Land Buying Insights
Guides, news, and tips for buying and owning vacant land in California.
California Ground — What People Come Looking For, and What They Find
California is improbable. Anyone who's driven it knows this — not the California of freeway interchange and parking structure, but the other one, the one that keeps asserting itself between the towns: the Sierra Nevada lifting white and enormous into a sky that seems to have been turned up to a higher setting than the sky elsewhere, the coastal ranges folding and refolding themselves into the sea, the great Central Valley spread out flat as a conviction, the Mojave running its clean, ruthless horizontal toward Nevada with its Joshua trees standing around like philosophers who've given up explaining.
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Small House, Big Sky — The New Logic of Tiny Homes and the Land Beneath Them
The tiny home movement began, as most genuinely useful ideas do, partly from necessity and partly from a kind of blessed stubbornness. People looked at the American housing market — its impossible prices, its forty-year mortgages, its beige-carpeted rooms nobody uses — and decided, quietly but in increasing numbers, to opt out. Not out of despair but out of a dawning preference for a different set of trade-offs.
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The Old Pull — Why People Still Want a Piece of Ground
There is something embarrassingly ancient about wanting to own land. Not embarrassing because it's shameful — just because it bypasses argument. The want comes up from somewhere below the level of spreadsheets and mortgage calculators, from a place in the human animal that doesn't care much about your opinions on the matter. You drive out past the last gas station, past the last subdivision with its identical cream-colored fences, and you come to a stretch of open ground — oak trees maybe, or high desert scrub, or just a quiet hillside going gold in October — and something in the chest relaxes that you didn't know was clenched. That's the thing. That's what we're talking about.
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