‘Its big, its Texas, and its wild!’: For $300 million this 430,305-acre ranch can be yours

Want to be a land baron in the Lone Star State?

Land And Farm has tens of thousands of rural properties for sale in the state, including farms, ranches, residential land, cabins, recreational land and hunting land. Texas has the most land for sale in the country currently listed on Land And Farm.

The market value of Texas land for sale is $48 billion and totals about 4 million acres, which is the most in the country, according to Land And Farm. The median price of Texas farmland for sale is $359,000.

Agriculture is integral to Texas’s economy. Texas is the country’s fifth largest agricultural state, with farmland featuring a diverse landscape that includes rolling plains, fertile valleys and desert regions. Texas’s agriculture industry boasts crops like cotton, corn and sorghum. Livestock farming, particularly cattle and poultry, is prominent.

Of the 254 counties in Texas, Johnson County has the most rural property and land for sale, and its county seat of Cleburne is the Texas city with the most land for sale. The Fort Worth Prairie Region is the area in Texas with the most land for sale, 6,727 properties. Visit landandfarm.com for a list of ranches 20,000 acres or more. Horseback riding, fishing, boating and RVing are some of the activities landowners can partake in.

“This ranch is hard to get your head around being half the size of Rhode Island with over 430,305 acres in a single ownership just north of Big Bend National Park and Black Gap Wildlife Management Area,” reads a listing for Brewster Ranch, a 430,305-acre property in Marathon selling for $299 million. “It is all owned by one owner and was assembled through the purchase of over 28 ranches with names like Horse Mountain, YE Mesa, Tesnus, Dove Mountain, Pope, Bear Mountain, and Matthews Law. South of Marathon to the Lower Canyons of the Wild and Scenic Rio Grande near Big Bend National Park. Its big, its Texas, and its wild!”

Is land value going up in Texas?

Land values continue to climb in the state. The average value of Texas farm real estate is $2,900 per acre, up from $2,650 in 2022, according to the Texas Farm Bureau.

What is the value of land in Texas?

Texas land prices have been on the rise, with the average cost per acre of rural land surpassing $4,000 in 2022, per the Texas Real Estate Research Center. Prices have continued to climb, reaching an average of $4,625 per acre in the second quarter of 2023.

Texas land prices have been on the rise. Texas Real Estate Research Center
Texas land prices have been on the rise. Texas Real Estate Research Center
Texas land prices have been on the rise. Texas Real Estate Research Center
Texas land prices have been on the rise. Texas Real Estate Research Center

“Rising prices coupled with diminished activity suggests that current buyers have focused on higher-quality properties,” wrote Texas A&M University research economists Charles Gilliland and Lynn Krebs.

How much land is available in Texas?

With Texas being one of the top three states in the nation for selling rural land, many options are available if you’re looking for a ranch or farm. There are 4 million square miles of land available for sale in Texas, at an average price of $2,426 per acre, according to land.com.