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Sell Land With an Easement — Encumbered Does Not Mean Unsellable
Power lines, a gas pipeline, a gravel drive the neighbour has used for forty years, a conservation easement the previous owner granted. Easements change what land can be used for and what it is worth; they do not stop it from being sold. We buy encumbered parcels, read the recorded documents at our cost, and price what is actually there. Written offer within 24 hours.
- Utility, pipeline, road, drainage, conservation and prescriptive easements
- Unrecorded and disputed access handled
- We read the recorded documents at our cost
- No survey or attorney fees from you
- Written offer within 24 hours
- Close in as little as 14 to 30 days
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Land crossed by recorded or claimed easements
The kinds of easements that turn up on raw land
An easement is a right for somebody else to use part of your land for a defined purpose. On rural acreage the usual set is short: utility easements for power, telephone and water lines; pipeline easements with a maintained right of way; access easements letting a neighbour or a landlocked parcel reach a public road; drainage and ditch easements; conservation easements that permanently restrict development; and prescriptive or implied easements, where long-standing use has created a right nobody ever recorded.
The distinction that matters most to value is whether the easement merely crosses the land or controls what you may do with it. A power line along one boundary rarely changes much. A pipeline through the middle of the only building site changes a great deal. A conservation easement, which runs with the land in perpetuity, changes the asset permanently — but it also often lowers the tax burden and can raise the value to a buyer who wants unimprovable ground for hunting or timber.
Easements can also work in your favour, which owners forget. An access easement benefiting your parcel across somebody else’s land is the difference between landlocked and usable. Before accepting that a parcel has no access, it is worth looking for a recorded right of way, a reference in an old deed, or a route that has been used openly for long enough to matter. We do that search as a matter of course, and it has turned parcels people had written off into ordinary deals.
Why we can buy where a retail buyer stalls
The friction is again financing and certainty. A lender’s title commitment lists easements as exceptions, a survey may be required to plot them, and a retail buyer who wanted a house site discovers the setback from the pipeline puts it in the wrong place. The deal dies in diligence, and the listing goes back on the market with a story attached.
We pay for the title search and read the easement documents themselves — width, purpose, maintenance obligations, whether it is exclusive, whether it is assignable, whether the utility may widen it. That reading is the whole job. Two parcels with identical acreage and identical power lines can be worth materially different amounts depending on what those documents say, which is why we will not give a number until we have looked.
And we will tell you when an easement helps your price. Recorded, insurable legal access almost always raises what we can pay, because it widens the set of future buyers. If your file contains a right of way nobody has mentioned in decades, that is worth finding before you sell to anybody.
How we handle easements
We read the documents, not the rumour
Width, purpose, maintenance, exclusivity, assignability. Two similar-looking parcels can be worth very different amounts because of this language.
Access easements raise our number
Recorded, insurable legal access widens the future buyer pool, and we pay for that.
We look for access you did not know you had
Old deed references, plats and long-standing use. This has rescued parcels owners believed were landlocked.
Conservation easements are fine
Permanently restricted ground still trades as hunting, timber and buffer land. We buy it.
Pipelines are a pricing question
Where the right of way sits relative to the building site matters more than the fact of it.
Disputed use is not a dealbreaker
A neighbour’s driveway with no recorded right is a solvable problem and a common one.
Selling easement-encumbered land, step by step
Three steps, no obligation at any point, and no cost to you at any stage.
One call or one form
Tell us the address or APN and the rough size. You do not need a survey, a plat or the tax bill in front of you — we look all of that up.
We value it properly
We research the parcel ourselves, at our cost, before we quote. We price it off recent sales of similar acreage and adjust for access, soil, flood mapping, timber and shape. No cost to you, no commitment.
Written offer, your decision
You have our number in writing within 24 hours. If you take it, a licensed title company closes it and we cover the standard closing costs — typically 14 to 30 days.
Selling to us vs. listing it
Both are legitimate. Listing can bring a higher gross price if you have time, the tract is easy to finance and you can carry the taxes while it sits. Here is the honest comparison.
| Selling to Dreamify | Listing with an agent | |
|---|---|---|
| Who you are dealing with | A direct cash buyer — we are the ones purchasing | An agent marketing it to someone else |
| Commission | None | Typically 6–10% on land |
| Closing costs | We cover them | Usually split or seller-paid |
| Repairs, survey, clean-up | Not your problem | Often requested by retail buyers |
| Financing risk | None — cash | Land loans fall through often |
| Timeline | As little as 14 to 30 days once title work is back | Land can sit on the market for months |
Land we buy
Land we buy
- Vacant, raw and bare land
- Inherited and heir property, including multiple owners
- Land with back taxes or a delinquent tax bill
- Out-of-state and absentee-owned parcels
- Farm, timber and hunting acreage
- Small residential lots and infill parcels
- Landlocked tracts and parcels with access questions
- Land that failed a perc test
- Tracts tied up in an estate or probate
- Property you inherited and have never seen
What we don’t buy
- Houses, mobile homes and other structures
- Land you do not have the authority to sell
- Parcels where a co-owner has not agreed to sell
- Property already under contract with someone else
If we are not the right buyer for your parcel we will say so on the first call rather than waste your time.
We buy with our own money — here is what we have closed
We are a principal buyer using our own capital, not a lead broker collecting details to sell on. A sample of tracts we have bought and closed:
| Tract | Where we closed it |
|---|---|
| 32.3 acres | Perquimans County, North Carolina |
| 72 acres | Pike County, Mississippi |
| 10.7 acres | Morgan County, Georgia |
| 6.24 acres | Jasper County, Georgia |
| 8.5 acres | Pike County, Mississippi |
| 5.05 acres | Dawson County, Georgia |
A sample of tracts we have bought and closed ourselves. We are a principal buyer, not a broker — every one of these was purchased with our own funds through a licensed closing agent.
What sellers say
Every quote below is a real, verified Google review of Dreamify Properties — 4.9 stars across 14 reviews.
“John and his team are top notch investors who know what they are doing, put a plan of action in place and execute. One of the most honest people I have met… an absolute honor and pleasure working with these folks.”
“John, the ops manager, was very professional and attentive to detail in ensuring that our transaction was successfully completed. The communication, updates and follow up was excellent. Highly recommend.”
Questions we get asked
Can I sell land with an easement on it?
Yes. Easements run with the land and transfer with it. They affect value and use, not the ability to convey.
How much does a utility easement reduce the value?
It depends on location. Along a boundary, often very little; through the only building site, considerably. We will explain which case your parcel is.
Can I sell land with a conservation easement?
Yes. The restrictions continue for the next owner, which is exactly what those documents are for. Buyers who want unimprovable acreage still exist, and we are one of them.
A neighbour uses a road across my land with no written agreement.
That is a prescriptive or implied easement question, decided by state law and the facts of the use. We buy parcels with that unresolved and pay for the title work to sort it out.
Does an easement stop me from getting title insurance?
No. Recorded easements are ordinarily listed as exceptions to the policy rather than treated as defects.
Do I need a survey?
Not for an offer. If one is needed to close, we pay for it.
Find out what your land with an easement is worth to a cash buyer
Send the parcel details and we’ll research the property, answer your questions, and put a clear no-obligation offer in writing within 24 hours.
Land with a problem — more guides
Back taxes, liens, clouded title, flood zones, wetlands, easements and zoning. These are the parcels agents will not list, and the ones we buy most.