I have several questions:

1) Are land prices going down, holding steady, or going up?

2) What counties are best value in terms of land prices?

3) What county is closest to Dallas, that you would consider beautiful Hill Country?

Goal: eventually buy land in hill country suitable for hunting, and then build nice cabin/home on said property.

Not an expert, but I don't think land prices EVER go down.

The balcones escarpment tecnically goes all the way up to west of Fort Worth. That's how you get some beautiful clear running limestone bed streams like the paluxy and Bosque rivers southwest of DFW.

not hill country but looks a lot like it

1 hour west of metroplex

http://www.landsoftexas.com/texas/index.cfm?Detail=&INV_ID=719853

Don't bother. Your personal friend Rick Perry will find out where you buy, invoke eminent domain, and have TxDot build a rest area/convenience store facility on your land for a non-existent toll road.

1.) For the most part holding steady. Large (500 acres and up are coming down some but you are still looking at a nice chunk of change.) Smaller tracts are holding fairly steady.

2.) Uvalde county has beautiful hill country property and really decent prices. Most expensive land prices are near Austin, Tx and in Gillespie County.

3.) areas around Richland springs and San Saba I would consider is the most norhtern boundary of the hill country.

I don't know, driving that area and growing up in that area, I would have to say that the Hill country extends at least half way into Brown County, From Richland Springs.

Shifty--I am a realtor for Mossy Oak located in Lampasas. Let me know if I can help with anything.

Land prices haven't really dropped in our parts, but you can still find some decent priced places in the area.

Let me know if I can help with anything.

Mills, San Saba, Menard, Mason, McCulloch and Kimble counties.

Stay North and West for the better values. That is cheaper land.

Bosque County. 2 hours or less from Dallas.

They call it the Top of the Hill Country.

we have a house on lake buchanon ...... prices continue to rise in burnet county. small tracts off water are going crazy ($3500+ per) with the city folks (like me) ........ on water, big a big wad (small lake lots, 1/2 ac are $150,000+)

We've been then 8 years and prices have increased every yr.



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So say you're looking for 100 acres in each of the counties mentioned, what per acre price range are we talking about?

FYI -
STATE LAND PRICES, SALES FALL
SAN ANTONIO (San Antonio Express-News) – Land prices fell 5 percent statewide last year for the first time since the early 1990s, according to data from the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University.
The decline marked the end of an appreciation run that peeked in 2008, when the median price per acre was $2,359, 330 percent more than the median price in 1994.
Charles Gilliland, research economist with the Real Estate Center, estimates prices dropped to around $2,141 per acre last year and thinks prices will continue dropping in 2010.
“The sellers are anticipating a ‘V'-shaped recovery and that happy days are going to be here again,” Gilliland said. “The potential buyers are saying, ‘Why should I pay this today when I can pick it up cheaper next year?'”
The number of sales fell 37 percent in 2009, as did the size of rural parcels sold. At an average of 70 acres, that’s the smallest amount per sale on record and a sign that buyers can’t afford to commit to bigger tracts.
However, while demand for recreational and subdivision property development has declined, there is still interest in irrigated cropland.
Gilliland said that superior, well-maintained parcels of land are what sell now, since buyers have plenty of choices.
“Buyers haven't disappeared, but they are resisting the prices,” said Gilliland.

I don't mean to take away from the thread but what about around Rocksprings/Edwards County/Sutton County?

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FYI -
STATE LAND PRICES, SALES FALL
SAN ANTONIO (San Antonio Express-News) – Land prices fell 5 percent statewide last year for the first time since the early 1990s, according to data from the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University.
The decline marked the end of an appreciation run that peeked in 2008, when the median price per acre was $2,359, 330 percent more than the median price in 1994.
Charles Gilliland, research economist with the Real Estate Center, estimates prices dropped to around $2,141 per acre last year and thinks prices will continue dropping in 2010.
“The sellers are anticipating a ‘V'-shaped recovery and that happy days are going to be here again,” Gilliland said. “The potential buyers are saying, ‘Why should I pay this today when I can pick it up cheaper next year?'”
The number of sales fell 37 percent in 2009, as did the size of rural parcels sold. At an average of 70 acres, that’s the smallest amount per sale on record and a sign that buyers can’t afford to commit to bigger tracts.
However, while demand for recreational and subdivision property development has declined, there is still interest in irrigated cropland.
Gilliland said that superior, well-maintained parcels of land are what sell now, since buyers have plenty of choices.
“Buyers haven't disappeared, but they are resisting the prices,” said Gilliland.

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this is correct information but has NO bearing on hill country property.

http://recenter.tamu.edu/pdf/1923.pdf