Rural Real Estate Prices Soaring In Texas

Buyers are not only snapping up houses for high prices in Texas, but investors are also buying vast swaths of rural land, surprising even the experts. Charles Gilliland, an economist at Texas A&M’s real estate center, says COVID fuels the land sales. People want to get out of the big cities. Realtors don’t have much land left, and what is on the market is 30-percent higher than last year.