Big jump in lease prices ?

[tprice]

Buddy called me today that is still in club I got out of several years ago, said their lease just came and jumped $1.50+ an acre on 1200 acres ?

Years ago we would see an increase of $.50 acre every other year at best .

Not sure who their lease is with now, seems like F&W or someone like that

[banded_mallard]

Buddy called me today that is still in club I got out of several years ago, said their lease just came and jumped $1.50+ an acre on 1200 acres ?

Years ago we would see an increase of $.50 acre every other year at best .

Not sure who their lease is with now, seems like F&W or someone like that

Supply and demand. I know people getting $20-25 an acre for all hunting rights.

[thunderchicken]

Hunting leases will be as high or higher than agricultural leases in a few short years. Like previously stated, supply and demand.

[Gander]

What's the average per acre prices for property in the Midlands?

[scquackaddict]

It’s all a supply and demand issue. There are also published lease averages that are pretty high across the southeast. SC has some of the highest lease rates in the southeast. Being in a position like I am where we manage land that is leased, we want to try to do right by the leasee but have corporate breathing down your neck every year to raise rates. Realistically I could probably kick off every hunt club that we manage in SC and have the property re-leased in short order for significantly more than the current lease rate. At the end of the day more people moving to SC with more money drives the price up. There is stuff outside of Charleston leased for $35/acre on large tracts. It’s absurd

[Hogg]

In 2017 I had a 550 acre lease outside Ravenel for $10.90 an acre. It went to auction in 2018 and went up to $23 an acre.

[Chuck the Duck Slayer]

Weyerhaeuser is using another company out of Florida to handle all their hunting leases and they went up a lot this year from what I was told last weekend

[jwterry3]

Weyerhaeuser is using another company out of Florida to handle all their hunting leases and they went up a lot this year from what I was told last weekend

Ours went up 7%

[pluffmudder]

You guys are able to get a lease???

[Catdaddy]

I guess I need to up my lease price from $7.50 per acre.



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[joshua2]

You guys are able to get a lease???

No shit! I’ve called all the local guys that manage around here since we lost our small tract in 2019. Still nothing available.

[Chuck the Duck Slayer]

You guys are able to get a lease???

we've had this lease over 30 years

[hunterjw]

Supply and demand. Plenty of people in other states including the one I reside in will pay top dollar as it is comparatively less to local prices. Some of ours locally have broken apart and doubled, some developed etc. That just puts even more outside pressure on sc and surrounding states.

Just be glad your turkeys aren’t $3k a pop!

[centurian]

Ours goes up couple hundred every year. I just pay the base bid and avoid an auction. If I let it go it would be gone in a day sight unseen. The smaller leases 200 to 300 acre go fast. Ours is about 800 acres.

[smitch320]

Like everything else, the price has increased.

[centurian]

Ours goes up couple hundred every year. I just pay the base bid and avoid an auction. If I let it go it would be gone in a day sight unseen. The smaller leases 200 to 300 acre go fast. Ours is about 800 acres.

[Beachbird]

Ours goes up 5% every year like clockwork.

[mudflat]

This brings up a good question about leasing. How much will you pay to be in a good club? Access to deer, turkeys, hogs. I pay 2400 a year and wonder what my breaking point is? Ours did not go up this year. 30 members, 7k acres Georgetown County

[Quack07]

I would pay the increase and enjoy it while it lasts. Around 7500 acres of timber company ground that I've hunted and had access to my whole life just got gobbled up by conservation groups.

[Highstrung]

I would double them.. Do y'all not see the ornate waste that these hunters are buying into? Ugly camo, atvs that cost as much as their trucks, it's not like their trucks aren't necked out, cell camera things, and the scopes that they hunt deer with.. It's not like they're really needed in our state. Turkey hunters are paying seven bucks a shell to shoot turkeys with optics on shotguns.