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Baby Boomers Are Leaving Behind a Trail of Luxury Ranches

Baby Boomers Are Leaving Behind a Trail of Luxury Ranches

It is true that Western legend no longer captures American imagination as it once did. But the main reason many Colorado – and Western – ranch sellers can’t sell their big ranches is that so many are overpriced. Many sellers have over-improved their ranches with enormous homes—and bigger, often unsightly

A Beginner’s Guide to Buying a US Ranch

A Beginner’s Guide to Buying a US Ranch

Here is a British financial analyst’s take on U.S. ranch ownership, which gets it partly right. While most ranches don’t produce annual cash returns that remotely reflect their market value, that doesn’t make them poor investments. This is also true of many kinds of commercial and

Ranching as a Conservation Strategy: Can Old Ranchers Save the New West?

Ranching as a Conservation Strategy: Can Old Ranchers Save the New West?

Ranching, when properly conducted, is essential to conservation. The greatest value of any ranch lies in its recreational and ecological value, not its production value for ranching. While it is true that rural land in the path of urban development is most economically valuable when it is subdivided or otherwise