Land Partners

What Land Partners does

Land Partners, LLC is a privately held real estate brokerage firm headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois, that specializes exclusively in the sale, acquisition, and valuation of vacant land across the Greater Chicagoland and Northern Indiana markets (with broader Illinois coverage indicated on its website). The firm was co-founded in 1997 by Larry Dickstein and David Loeb after both progressed to partner at Barry Mogul and Associates; Chris Tiedeman, who has more than 25 years of residential land acquisition and development experience, subsequently joined as the third principal. The team is small (firmographic range 11-50 employees) and operates on traditional brokerage economics, with three named senior brokers supported by administrative staff.

The firm's core offerings are three intertwined services: land sales brokerage (agricultural land, residential building lots, investment properties); land acquisition representation for buyers; and land valuation analysis. An active listings portfolio and a complimentary "Free Analysis" intake form support client acquisition. The business is fundamentally a relationship-driven intermediary business, with no proprietary technology platform, API, SDK, or app disclosed in the input. Distribution is through direct broker engagement, a long-standing referral network, and a modest informational website; pricing is per-transaction commission, negotiated case-by-case, and the initial consultation is offered free.

Customers span national production home builders (Toll Brothers, D.R. Horton/Cambridge, Lennar, Pulte, Taylor Morrison, K. Hovnanian, David Weekley, MI Homes, NVR/Ryan), regional developers (The Jacobs Companies, Wingspan Development, Huron Group, Turnstone, Fairfield, Fiduciary Real Estate Development, Emerald Homes, LB A...), financial institutions (Bank of America, Fifth Third Bank) holding or disposing of land, and individual/commercial landowners. The firm reports it has transacted "tens of thousands of acres" for both commercial and residential use and that each professional averages over 25 years of real estate experience spanning multiple market cycles.

Name

Land Partners

Legal name

LAND PARTNERS, LLC

Website

https://landpartnersllc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Land Partners, LLC is a privately held Arlington Heights, Illinois real estate brokerage that specializes exclusively in the sale, acquisition, and valuation of vacant land for residential builders, developers, financial institutions, and landowners across Greater Chicagoland and Northern Indiana.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Land Brokerage Services

NAICS

Offices of Real Estate Agents and Brokers (53121), Offices of Real Estate Agents and Brokers (5312)

SIC

Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others) (6531)

akta.pro primary industry

Transitional/Development Land Brokerage (Entitled, In-Path-of-Growth) (BPAJADAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Land & Development Site Brokerage (BPAJABAG), Land Brokerage (Raw Land & Development Sites) (FSAEAJAD)

Keywords

• Vacant land brokerage
• Land acquisition services
• Land valuation services
• Residential lot sales
• Real estate advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

Arlington Heights

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Land Brokerage Commissions: Traditional real estate brokerage model generating revenue through commissions on completed land sale and acquisition transactions. The company acts as an intermediary between buyers and sellers of vacant land, earning fees upon successful transaction closings.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Land Partners is a specialized real estate brokerage firm that brokers the sale, acquisition, and valuation of vacant land across the Greater Chicagoland and Northern Indiana areas. Services cover agricultural land, residential building lots, and investment property, with brokers acting as intermediaries between landowners and buyers/developers to negotiate and close transactions.

Product overview

Land Partners, LLC is a real estate brokerage firm offering a unified suite of services centered on vacant land transactions. The core offerings consist of land sales, land acquisition, and land valuation services, which work together to serve clients throughout the transaction lifecycle—from initial consultation through closing. The company also maintains an active listings portfolio of available land parcels and offers a free analysis sub-product to provide property owners with initial market insights. Services are focused on the Greater Chicagoland and Northern Indiana areas, with particular expertise in agricultural land, residential building lots, and investment properties.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Land Sales Services
• Land Acquisition Services
• Land Valuation Services
• Free Analysis

Quantifiable outcome

• Tens of thousands of acres of land transacted for commercial and residential use

Named customers11 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Regional players

• @properties: Large Chicago-area residential real estate brokerage founded in 1995. While primarily a residential brokerage, @properties operates in the same Greater Chicagoland market with overlapping builder and developer relationships and adjacent land/new-development sales capabilities.
• Baird & Warner: Established Chicago-based real estate firm with a strong new-construction and land-adjacent practice. Operates in the same geographic market as Land Partners and serves many of the same national home builders on land and lot acquisition.

Broad incumbents

• CBRE Group: Global commercial real estate services giant with land and capital markets advisory capabilities. Represents the largest-scale competitor that could win Midwest land brokerage mandates from institutional clients if a national deal warrants it.
• Cushman & Wakefield: Global full-service real estate firm with land and capital markets practices serving home builders and developers. Comparable in that it offers land brokerage as part of a broader service portfolio rather than as a sole focus.
• Colliers International: International commercial real estate services firm with land and investment sales capabilities. Competes for the same institutional and developer land mandates across the Midwest on a national platform basis.
• SVN (Sperry Van Ness) Commercial Advisors: Commercial real estate franchise with land and development site brokerage among its service lines. Competes for similar builder and developer land assignments through local franchisees in the same Midwestern geography.

Emerging players

• AcreTrader: Online farmland and land investment platform connecting buyers and sellers of acreage. Represents the technology-enabled alternative that landowners may use as an alternative to traditional brokerages like Land Partners for certain asset classes.

Others

• LandWatch / Lands of America (CoStar Group): Leading online marketplaces for vacant land, rural properties, and acreage listings. Comparable as a channel through which landowners list and builders source parcels, providing market data infrastructure that competes with brokers' traditional information asymmetry.

Direct peers

• Mason Morse Ranch Company: Niche land and ranch brokerage specializing in vacant land transactions across multiple states. Most directly comparable in business model: a small specialized land-only brokerage serving landowners and developers through a transaction-fee model.
• Republic Ranches: Specialized ranch and land real estate brokerage focused exclusively on vacant land transactions. Closely comparable in specialization, client type, and revenue model, operating in a different geography (Texas-focused) but competing in the same niche.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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