Experience in purchasing forest stands
Libor Strakoš The article deals with experience of an experienced person interested in purchase of forest properties (a forest stand including the parcel). The process leading to possible purchase of a forest property itself can be divided into several phases as viewed from the point of a potential investor. The first phase represents a search for such a property and retrieving basic information on the stand or a complex of stands respectively. The next phase represents getting detailed data for a reliable price identification (Forest Management Plan, ownership identification, trade and technological conditions, including thoroughgoing on-site inspection, e.t.c.). In the last phase, the contract is concluded and fulfilled. A specific position in the current market with forest stands is occupied by smaller properties sized less than fifty hectares. The whole described process often is very fast, however sometimes rather entails a fair risk to the owner the contract will not be fulfilled. This part of the market is rather dim, as these purchases do not aim at development of a long-term management but at mere ambition to get a fast profit, often on the brink of law.