Conservation Land Group

Buyers

CLG assists land purchasers in identifying, assessing, negotiating and successfully acquiring significant resource properties throughout California.

CLG staff does exhaustive research on land ownership and opportunities, market conditions, and ever-changing regulations in order to provide our clients with the best information possible. We are in constant communication with a vast network of contacts developed over many years and are often able to identify properties before they come on the market.

Our transaction work on behalf of land buyers includes negotiating purchase contracts and conservation easement terms, overseeing due diligence reports such as appraisals, boundary surveys and Phase I environmental site assessments, educating decision makers on the merits of a property acquisition, and assisting with title and escrow matters.

CLG’s buyer clients include land trusts and foundations, public agencies, mitigation purchasers, conservation banking firms, and individuals and companies seeking to protect and enhance large ranches through the use of conservation easements and other tools.

Examples of our work on behalf of buyers include:

•	Acting on behalf of a Southern California land trust, we facilitated the transfer of three critical natural resource properties totaling 7,500 acres to the State of California. These projects involved lengthy negotiations with long-time property owners and extensive coordination between the land trust and acquiring agency.

•	CLG assisted a large development firm in identifying, negotiating and purchasing 825 acres of prime farmland to satisfy an off-site agricultural mitigation requirement. Our services on this project included working with the conservation easement holder to craft easement terms and preparing a property baseline conditions report.

•	Over a three-year period, CLG staff completed numerous conservation easement and fee title purchases on behalf of a Northern California open space district. These transactions ranged from small recreational parcels to large ranches and vineyard properties.

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