A "quick and dirty" way that real estate agents in my area use which you could do yourself is to get a copy of your local tax map showing the adjoining property owners so you could see exactly who has land adjoining yours. Find out what the tax valuation is on your land and how it relates to fair market price (some taxes are based on fair market prices and some a percentage lower which information the Tax Assessor should give you if you write a nice letter of inquiry). Then write a letter to various agents saying you are interested in investing in the area and asking them what they think is a fair per-acre price. This is kind of a dirty trick, but you want to get a FAIR price for your land, not too high nor too low and if the tax people are behind and your area is growing, you could lose thousands of dollars).(posted 9645 days ago)Okay, with a fair price in mind, then get the names and addresses of all the contiguous property owners and sned them all a nice letter offering your property at a higher price than you actually want, since they will come back with a counter-offer. I should think that anybody with land adjoining yours would jump at the chance to buy it.
I have seen several properties sold in my area by real estate agents using this simple technique of contacting the adjoining land owners with a simple offer to sell at a fair price. In one case, there was an offer of five acres at $15,000 (tax value) and the neighbors got into a bidding war and the property finally sold at $30,000, with the owner making the offer and no real estate agent involved.
Of course you have to have a lawyer to close the deal but in this case the seller paid for the title search (he's supposed to anyway) and for the lawyer to prepare the deed, pay recording fees and so on, so the seller walked away with a nice gain!
Good luck!