Land acquisition is a filtering problem wearing a relationship problem's clothes. Before you can call anybody you have to know which parcels are vacant, which improvements are worth less than the dirt, who owns them, and whether a competitor is already three lots into the block.
Parcels with no improvement value, or improvements worth a fraction of the land under them. Filter by acreage, value band and county, then look at satellite to confirm.
Value + acreage filtersSatellite background shows what the roll doesn't — cleared lots, slabs, barns, ponds, access. And the flood overlay tells you what you can't build on.
Satellite + FEMA overlayMost land worth having is held by an entity. Trace the LLC to its officers, then see everything else that principal holds — because one conversation can cover six parcels.
Entity graphMonitor a target area. When adjacent parcels change hands or a competitor's entity lands one, you hear about it rather than discovering it at permit stage.
Monitors + briefsSite selection, compressed.
Two joins cover finding the dirt and reading the competition. No single record below means much on its own — the signal is the join, and every ingredient stays inspectable so you can check the working.
Vacant and near-vacant inventory, without driving the county.
All 13 counties. Not entitlement data — zoning and utilities aren't in the roll.
Somebody has a plan for this block, and shells are how it stays quiet.
All 13; transfer timing needs the deed layer.
Zero or near-zero improvement value against land value, filtered by acreage, price band and county. The buildable inventory, without driving it.
Improvement value as a fraction of land value, with building age and square footage — the classic scrape candidate, ranked.
Search a builder's entity name and see every parcel it holds across all 13 counties. Their land bank, on your map.
Adjacent parcels landing with one entity, or several entities sharing a registered agent. The pattern that says somebody has a plan for this block.
Official FEMA zones drawn over every parcel — 100-year, 500-year, floodway — plus a parcel-level flood filter, so unbuildable acreage doesn't reach your pro forma.
409 tracked power and data-center campuses statewide. Rooftops follow payroll, and payroll is following the buildout.
Free intel briefs on Texas land — transmission corridors, realtor farming data, and the critical-minerals land rush. We publish what we find while building the maps — every post cites its sources and every number comes from a query we actually ran.
The Texas PUC has an August cluster of 765-kV route orders — dockets 59315, 59182 and 59336. The chosen route decides who gets an easement letter.
Realtor Intel38,246 single-family homes in Williamson County are owned by someone whose mail goes to a different ZIP — about one in six. The highest-yield farm list in the county.
Minerals BriefRound Top is headed toward production and the state's newest mega-ranch turned out to hold rare-earth mineralization. The paper trail: GLO leases, deeds, entity filings.
Read The Brief instead. It's free, there's no account, and it's the honest way to see whether this data is any use to you before you pay for it.
Acquisitions is rarely one person. Team's five seats and unlimited monitors let land, entitlements and finance work the same board.
Already sure? Subscribe now — $150/mo founding → · annual saves two months
Solo shop? Pro is $25/mo founding ($50 regular) with 1 seat and 5 monitors.
Seven days, full access, no card. Run it against the ZIPs, counties or addresses you actually work and see whether it's worth what we say it is.