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frontage at full price six weeks after listing the property. Insight: An uptick in 1031 exchange money coming from investors who sold condos in Florida and wanted to invest in rural properties in Alabama. Tom Smith Land and Homes www.tomsmithland.com (601) 898-2772 2015 Sales: $100 - $250 Million Who: Regional authorities in recreational hunting tracts, timber investment tracts, ranches, farm ground, and agricultural cropland. Wow: Sold a 6,200-acre tract in Hardin County, Tennessee. Insight: "Investors seemed to accelerate diversification of their portfolios into landholdings at a faster rate in the second half of the year," says Tom Smith. United Country Gibson Realty & Land Company www.gibsonrealtyms.com (601) 250-0017 2 015 Sales: $100 - $250 Million Who: Network of nine offices in Mississippi and Louisiana focus- ing on farms, recreational land, timberland, and country homes. Wow: Top-ranked United Country office by sales. Insight: Buyer and seller activity remained consistent. Real estate loans remained very affordable. United Country Neeley Forestry Service www.neeleyforestryservice.com (870) 836-5981 2015 Sales: < $50 Million Who: Arkansas-based experts in timberland and recreational properties with an emphasis on hunting. Wow: Sold a 4,770-acre proper- ty, one of the brokerage's largest transactions to date. Insight: "The average price per acre in 2015 was 9.5 percent below the previous two-year average," says Broker Josh Barkhimer. S O U T H W E S T Accredited Land Brokers & World Class Ranches www.worldclassranches.com (918) 426-6006 2015 Sales: < $50 Million Who: Leaders in land, ranches, and trophy-hunting properties. Wow: Over $72 million in new listings and sales in 2016. Insight: "More and more people will be looking to land as a safe-haven investment vehicle," says Broker Robert Bahe. Adkins & Associates www.adkinsandassoc.com (512) 751-0533 2015 Sales: > $50 Million Who: Texas Hill Country specialists emphasizing show- place ranches and conservation easements along with vineyards and recreational products. Wow: Owner Becky Adkins subdivided and sold a ranch in 250- to 300-acre parcels in 1981. Fast-forward several decades to 2015 when Adkins helped a buyer reassemble the original ranch, which is within 35 min- utes of downtown Austin. "It was a lot of fun to preserve such a nice large tract of land A M E R I C A ' S BEST BROKERAGES 82 The LandReport | S U M M E R 2 0 1 6 LANDREPORT.COM