Working with

individuals,

organizations,

and their advisors

to achieve optimal

conservation and

development

outcomes

SOLUTIONS TAILORED
TO YOUR PARTICULAR NEEDS

Scalable Services

• Complete, turn-key conservation and development solutions
   
• Outsourcing of specific tasks or projects
   
• Adding conservation and land-use planning expertise to your existing project team
   

• Landowners

• Land Sellers

• Land Buyers

• Developers

• Attorneys

• Realtors

• Financial
  Planners

• Architects
  Engineers/
  Surveyors

Land Owners
Open Space Equity can help you ascertain your property's conservation and development potential, develop a master plan for responsibly realizing your long-term goals, and guide you through the process of protecting and improving your land in a manner that minimizes environmental impacts and maximizes value. Find out about the possibilities for your property.
 

Land Sellers
In the current real estate market, conservation easement tax benefits can be a great way to derive value from your property prior to its sale. By generating cash from income tax savings, you may be able to price your property more attractively and facilitate its prompt sale--without diminishing your net financial position. Ask us how.
 

Land-Buyers
Understanding the potential conservation easement tax benefits associated with properties can help you make more informed purchasing decisions and derive more value from your real estate investment. By taking advantage of conservation easement tax benefits, you can free up money for construction or renovation, or purchase a more substantial property than would otherwise be possible within your established acquisition budget. Learn more about your options.
 

Developers
Incorporating conservation principles and components into a development design can simplify the land-use permitting process, differentiate your project in a challenging real estate market, attract buyers, improve profitability, and enhance your business reputation. Talk to us about your current or planned projects.
 

Attorneys
Whether you're representing a client in the purchase or sale of a property, handling a conservation easement, or seeking regulatory approvals for an environmentally responsible development proposal, Open Space Equity can help you advance your clients' interests and stay focused on the legal aspects of their matters. We can help plan and manage field work, research the history of properties, identify creative development opportunities, document conservation values to substantiate tax benefits, craft reserved rights for conservation easements, and guide conservation-minded development proposals through the land-use permitting process. How may we help you and your clients?
 

Realtors
In a changing real estate market, there's often a disconnect between what buyers and sellers perceive to be realistic prices. Conservation easement tax benefits can be an effective tool for bridging that gap. By helping your clients who are selling capture pre-sale value through conservation tax benefits, we can make your pricing recommendations more attractive. We can also help your buying clients expand their purchasing budgets by gaining a better understanding of the value they can capture through conservation easement tax benefits. Find out how conserving land can help you close more deals.
 

Architects, Engineers & Surveyors
Open Space Equity can help you incorporate conservation components into projects and streamline the regulatory review process. We can also represent your clients' projects before land-use commissions, allowing you to focus on your core area of expertise. Talk to us about getting back your weekday evenings and moving your projects forward.
 

Financial Advisors
Your clients' land holdings may represent their most significant opportunity to improve their tax positions. Open Space Equity can help you determine the scope of tax benefit that may be derived from a particular real estate asset, and, should your client elect to preserve a portion of their land, develop and implement a complete conservation easement plan. Let us help your clients reduce their income and estate tax burdens.
 

Community Housing Organizations
Because open space preservation tends to drive up real estate prices by reducing supply and increasing demand, it's important that land conservation efforts be counterbalanced with economically diverse housing. We can help you develop and implement plans to create modestly priced homes using conservation principles, which can reduce site development costs, yield lower maintenance costs for residents, and make new homes more palatable to the surrounding community. Contact us about your current or planned project.
 

Land Trusts
Most conservation easements commit land trusts to a permanent, ongoing relationship with a property--one that can create problems when owners claim illegitimate tax benefits, encroach on conservation areas, or learn they can't make crucial property improvements. The key to successful long-term outcomes is good up-front planning, but few land trusts have the resources to underwrite the scope of work needed to develop and implement a good property master plan. Open Space Equity can work directly with your easement donors to develop conservation plans that protect important resources while allowing flexibility for responsible uses and compatible property improvements. Find out how we can help you and your easement donors prevent problems and forge successful long-term relationships.