I manufacture fishing tackle and I have noticed HUGE increases in raw materials.

Quick example: the inside or any apartment\house\office is never finished, meaning you get just raw walls, no paint, no doors, flooring, no anything, besides the windows, not even electricity, the electric cables are to be found somehere in the corridor and every owner gets it extended to his\her appartment.

Raw land development is not for the inexperienced.

His raw and blunt posts are a refreshing addition to BP and will be missed.

A developer has approached me about borrowing $200,000 on raw land.

I just finished my first direct mail campaign for raw land or vacant land and I'm running into this exact same issue.

Free but it's just a ton of  raw data.

If you want to invest here you want to focus on raw land or turnkey construction sales, because you would be really lucky to get 1% on anything right now - that's how hot the market is.

Annually that equates to $60kAssuming you can secure investments at 8% Cash on Cash return annually, you would need $750k in raw capital to achieve that today.  

The raw data is nominal prices, so once in a while I'll dredge up inflation data and look at the inflation adjusted (real) prices.