What Affects Timberland Value — and What Doesn't Affect the Sale
Timberland value has two components: the land itself and the standing timber. Professional timber buyers and large timberland investment organizations (TIMOs) price both components separately via a timber cruise — a systematic inventory of species, volume, and quality. For smaller parcels, this level of analysis rarely happens, and most individual sellers don't have one.
We don't require a timber cruise. We price the parcel based on location, acreage, access, and comparable sales in the area. You don't need to hire a forester before you can get an offer from us.
Things that affect our offer: recorded timber sale contracts (if someone has already bought the right to harvest your trees, that affects the land's value), conservation easements (some forested parcels carry easements that restrict development permanently), hunting lease income (a hunting lease adds value if it's structured well), and road and access conditions (a wooded parcel with internal roads is more valuable than one that's never been accessed).
Things that don't prevent the sale: the timber hasn't been recently managed, there are no roads through the property, the parcel is remote, or you've never harvested a tree from it. We buy forested land in all conditions.
Call 757-743-1048. We buy timberland in every region of the country — Pacific Northwest, Southeast pine, Appalachian hardwood, Midwest woodlots, and everything in between.
If the plan is to clear the parcel rather than manage it, the land clearing cost per acre guide shows how far current stumpage prices go toward paying for the job.
