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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, alongside

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Speaker 1: my co host Matt Miller. Every business day, we bring

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Speaker 1: you interviews from CEOs, market pros, and Bloomberg experts, along

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com slash podcast. You know, we talk

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Speaker 1: about real estate and the hot real estate market and

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Speaker 1: talk often about existing home sales, new home sales. But

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Speaker 1: how about the land underneath all that real estate? Jason Walter,

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Speaker 1: CEO of National Land Realty, he focuses on that. Jason,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us here again. We're it's

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Speaker 1: just been amazing during this pandemic, how strong the real

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Speaker 1: estate and housing market has been. How about the land market.

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Speaker 1: They're not making any more anymore land, So talk to

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Speaker 1: us about the land market. Sure, yeah, that's correct, that

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Speaker 1: makes any more of it. Uh. We've experienced exception on

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Speaker 1: great this year to the first half of the year,

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Speaker 1: our sales were hundred uh and last year we were

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Speaker 1: up thirty two since the pandemic April, since it began,

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Speaker 1: we we've just sky rocketed. Jason I don't want to

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Speaker 1: put you on the spot here, but you could help

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Speaker 1: me solve a bit of a debate in my relatively

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Speaker 1: new marriage. My husband would love to buy just a

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Speaker 1: ton of land down in Virginia or West Virginia and

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Speaker 1: not worry about buying a house. Just hold onto the

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Speaker 1: land and we can rent. I would rather save up

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Speaker 1: and buy a house. Is buying land a better investment

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Speaker 1: than buying a house in this market? Well, again, it

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Speaker 1: all starts with lands. That you can do both both

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Speaker 1: of you can be happy, okay. But but to answer

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Speaker 1: your question, yeah, the returns of land, Um, it's a

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Speaker 1: less followed to market. You know. After the last Great recession,

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Speaker 1: the timber and egg land rule what we consider rule land,

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Speaker 1: it outperformed the commercial sector for the first five years

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Speaker 1: is really good against inflation. Both timber and and agg

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Speaker 1: comes to inflation. So right now is just a really

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Speaker 1: popular time to be buying land. So what kind of land?

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Speaker 1: I mean? Um, do I buy farmland? Timber ranch land?

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Speaker 1: I mean? What kind of land is? You know what

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Speaker 1: that you're recommending people take a look at. So it's

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Speaker 1: a good question because most people a segmentum we don't

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Speaker 1: typically detracts of land we sell incorporate three main components.

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Speaker 1: You're typically buying it h for recreational use, could be hunting,

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Speaker 1: could be camping, could be four wheeling. But as a

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Speaker 1: kind of a backup to your investment, it's typically going

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Speaker 1: to have some agriculture done on it and timber, so

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Speaker 1: you're you're kind of getting the best of all and

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Speaker 1: liveability a lot of there's a really nice wave of

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Speaker 1: people that are moving into more rural areas. You know,

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Speaker 1: only ninety percent of the US population who lives on

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Speaker 1: on yeah of the land. Yeah, Jason, it's so interesting.

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Speaker 1: I'm from the Washington, D c. Area, and every time

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Speaker 1: is what we call development zones. Future development zones and

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Speaker 1: is treeping out into suburbs. You know, obviously the builders

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Speaker 1: with there's a lot of reasons for that. But with

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Speaker 1: few people in the US have to go more than

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Speaker 1: Jason Walter, thanks so much for joining us. Jason Walters,

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Speaker 1: CEO of National Land Realty. He is a graduate of

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Speaker 1: Clemson University. Enjoys watching football and his alma model. Maybe

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Speaker 1: tough year for the Trevor Lawrence Clemson at tires. But Andy,

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Speaker 1: it's interesting again when we talk about it. I don't

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Speaker 1: and stuff, right, But I guess to Jason's point, those

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Speaker 1: build later. Maybe that's kind of the backwards way into it. Well, Kayley,

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Speaker 1: when I was a sell side equity analyst, the two

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Speaker 1: meetings you had to get on your West Coast marketing

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Speaker 1: he didn't get those meetings on your schedule, my boss

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Speaker 1: won't even pay for the ticket. Tc WS. Big Brian

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Speaker 1: Income Group. Um, Brian, thanks much for joining us here.

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Speaker 1: We've had a little bit of a pickup in yield

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Speaker 1: Paul um In that uh, you know, we we had

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Speaker 1: for joining us. I really appreciate getting your thoughts. Are

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Speaker 1: fascinating topic. Bill Student Baker, President and chief investment officer

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Speaker 1: for Robot Global. Thanks for listening to the Bloomberg Market podcast.

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