For financial advisors · estate planners · trust officers · CPAs

What do we do
with the land?

Sooner or later, a client asks you the one question their portfolio can't answer. The Advisor's Guide to Selling Client Land gives you a complete, defensible framework for answering it.

Free. No obligation. No pressure.

The largest intergenerational transfer of land in American history is already underway — and it lands on your desk.

$124T
Wealth transferring through 2048Cerulli Associates
$25T
Of that total, tied up in real estateCerulli Associates
60
Median age of a U.S. farm operatorUSDA

What's inside

A framework, not a sales pitch.

Written for the professionals who carry the weight of the disposition decision — and honest about when auction is the right tool, and when it isn't.

01The conversation you're about to have

How to answer "what do we do with the land?" with a structured framework instead of a reflexive "we'll list it and see what happens."

02Why land is unlike any other asset

Illiquidity, heterogeneity, carrying cost, emotion, family dynamics, and fiduciary exposure — and why they compound more painfully than most advisors anticipate.

03The fiduciary case for auction

How an open, documented, competitive process becomes an unassailable prudent-investor record under the Uniform Prudent Investor Act. The process itself is the defense.

04When auction is the wrong tool

Honest limitations — plus the alternatives that aren't a sale at all: partial sales, conservation easements, tenant farmers, and intra-family buyouts.

Every advisor owes their client an honest conversation about whether auction could be the right path — and that conversation, when it is the right fit, is one of the most powerful instruments a fiduciary can deploy.

— The Advisor's Guide to Selling Client Land

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© 2026 Trophy Properties & Auction. All rights reserved. This guide is provided for educational and informational purposes and does not constitute legal, tax, or investment advice. Advisors and clients should consult their own professional counsel regarding specific circumstances. Trophy Properties & Auction is a licensed real estate brokerage and auction company in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Illinois. Trophy Properties & Auction fully supports the principles of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act.