.gsa.gov/pbs/pr/prhome.htm

Housing and Urban Development: http://www.hud.gov/homes.html

List of federal links: http://www.financenet.gov:80/financenet/sales/salefed.htm

U. S. Customs auction information: http://www.treas.gov/auctions/customs/

Bureau of Land Management: http://www.blm.gov

Consumer Information Center: http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/fed_p

Commerce Business Daily: http://cbd.cos.com

U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Directorate of Real Estate 20 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20314-1000.

Federal Property Resources Service-D U.S. General Services Administration Washington, D. C. 20405 1-800-472-1313.

Tennessee Valley Authority Surplus Sales 1101 Market St. P.O. Box 11127 Chattanooga, TN 37401-2127 1-423-751-8331.

EG&G Dynatrend, Inc., U. S. Customs Service Support Div. 3702 Pender Drive, Suite 400 Fairfax, VA 22030 1-703-273-7373.

Consumer Information Center Dept. 515 Pueblo, CO 81009

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