IDEAS TO FIND VACANT PARCELS?

[Karen Margrave]

We are developers/contractors in Orange County, CA. We want to find vacant parcels of land on which to build homes. Unfortunately, there are only a few listings of land on MLS, for a few reasons. 1 Most areas are already developed out and 2 Anyone with land probably doesn't think there's a market for spec houses so aren't pursuing actively listing.

We moved to So Cal from northern CA where we knew every parcel of ground in the city we lived. Down here, the area is far to vast to do that.

Does anyone have any ideas on finding vacant parcels? I've tried having the title company pull vacant parcels, but it ends up having every teeny piece that is used for medians on roads, etc. Any ideas?