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Underneath It All Is The Berkshire Land or as Mark Twain said "Invest In Land. They Are Not Making It Anymore."

Here in the Berkshires land ownership is very much a part of how local wealth has been held over the centuries, and is a magnet indeed for thousands of out of town investors and second home owners as well.   Our modern American legal codes regarding real estate ownership, and the English common laws that came before them, owe much of their existence to the original concepts of land ownership.  These were first adopted all the way back in the Middle Ages as the struggle between societal classes played out over land ownership and rights.  Before widespread use of printed or coined money, mutual funds, any kind of modern bank or savings accounts, ownership of shares, etc., wealth was primarily measured in terms of the land you owned.  In some societies even today that concept still is very valid and a part of 21st century thinking.  Here in the Berkshires land ownership is very much a part of how local wealth has been held over the centuries, and is a magnet indeed for thousands of out of town investors and second home owners as well.

In essence,  everything that happens in modern real estate conveyance has its roots in the land underneath, the land itself.  When you buy a home, you are buying the land and its improvements.  When you buy a condo or coop, you may be buying with a group of people, but at the bottom of the building is the parcel of land.  And buying land just for the sake of buying and owning land is a time tested and highly valid investment strategy, especially here in the Berkshires.  The volatility and uncertainty of the times we are living in now only enhance the attractiveness of land as an asset class that merits a portion of any astute investor's portfolio.  Putting all your resources into financial assets has been a slippery slope to say the least.  The land will always be there, underneath it all!