It struck me that land prices in northwestern North Dakota are going to go up dramatically because of the oil boom in the Bakken oil shale area.  Jame’s McPherson’s article about oil making overnight millionaires in North Dakota is all over the web this morning.
I wondered what that idea will do to small towns like […]

According to an article on the KX News site, a petition is going around the state to try to ban the hunting of big game animals like deer and elk on private lands where they are raised.  Another group of activists, including one Shawn Schafer, has banded together as a group called Citizens to Protect […]

According to this article  printed in the Bismarck Tribune, the real estate industry in the Bismarck-Mandan, North Dakota area is remaining steady.  It seems the slight dips during the late fall and winter months are typical, and while sales are a little slower now, no one expects them to stay slow–especially with all the new construction going […]

Apparently it isn’t just housing that is increasing in value.  According to this article posted at Dakota Farmer, crop land in North Dakota increased by an average of 20 percent in 2007.  Some real estate which rose by about $50 an acre during the four previous years rose by about $140 an acre this past year. 
 Thanks to Ethanol Statistics for […]

Thanks to Flat and Treeless for posting about this article and bringing it to my attention…
There are some parts of the nation where the real estate industry is doing well in spite of the widespread housing slump.  According to this New York Times article, some cities in North Dakota (Grand Forks and Bismarck, for instance) are […]