The Hopkins Farm is strategically located on route 213 just south of Centreville, Maryland. The entrance is directly across from Symphony Village at Centreville, an active adult living community, which has built and sold 300 out of a total of 395 permitted homes. (http://www.symphonyvillage.com/). The Hopkins Farm has town water and sewer contiguous to the property. The Farm is zoned agricultural - has significant hunting potential - has significant residual value - and priced to sell as a working farm, but has a very large potential for present and future development.
Beyond this, for many of us, land represents more than simply another asset class to be wedged in our portfolio. It may form a cornerstone to a family legacy. It often plays a central role in defining who we are, and is therefore crucial to maintaining our family's cohesion and achieving our goals.
As world population expands, the demand for arable land should soar, at least that's what George Soros, Lord Rothschild, and other investors believe.
"I'm convinced that farmland is going to be one of the best investments of our time," says commodities guru Jim Rogers.
"If you take government's printing money as fast as they are, borrowing as fast as they are, and bailing out white-elephant corporations, we're surely going to have an inflationary situation fairly soon." Lord Rothschild
One of the few asset classes that didn't blow up in the meltdown was farmland.