As part of the services we offer to clients, we serve as a buyer’s agent in real estate transactions. With particular projects, our contributions extend well beyond closing.
We believe that real estate is an asset, an investment, and a vehicle that creates enduring impacts in the lives of individuals and families. Single properties belong to larger communities, ecosystems, and economies that extend far beyond land boundaries or bricks and mortar. The property rights traded and assumed are accompanied with property responsibilities. We try educate and inform a new landowner of what those responsibilities are creating space to hear their needs and desires for a property. On these types of projects, we work alongside landowners, new and generational, to create connections that improve land stewardship. We contribute in a project manager role offering expertise and capacity to help landowners achieve their goals.
Recently, we helped buyers purchase a family getaway in northwest Montana.
Post-closing, the landowners engaged us to help them better steward their land. We have connected them with a number of local organizations and will manage various projects on their property. We will provide the landowners with one timeline, one budget, and one critical path schedule consisting of each of the different relationships, objectives, and initiatives. As absentee owners, the landowners trust us to know the right partners, to move things along on the ground, and communicate the process and progress to them in a simple and succinct way. The types of projects and partners that make up the scope for this property include:
Swan Valley Connections - to explore the possibility of a cost-share arrangement to reduce fuel loads and improve forest health and also to better-bear proof the property (garbage, fruit trees, etc.)
Lake County Conservation District - to improve plant pollinator habitat on the property as part of a larger regional effort and to coordinate permitting a structured crossing over a year-round creek that transects the property
State of Montana DNRC - to better understand plans for adjacent public state land and to potentially coordinate land-health efforts across property lines
For other clients we coordinate with with additional partners such as local and state-wide land trusts that hold conservation easements, non-profits and agencies that provide soil health expertise, water rights leasing opportunities, wildlife management tools, and conservation programs, USDA NRCS, state agricultural extension agencies, watershed groups, landowner collaboratives, and more. At Topos & Anthros, we believe that real estate and conservation work best in tandem, and that property can honor heritage and strengthen community. Providing project management services to landowners aligns with our conviction. By joining alongside our clients to simplify land ownership, we provide them with comprehensive, individualized solutions that minimize risk, capitalize on opportunities, and ultimately achieve their specific desired outcomes. In doing so, we create opportunities for others and help our clients forge meaningful connections and build lasting relationships.