The Rural Voice, 2003-01, Page 21Ridgetown College
OUTLOOK 2003:
LAND PRICES
Rise in land prices
seems to have taken
a break
The trend in farm prices seemed
to be downward in 2002, Karl
Douglas, a St. Marys -based
farm property appraiser told the Farm
Business Seminar in Stratford in
November.
Douglas said there had not been as
many sales in 2002 in general though
some areas had been quite active. He
went over the area he serves
township by township, giving the
number of sales the price range for
each area was based on. In general,
however, he recorded sales in Oxford
County in a range from $4,300 to
$7,300, with the upper end being one
50 -acre parcel for which there was a
"highly motivated buyer". More
generally the range was from $4,500-
$5,500 per acre.
Southern Perth saw one extreme
sale of $8,000 an acre for land with
no improvements but more typically
the price ranged from $4,200 to
$5,500 over the area of the former
townships of Downie, Blanchard,
Fullarton, Hibbert, and South
Easthope.
In North Easthope, Ellice, Elma
and Mornington, the prices ranged
more in the $3,500 to $5,000 area
with some sales as low as $3,000 and
an odd sale as high as $5,300. Logan
was quite active with 11 sales
ranging from two at only $3,000 an
acre to one at $5,300 an acre.
Wallace Township was also very
active with 13 sales ranging from
$3,200 to $4,600.
Across the border in the former
Maryborough Township area of
Wellington County prices ranged
from' $3,000 an acre in the north to
$3,500 to $4,000 in the south.
In Huron County, prices in
Usborne ranged from $4,000 to
$4,200 while in Stephen and Hay
sales ranged from $3,000 to $4,000.
Tuckersmith ranged from $3,600 to
$5,000 and Stanley, $3,300 to
$3,800.
North of Highway 8, prices in
Hullett had a wide range — $2,700 to
$5,100 while McKillop ranged from
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