We buy Upper Peninsula forest, northern recreational tracts, farmland and rural lots across Michigan for cash. Every sale closes through a licensed Michigan title company.
Reviewed June 2026 with 2025 USDA data
Michigan farm real estate averaged $1 an acre in 2025 (USDA NASS), and the state carries an effective property tax rate of about 1.38 percent (Tax Foundation). Idle Michigan land quietly costs money every year it sits, which is one reason many owners choose a direct cash sale over holding or listing.
| Average farm real estate value, 2025USDA NASS | $1 per acre |
|---|---|
| Michigan rank by land value | 18 of 48 states |
| Effective property tax rateTax Foundation | 1.38 percent |
| Annual property tax per $100,000 of value | about $1,380 |
| Typical direct sale closing | 2 to 4 weeks |
| Commission with a direct cash buyer | none, versus about 6 percent on a listing |
Michigan is two peninsulas of very different land. The Upper Peninsula is vast forest, remote and lightly populated, prized for hunting and recreation. The northern Lower Peninsula is lakes, woods and cabin country, and the south is farmland and more settled ground.
We buy that remote forest and recreational land, the farmland, and the rural parcels people stopped using, including the up-north tracts that are hard to reach and slow to sell the usual way.
Three very different Michigan land markets, and we buy across all of them.
Marquette, Chippewa, Delta and Gogebic, vast remote forest, hunting and recreational tracts.
Otsego, Roscommon, Kalkaska, Oscoda and Cheboygan, up-north cabin, lake and recreational land.
Sanilac, Tuscola and Huron, farmland and rural lots across the more settled south.
Michigan has a couple of quirks around tax and ownership worth knowing when you sell.
When land changes hands, its taxable value uncaps for the new owner. That affects their future tax, not your proceeds. We handle the transfer.
Vacant and recreational land does not get the Principal Residence Exemption, so the tax on an unused parcel keeps running.
Michigan owners often sell on a land contract. If you hold one, or want a clean cash sale instead, tell us and we will look at it.
Whatever the land owes is settled through the closing, not out of your pocket.
An average is only a starting point. Your number comes from the parcel, not the state.
USDA puts Michigan farm real estate near $6,800 an acre, 14 of the 48 states it tracks.
Across 83 counties, from $2,340 an acre in Delta County up to $20,415 in Wayne County.
County, access and acreage. We price your exact parcel from recent comparable sales near it. See the Michigan price guide →
These counties have a page on the way. Wherever your land sits in Michigan, it is very likely one we buy in too.
Send the parcel, even just a county or parcel number. We research it, send a written offer, and close through a licensed Michigan title company.
Get my cash offer →The situations we see most from land owners in this state.
Sell a parcel from an estate, with all heirs.
End the annual tax on an unused up-north parcel.
Sell your Michigan land without traveling.
Real ranges by region and parcel type.
What Michigan land owners ask us most, with the local detail that matters.
Yes. Upper Peninsula forest and northern Lower Peninsula cabin, hunting and recreational tracts are some of the most common parcels we buy in Michigan, including remote land with no utilities.
On a sale, the taxable value uncaps and resets for the new owner, which affects their future tax bill, not your sale proceeds. We handle the transfer through the closing.
Often, yes. Land contracts are common in Michigan. If you are the seller holding one, or you own land outright and want cash, tell us the details and we will look at it.
Yes. A lot of northern Michigan recreational land is owned from out of state. You sign from home and a licensed Michigan title company handles the deed and recording.
Michigan farm real estate averaged about $1 an acre in 2025, according to USDA NASS. Raw and recreational parcels usually trade below that average and cropland above it, so your acreage and land type set your real number.
Michigan has an effective property tax rate of about 1.38 percent (Tax Foundation), so land valued at $100,000 runs roughly $1,380 a year in property tax. Vacant land earns nothing while you hold it, which is one reason many owners choose to sell.
Answer a few quick questions, add a photo or plat if you have one, and we come back with a written, no obligation cash offer, usually within one working day.
A few quick steps. Parcel, size, location, a photo if you have one, then where to send the offer.
