Casey Bond is a seasoned personal finance writer and editor. In addition to Forbes, her work has appeared on HuffPost, Business Insider, Yahoo! Finance, MSN, The Motley Fool, U.S. News & World Report, ...

Buying land can open potential for business, investment or building a home, but lenders typically don’t offer traditional mortgages for land without a valuable structure on it such as a home.

You may be able to use a home equity loan to secure a loan to buy — and potentially improve — a plot of land. A home equity loan might offer better terms and interest rates than other financing ...

Annual economic losses linked to desertification, land degradation, and drought amount to $878 billion – far more than the investments needed to mitigate their impact. Only by using innovative ...

On a January 2026 episode of The Dave Ramsey Show, a caller named Trina presented a plan financial advisors hear too often: using creative financing to flip land while carrying $44,000 in debt on a ...