About Virginia Farm & Land

Built for this ground

Virginia Farm & Land exists because farms and rural acreage do not sell the way houses do, and most real estate marketing does not bother to understand the difference. We built this site for landowners in Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William, and Culpeper counties who are trying to figure out what their ground is worth and what their options are, whether that means selling a farm or selling raw land, and for buyers who want acreage that actually works for what they intend to do with it, including the buyers we already represent.

The tagline is simple: local land knowledge, proven real estate experience. Both halves matter. Knowing the corridor is not enough without the license and the transaction experience behind it, and the license is not enough without having actually worked this ground.

Run by someone who has done the work

Inquiries here are handled by a Virginia real estate agent who lives on and operates a working cattle farm in Fauquier County — one that was built from raw land, not inherited already fenced and watered. Clearing ground, running a well, arguing with a health department over a perc site, fencing pasture, and paying a rollback tax bill are not abstractions here; they are things that have actually been done on this specific farm.

That agent has been licensed to sell real estate in Virginia since 2002. Combining a working farm's daily reality with two decades of transaction experience is the whole point of this site.

How we work

We talk straight, and we do not push. If your land is not worth what you hoped, we will tell you why. If a data-center offer sounds too good to be true, we will walk through what it actually means before you sign anything. If you are not ready to sell, that is a fine answer too.

Due diligence on rural property is not the same as due diligence on a house, and we treat it that way. That means checking land-use and rollback status, easements recorded against the parcel, zoning and division rights, well and septic history, and legal access before a property ever goes to market or before a buyer makes an offer.

The four counties, and why only these four

This site covers Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William and Culpeper counties, and stops there on purpose.

Those four share a set of problems that do not travel well. All four sit in or against the data-center corridor, and all four are working through what that does to farmland assessment, to zoning and to neighbours. Each runs its own version of the state's use-value assessment programme, and the differences between them are exactly the sort of detail that costs a seller money. Fauquier's sliding scale reaches rollback back to the date of the written agreement rather than five years. Loudoun runs a November 1 application deadline, a $125 per-parcel fee plus $1 an acre, and a six-year renewal. Prince William's recorded land sales are about 71 per cent parcels under five acres. Culpeper permits data centers by right inside one roughly 690-acre zone and requires a conditional use permit outside it.

Buyer representation runs wider than the content does. The buyers we work with are looking across nine counties — the four above plus Stafford, Spotsylvania, Madison, Greene and Warren.

What we will not do is write a page about a county whose rules we have not read.

What we don't do

We do not run a cash-buyer lowball model — showing up with a fast, deeply discounted offer and pressure to sign quickly. If that is not the right fit for your situation, we will say so.

We do not operate a doorway listing farm, collecting properties to hand off to other agents for a referral fee without real involvement in the sale. And we do not advertise or market a property without the owner's written authority.

Your farm & land specialist

Heather Skowronsky

Associate Broker · VA License #0225067177 · Samson Properties · 13575 Heathcote Blvd #340, Gainesville, VA 20155

She has sold real estate in Virginia since 2002 and works as an associate broker out of the Gainesville office listed above. She is a Virginia native and lives in Bealeton, in southern Fauquier County.

The farm came first, in a sense. She built her own Fauquier County cattle operation from raw land — clearing it, fencing it, putting in the well and the septic, and learning along the way what the health department will and will not approve. It is a cattle farm, not a show barn. That is why the guides on this site spend as much time on perc sites, division rights and rollback tax as they do on price.

Her work is with farm and land sellers across Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William and Culpeper counties. She is openly sceptical of converting farmland to data centers, particularly about what the water draw and the construction do to the communities around them, and she says so rather than pretending to be neutral. Landowners still get the whole picture, including the numbers on offer.

(571) 578-0012 · hello@virginiafarmandland.com

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