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The term rural refers to life in the countryside or farm areas, essentially the opposite of urban, and usually located far from the nearest city center or metropolitan area. The word land is commonly defined as the solid part of the Earth’s surface not covered by water, often considered as property.
An urban growth boundary (UGB) is a regional boundary, set in an attempt to control urban sprawl by, in its simplest form, mandating that the area inside the boundary be used for urban development and the area outside be preserved in its natural state or used for agriculture.
The expression originates from the French word périurbanisation ("peri-urban" meaning "around urban"), which is used by the INSEE [1] (the French statistics agency) to describe spaces—between the city and the countryside—that are shaped by the fragmented urbanisation of former rural areas in the urban fringe, both in a qualitative (e.g. diffusion of urban lifestyle) and in a quantitative ...
Some United Kingdom and commonwealth universities offer courses in land economy, where economics is studied alongside law, business regulation, surveying, and the built and natural environments. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] This mode of study at Cambridge dates back to 1917 when William Cecil Dampier suggested the creation of a school of rural economy ...
A real estate transaction is the process whereby rights in a unit of property (or designated real estate) are transferred between two or more parties, e.g., in the case of conveyance, one party being the seller(s) and the other being the buyer(s). It can often be quite complicated due to the complexity of the property rights being transferred ...
Statewide, the volume of rural land sales dropped 26.5% from mid-2021 to mid-2022, according to a new report from the Texas Real Estate Research Center. In Region 4, which encompasses northeast ...
In surveying and property law, a land description or legal description is a written statement that delineates the boundaries of a piece of real property. In the written transfer of real property, it is universally required that the instrument of conveyance include a written description of the property.
Ken H. Johnson, a real estate economist at Florida Atlantic University and a former real estate broker, says the new rules just add another layer of complexity to an already-confusing process.