Know The Surroundings

Knowing what abuts a parcel is vital.  I see homes often times marketed as having green-belt privacy or wooded views however, if the bordering/adjacent land is privately owned, chances are that someday it will no longer be a wooded space.  This is an often reality due to the swelling population growth to the area, and land-supply quickly diminishing.  Green spaces once thought as serene might end up being the next new construction.  It may be more obvious in suburban locales however, growth in rural areas such as Fredrickson are turning up cleared expanses for industrial parks that abut housing developments; once appealing views of wooded or vacant plains.

Upon conducting research for a home with vacant land space surrounding it, I always research ownership in addition to other pertinent land-uses/zoning, topography/wet-lands for the area, in order to support findings for potential future use.  A garden variety extraordinary assumption can be useful in instances where the land is identified as privately owned but the intention of the owner is unknown. 

In the example photos, this lot had been wooded for eternity but due to market conditions, it has since been cleared and will likely be a new home in the near future.  The home that sits behind it previously had a nice private/wooded view expanse, perhaps was thought as a beneficial feature by the owner or perhaps even an unsuspecting sales associate or appraiser.... Soon, it will look at the backside of a stick-built home rather than the old-growth timber that once stood there.  What view would you choose?