Unfenced
A vertical land-transaction screening tool that uses public geographic data to identify parcels for sale bordering public land. By spatially matching parcel boundaries against public land layers, it helps buyers find parcels adjacent to open space.
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Unfenced is best suited to buyers looking for outdoor recreation land, rural properties, or land for self-building/off-grid living, as well as real estate agents
Unfenced supports searching by ZIP code or state, requires no account registration and is completely free
Unfenced is classified on Product Hunt under Home, Maps and Outdoors
Adjacent listings (13,600) account for about 2% of total listings (700,000), indicating that properties meeting the condition of bordering public land are scarce
The BLM maintains a nationwide land ownership map (Surface Management Agency data) and is one of the data sources Unfenced uses to compare public land boundaries
Unfenced claims to update listings weekly, but parcel boundary and public land data may be updated less frequently, and its precision ceiling is constrained by the quality of each county's parcel data
Unfenced checks about 700,000 U.S. property listings every week
Unfenced compares listings against official public land maps to find about 13,600 homes and parcels that truly border public land
Unfenced's adjacency determination is measured precisely based on county parcel boundaries and calculates the shared boundary length (in feet)
Unfenced provides supporting information for each listing such as public land area, elevation, road access, flood risk zones and wildfire hazard levels
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Unfenced is best suited to buyers looking for outdoor recreation land, rural properties, or land for self-building/off-grid living, as well as real estate agents
50%UnverifiedUnfenced is classified on Product Hunt under Home, Maps and Outdoors
50%UnverifiedAdjacent listings (13,600) account for about 2% of total listings (700,000), indicating that properties meeting the condition of bordering public land are scarce
50%UnverifiedThe BLM maintains a nationwide land ownership map (Surface Management Agency data) and is one of the data sources Unfenced uses to compare public land boundaries
50%UnverifiedUnfenced claims to update listings weekly, but parcel boundary and public land data may be updated less frequently, and its precision ceiling is constrained by the quality of each county's parcel data
50%UnverifiedUnfenced checks about 700,000 U.S. property listings every week
50%UnverifiedUnfenced compares listings against official public land maps to find about 13,600 homes and parcels that truly border public land
50%UnverifiedUnfenced's adjacency determination is measured precisely based on county parcel boundaries and calculates the shared boundary length (in feet)
50%UnverifiedUnfenced provides supporting information for each listing such as public land area, elevation, road access, flood risk zones and wildfire hazard levels
50%UnverifiedUnfenced supports searching by ZIP code or state, requires no account registration and is completely free
50%UnverifiedUnfenced is better suited as a lead source for preliminary screening, and final decisions still need to combine on-site inspection and title verification.
50%UnverifiedUnfenced's entry point is to spatially match parcel boundaries with public land layers, directly picking out parcels for sale adjacent to public land.
50%UnverifiedUnfenced is a tool specifically for filtering out parcels for sale that are adjacent to public land, and it sparked discussion in the Show HN section of Hacker News.
50%UnverifiedUnfenced's market coverage is limited by data availability, being easy to do in regions with open data and a high degree of digitization while very hard to cover elsewhere, so it is more likely to be a small and beautiful tool serving specific regions rather than a nationwide platform.
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