Come join us!Come check out the new blog from NAR's Information Central! "Power Tools for Land Professionals" is no longer being updated, but you'll find plenty of interest in the InfoCentral Blog. The InfoCentral Blog keeps you up-to-date on new and useful information resources for the real estate industry -- websites, research reports, eBooks, news articles, services and databases from NAR's Information Central, and more. Surf on over to http://narblog1.realtors.org/mvtype/infocentral/. New eBooks: Sustainable development and sprawlRecently added to NAR's Virtual Library eBooks Collection: Land Use Law for Sustainable Development (Adobe), Green Cities: A Guide for Sustainable Community Development (Mobipocket), and Don't Call it Sprawl (Mobipocket). Also new this month: Negotiating for Dummies (Adobe), Crucial Confrontations (in Adobe and audio formats), and Effective Networking (audio). Check out eBooks.realtor.org for these and other titles. NAR members and association staff can borrow up to 3 eBooks, digital audios, and/or videos for FREE. New to NAR's digital library? Just follow the Quick Start Guide...and have your NRDS number ready! America's Forests - a Family ResourceThe New York Times ran a story last Thursday on what one commentator characterized as the "largest intergenerational transfer of forest land in our nation’s history" (Family Forestry by Tanya Mohn, June 14, 2007). Nearly 60 percent of the nation's forestland is in private hands, most of which are owned by individuals and families who are over 55 years old. The children of these landowners don't always live close to the land. Many live far away in larger cities with little idea of what it means to steward forests. Conservationists fear that they are ripe for exploitation by developers, either out of ignorance or the need for money to pay property or inheritance taxes. Living on the FarmFor those looking to get closer to nature, the Wall Street Journal (via Proquest, login on realtor.org required) reported last week on a new trend - housing developments on working farms. The article says that the projects can begin either with developers buying land around a farm or by developers buying land and finding tenant farmers to work for them. Regardless, most farms are near major metro areas and attract people who desire to get back to the land. Buyers looking for "the easy country life" or a "little house on the prairie" might want to take a closer look: chicken coops have a distinct odor that can carry and vacant field are often burned in the fall to kill non-native plant species. Still for those who are drawn to views of rolling fields and cows munching on hay, these urban farmsteads offer another alternative. Eminent Domain Battles Continue in New JerseyAlmost two years after the Supreme Court decision regarding the ability of local jurisdictions to confiscate land and property for redevelopment, tempers remain heated in New Jersey as the state crafts changes to its policies. While public advocates stress the need to put the burden on the state to prove that land or property is 'blighted', New Jersey Senate Majority Leader Bernard F. Kenny called the proposal a 'litigation nightmare' that would halt development in the state. Other senators have called for a two year eminent domain moratorium in the state. 
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