The Aquidneck Land Trust has a conservation real estate buyer program.

Conservation real estate buyer programs have been used for years to match conservation-minded buyers with available properties that either currently have conservation restrictions on them or are eligible to be conserved. The Land Trust can help buyers and their advisors identify whether a property they are considering purchasing has the appropriate conservation values that would enable them to donate conservation restrictions to the Land Trust and receive the potential income, estate and/or property tax benefits.

In conservation real estate transactions, the Aquidneck Land Trust turns to "conservation buyers" and "conservation sellers," and often their representatives, including real estate agents, to assist with land protection projects such as ensuring that an already conserved parcel ends up in the hands of a conservation-minded buyer, or to assist it in protecting an unconserved parcel that it could not protect on its own. Often, because of limited conservation funding, parcels preserved in these transactions would otherwise be lost to due to acute development pressures on Aquidneck Island.

The Aquidneck Land Trust routinely helps people answer questions regarding properties they are considering purchasing and keeps a list of buyers seeking properties with conservation values or restrictions.

Please contact Ted Clement with your questions regarding the purchase or sale of conservation properties on Aquidneck Island at 401/849-2799 ext. 12.