Sell Your Land The Smart Way
The platform built for owners and heirs who want more than a one-time check. Sell to your farmer on contract, defer capital gains under IRS Section 453, or take a traditional all-cash sale.
Two Ways To Sell
Traditional Listing: List your farm, market it widely, and get the best price the market will pay.
Legacy Land Contract: Sell directly to your farmer or a beginning farmer on a five-year installment. They put 10-20% down, you collect interest, and capital gains tax is deferred under IRS Section 435. If they default the land comes back to you.
Why we Exist
$770 billion of farmland is changing hands this decade.
Most of it will ends up with hedge funds, pension funds, and foreign buyers. Not with the farmer who’ve worked the ground for generations.
LandCo was built to give farm families a third option. Not “sell to an institution for the highest bid at auction” and not “hold until I die and hope for the best.” We help you create a real, structured way to cash out, defer the tax hit, keep income coming in, and put your land in the hands of someone who can continue the legacy.
That is why we pick up the phone.
IRS Section 453
The tax code lets you spread the capital gain. Most sellers don’t know it.
Sell your farm for cash and you write a check to the IRS for capital gains in a single tax year. It often reaches 20-25% federal plus your state tax. On a low basis asset your family has held for decades.
Sell on a Legacy Land Contract and IRC 453 let’s you recognize that gain only as principal payments come in. Across a five-year contract, you keep your money working instead of handing a quarter of it to the federal government year one.
For a $1.5 million low-basis farm, that is the difference between a $300k+ tax bill year one, and spreading that out over five year. While earning interest on your unpaid balance the entire time.
Local roots, professional edge
LandCo is the platform for land deals done right. Our Illinois-licensed brokerage, Illinois Land Company, doesn’t sit around waiting for the phone to ring.
We send 300 letters per week, work directly with farm families, and bring structured financing options that most brokers cannot.
Current Listings
Looking for ground?
Whether you’re a farmer expanding your operation, and investor building a portfolio, or a family looking for legacy ground, we can help you find the property you are looking for.
Get on our early-look list and we’ll send qualifying farms to your inbox before they are listed publicly.
Testimonials
“At Farmland Partners, we research and buy farmland on a consistent basis. We find LandCo’s approach unique and refreshing. They understand very well what we look for and why, and this enables them to provide us with truly top-notch services.”
— Lucca FabbriManaging Partner | Farmland Partners
“John and the LandCo team do a great job of marketing and presenting their properties. From the videos to the blogs, you really get a good feel for the property before you even set foot on it. I knew exactly what I was getting when I bought a property through ILC. I look forward to working with them again.”
— Doug OberhelmanCEO Caterpillar (Retired)
One farm. One chance to get this right.
Book a free farm consultation. We'll walk you through your options with your specific numbers, model the tax outcomes, and help you decide which one fits your situation the best.
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