Selling timberland in North Mississippi

Timber tracts are priced on two things at once: the land itself, and whatever is standing on it.

Send the parcel number and roughly when it was last cut or thinned, and you will get a straight read on the tract and who buys this kind of land.

Your options

Rows of loblolly at various ages. Whether it has been thinned changes the picture a lot.

Bottomland and creek hardwood. Harder to harvest, but often valuable as recreational ground.

Recently harvested tracts sell on the land and the replanting potential rather than on standing timber.

Much of the wooded ground in Lee, Itawamba, Pontotoc and Monroe counties is planted loblolly pine, with hardwood along the creek bottoms.

Stand age, thinning history and whether a log truck can actually get in usually matter more than total acreage.

Lots, pasture, farm ground, timber tracts and highway frontage across Tupelo and the surrounding counties.

Sometimes, sometimes not. A cruise will show whether harvesting first nets more than selling the tract intact.

Not to start. For a larger tract it is usually worth having one before you agree to a price.

That can be structured, though it narrows the buyer pool and usually lowers the land price.

Looking for your part of town? Start with the Tupelo area guide, including Downtown Tupelo and the rest of the city, or the wider North Mississippi service area.