What Bill Steigerwaldt Has Learned About Land and Value Over a 40-Year Appraisal Career

Bill Steigerwaldt learned to value land long before he learned to appraise it.

His father became a forester in Michigan in the 1940s. After a decade as a forester for the State of Wisconsin, he struck out on his own, building a forestry business and [...]

Each year, LandVest processes enough paper trip tickets generated through timber harvesting and log transportation activities that, if laid end to end, they would stretch roughly 13 miles. That volume of paperwork has long been a necessary part of moving wood from the forest to the mill, but it also reflects a workflow that has remained [...]

LandVest is pleased to welcome Joshua McDorman as Project Manager, Mitigation Banking & Environmental Crediting, further expanding the firm’s expertise in natural capital, conservation, and environmental markets. Josh joins the [...]

LandVest is helping shape a growing market at the intersection of investment performance and environmental stewardship with the recent sale of a large-scale mitigation bank portfolio—an asset class gaining traction among institutional and private investors alike.

The Appalachia Mitigation Bank Portfolio, brokered on behalf of Ecosystem [...]

2025 marked another remarkable chapter for LandVest and our Land Investments group. Throughout the year, we pushed forward a diverse portfolio of projects that stretched across the country and touched every corner of the land and natural-capital.

LandVests Institutional Land Group had another remarkable year finishing 2024 with $1 Billion in sales on 445,000 acres in 15 states and 3 countries ($2,225 per acre). This compares with last years performance of $775 million on 279,000 acres across 20 states.

LandVest had another productive year in 2023, closing nearly $800 million in sales within our Institutional Land Group. We represented our clients across 19 states transacting almost 280,000 acres of land. The market was mixed in 2023 across sectors with strong demand for scaled institutional forestland portfolios, while the market for retail and mid-sized land properties softened.

What does cutting-edge artificial intelligence have to do with a walk in the woods? To Steve Hawkes, Vice President of LandVests Forest Resources division, its the future.