Working land across the United States
Most people buy the ranch. We buy the water.
Springwald Land is a family business. We buy working farms and ranches anywhere in the United States and hold them for the long term. We buy the whole operation in one sale, the people who know the ground can stay on it, and the land keeps working.
What we buy
Every kind of working land, if the water is right.
Ranches, crop and hay farms, orchards and vineyards, fish farms and ponds, in any state. Out West the water is usually rights on the state record. In the East and South it is ponds, springs, wells and frontage. Either way, the water comes first.
Ranches
Cattle ground with water on the record, not just a creek running through.
Crop and hay farms
Irrigated and dryland farms, with the wells, permits and equipment that run them.
Orchards and vineyards
Where the trees, the vines and their water are the asset.
Fish farms and ponds
Catfish and trout operations, cold springs and ponds that carry fish.
How we buy
The whole operation, kept working.
A farm or ranch is more than acres. It is the water, the equipment, the animals and the people who know the ground. We buy it that way and we keep it that way.
Water first
Rights, wells, ponds, permits, and who controls the delivery. We check the water before anything else, because it decides what the land is worth in twenty years.
Everything in one sale
The land, the water, the equipment and the livestock. No auction and no selling off piece by piece.
The people stay
If the family or the operator wants to keep running the place, we would rather they did. A retiring owner can keep living in their home and hand over at their own pace.
Held for the long term
We do not flip, subdivide or convert. The land stays whole, and the water, the fields and the animals are cared for at least as well as before.
Retiring?
No one to take over? Retire with peace of mind.
You spent a lifetime looking after the water, the fields and the animals. If no one in the family is taking it on, we would like to be the next ones to care for it. We buy the whole operation, you can stay in your home, and the farm keeps its name.
Talk to us
If you know working land, we want the conversation.
Own it, lease it, farm it, run cattle on it, or thinking about selling it, anywhere in the country. Ten short questions tell us about the land, and we reply within one business day.
Springwald Land is a family business. The Springwald family, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Springwald is our family name. A spring is water coming out of the ground, which is as good a description of this business as any.
Japanese gardeners have a word, shakkei, for borrowing the mountain behind the garden and making it part of the design. A farm works the same way. Much of what makes it valuable sits outside the fence line: the water upstream, the neighbor's parcel, the record of how the ground was kept. We buy with the borrowed view in mind.
