Broker and auctioneer Bob Pifer has a busy auction season lined up. “We probably have about 15, 20 more sales this year than the last previous years.” Land values have remained stable. “We haven’t really seen any drop,” said Pifer. “If it’s marginal land maybe it’s gone down a little bit and a little bit tougher to sell, but if it’s still good crop land it’s still holding its values.” Pifer, who is in the Grand Forks office for Pifer’s Auction and Real Estate, says they’ve actually had record sales in parts of North Dakota where there was pent-up demand for the land.
