How much money is Stanford’s land worth?
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, studied at Stanford University

Stanford owns 8180 acres of land, including 4017 acres in unincorporated Santa Clara County, 2701 acres in unincorporated San Mateo County, 1161 acres in Palo Alto, and 301 acres scattered among Woodside, Menlo Park, and Portola Valley. Valuing the land in unincorporated areas conservatively at $1 million/acre and in incorporated areas at $3 million/acre yields a value of about $11 billion. This is extremely misleading, however, since Stanford cannot sell any of its land, and thus it can be argued that the fair market value of Stanford’s land is $0. Even the land occupied by outside entities (

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, B.S. Engineering, Stanford University

Such a good question I even googled it. Stanford covers 8180 acres, 60% is undeveloped but some of it houses a high end shopping mall and a major hospital.

Residential plots in the neighborhood run $1,00,000+ an acre. So I ballparked it at $8.2-ish billion worth of land.

It’s way more complicated than that of course, beginning with the fact that some of the high value per acre in the neighborhood is due to being Stanford’s neighbor and because they’ve tied up so much inventory. Some of the land is under very favorable long term leases to Palo Alto, so that land isn’t worth much til the leases ru

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, studied at Stanford University (1997)

Billions and billions. Literally. I don’t know the exact amount of land that Stanford owns, but it owns alot and it is all centrally located in the most expensive real estate market in the world (Silicon Valley). Office buildings, land, that you don’t think is owned by Stanford (as it is not on campus) is actually owned by Stanford. The Stanford endowment is some $25 billion or so—so I’m sure that they have billions of dollars worth of land.

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Check eBay for it’s collector value. Other than that it’s worthless. Of course US currency will soon be the same way if we just keep printing money to give away.

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As a former property consultant and an Investor myself, I am a bit knowledgable about buying land. A piece of Land for investment would mean a plot. While buying a plot or any property, golden rule is LOCATION. Since it is for investment, it should be:-

  1. At an area where legal registry is possible (avoid unauthorised colonies)
  2. Escape fraud (builders who promise delivery but possessions are delayed for years). How? Get cross consultations from a half a dozen Property agents/dealers. Research about builders previous projects by visiting and talking to old customers (don't rely on internet alone)
  3. Buy
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Hard to beat Manhattan for value. Beads for a whole island, current value $1.75 trillion. Cost of beads, about 24 dollars.

But the highest value purchase, in terms of current value, might well be the purchase of the West, in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This treaty, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico. By its terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including parts of present-day Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah, to the United States. The cost to America was $15 million and the assumption of all claims citi

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From the question ("Is going to Stanford or Harvard worth over $250,000 worth of debt? (No financial aid)"), it's difficult to tell whether you're intending to ask a hypothetical or asking for practical advice.

On a practical level: You won't go $250,000 into debt at Harvard. The Office of Admissions and Financial Aid. Harvard will not ask you to pay anything beyond what they believe can be contributed by (1) your parents and (2) your own term-time work. Their policy is that any student who so chooses will be able to graduate debt-free. And in fact, less than 25% of graduating seniors graduate

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In commercial real estate, the value of a developed property can be divided into two parts: 1) the value of the building(s) that sit on the land, and 2) the value of the land itself.

To calculate the second part, the land value (or, as we call it, the Residual Land Value), one first determines

A) what price someone will pay for both the building and the land together,

and then

B) what it would cost to build that same building, including developer’s profit.

Subtract B) from A), and you get the Residual Land Value.

Note that A) can swing up and down wildly and rapidly depending on the economy. On the

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Very good question. I have no clue. And I doubt too many people actually do know. I wouldn't believe too much of what anyone might say and that incl catholic priests of whom the large majority have even seen the front door of the Vatican let alone pass through it. But ponder this - roughly 4500 people work in the Vatican. ( correct me if I'm wrong) what do they all do. Who pays for them. Salaries bonuses etc etc. What benefits did they receive for working with any evil leaders. Hitler for one.

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