What you should know
What a Dallas lot is actually worth
Inside the city, land is worth what a builder will pay to put a house on it, and that depends on four things: zoning (single-family, duplex, multifamily), lot dimensions (width matters more than people expect), utilities at the street, and what new construction sells for within a few blocks. In neighborhoods where new builds are going up — parts of Oak Cliff, East Dallas, and pockets of South Dallas — a 1950s house can be worth less than the lot it sits on. We buy those as land, not as houses.
Outside the built-up core, value follows road access, floodplain, and whether the parcel can be subdivided. A landlocked parcel or one fully inside a FEMA flood zone is worth a fraction of one that isn't. We check all of this before we make an offer, and we'll tell you what we found.
Common situations
Inherited land you've never seen. Land where the taxes have gone unpaid for years and the county has filed suit — common, because land taxes are small enough to forget and the collection firm notices anyway. A builder made an offer years ago and never followed up. A lot you bought to build on before life changed. A strip of land left over after a sale or a family split. Every one of these we've bought before.
How we research a parcel
Give us the address or, better, the DCAD account number from your tax statement. We pull the appraisal district record, the zoning, the plat, the flood map, utility availability, any delinquent taxes, and recent land sales nearby. Then we make a written offer — usually without you needing to be there or do anything. If we can't make the numbers work, we'll tell you why, which is often useful on its own.
Closing on land
Same as a house: a Texas title company, a deed, a wire. Back taxes are paid from the sale price at closing, and any tax suit is dismissed. Land closings are often faster than houses because there's less to inspect.
