Land, bought fairly and sold plainly — the neighborly way.
Since 1990, Open Lands has given families, trusts, and estates an alternative to the auction tent and the brokered grind — land bought fairly, sold plainly, and closed when we say. Hundreds of transactions across sixteen states, from Oklahoma outward.
Our work since 1990
L’Esprit Arabian Horse Complex
A world-renowned equestrian estate that hosted international dignitaries for two decades. Sold within 60 days — and kept from becoming a golf course.
The Meng Family Farm
A fifty-year purebred Angus operation, transitioned in under 90 days with a 1031 tax-deferred exchange that protected the family’s position.
The Skelly Hunting Retreat
William Skelly’s historic retreat, facing foreclosure. Open Lands purchased and managed it through bankruptcy — protecting the lowlands while limiting development on the uplands.
Nine Bar Ranch
A media-family ranch running two thousand head of Santa Gertrudis. Closed in under 30 days; the buyers included A.J. Foyt and Clay Walker.
The Stealth Radar Range
A Reagan-era Lockheed testing facility with two runways. Re-developed for uses conducive to rural Texas countryside and restored to wildlife habitat.
Wounded Knee
The Eugene Worrell estate — historic homes, a lake, rare Belted Galloway cattle. A turnkey sale, closed in under 30 days.
Hundreds of transactions across sixteen states. A sampling, by acreage:
Oklahoma — Beggs 11,000 · Tahlequah 6,000 · Okmulgee 5,700 · Catoosa 4,000 · Oologah 3,500 · Ramona 2,200 · Okesa 1,200 · Pawhuska 1,100 · Mounds 700 · Bartlesville 660 · Collinsville 610 · Claremore 500 · Norman 500 · Wagoner 440 · Ardmore 385 · Skiatook 735 · Ada 220 · Sand Springs 200 · Kansas 200 · Adair 170 · Jay 170
Texas — Hempstead 3,900 · Meridian 2,800 · Groesbeck 2,700 · Canyon 1,870 · Stephenville 1,335 · Waelder 1,200 · DeKalb 1,000 · Columbus 930 · Decatur 805 · San Antonio 650 · Santo 320 · Burnet 295 · Winnsboro 250 · Yancey 250 · Cleburne 200
Missouri — Richland 1,600 · Bolivar 1,200 · Farmington 840 · Cabool 630 · Fair Grove 630 · Aurora 545 · Springfield 400 · Miller 275 · Seymour 275 · Stotts City 230 · Strafford 230 · Rogersville 90 · Sparta 80
Virginia — Charlottesville 1,000 · Louisa 780 · Harrisonburg 500 · Lexington 500 · Scottsville 430 · Marshall 300
Colorado — Conifer 760 · Elbert (Diamond D Ranch) 690 Kentucky — LaGrange 690 · Bowling Green 684
Arizona — Kingman 3,000 Vermont — Middlebury 2,000 New York — Albany 505 · Rhinebeck 385
Pennsylvania — Lewiston 670 · Meadville 160 Arkansas — Beaver Lake 200 · Westville 150 Tennessee — Jackson 540
Turnkey sales with equipment and livestock included · 1031 exchanges and deferred structures · joint ventures with minimum-return guarantees · estates, trusts, and bankruptcies handled with discretion · most major closings in 30–90 days.
How we work
Plainly. The price is the price and the reasons behind it are stated out loud. Surveys before handshakes. You’ll walk the land with someone who knows where the corners are.
Fairly. We intend to be buying and selling in these counties for decades, so every deal has to survive being talked about at the co-op. No auction fever, no pressure clocks.
Directly. We deal as principals — our own land, our own word, our own signature. When a place isn’t for us, we’ll say so plainly and point you toward the right person if we know one. The number below rings Dean.
Flexibly. On select tracts we carry the paper ourselves — a fair rate, plain terms, and a handshake that means something.
Selling your land?
Open Lands was founded in 1990 to give landowners, families, trusts, and estates an alternative to traditional brokered sales. If you have land to sell — an inherited quarter-section, an estate to settle, a place the family can’t keep up — we buy fairly, close fast, and take it as it sits. No commissions, no staging, no strangers’ boots for months.
The record above shows the kinds of situations we’ve closed for thirty-five years. A conversation costs nothing and obligates nothing.
About Open Lands
“The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Open Lands was founded in 1990 by Dean Williams, a fifth-generation livestock farmer, on a simple idea: land changes hands best between people who respect it. We buy, improve, and sell rural land and country places across Oklahoma — and where the situation calls us, beyond — with transactions typically from the low six figures to several million dollars.
Dean Williams, Founder — fifth-generation farmer; Western Illinois University (BA, MA), Georgetown Law (JD), Stanford Graduate School of Business. David Holden, Of Counsel — business transaction lawyer and advisor.
Contact
Call or text 918-513-2072, or write dean@bluegoat.com.