And forty acres or bigger. All year road gain access to, had power running right by, was not all swamp or butchered in the woods department. Include in a view, long road frontage that implied simple sculpting, dividing for resale was possible and a greater per unit Maine land acreage rate might be justified.
Quantity and quality together on Maine land indicates the rate is greater. However even at $1000 an acre for the bigger Maine land properties, parcels the acreages are still way way under valued. Aroostook county, Northern Washington and Penobscot counties are sleeping giants for Maine land that can be bought right.
You can not buy an acre of land for $1000 unless it has significant problems. Because it was never bank funded, not title browsed to round up all the heirs to sign off. And the home lines are a huge unknown. What Land for sale ? Or the Maineland will not soil test, support a septic tank and essentially was traded for two pigs and a chicken.
That lacked the resources to run it through an attorney. To have a land legal representative in Maine straighten out title defects of heirs not signing off that are concealed, prowling in the background. Poised, prepared to raise their unsightly head. The build-able, smaller sized Maine land lots expense you more to enter into the ballgame.
Who would buy a piece of low-cost, low cost Maine junk property, ugly land? If that is all you can manage, you take what you can get and try to improve. Make it better with including drain, generating gravel. And adding water, sewage system, power, energies as you can manage.