Internal data from Lands of America shows $238 million in land, homesites and other rural acreage for sale for sale in the Cyclone State. This represents some 37,888 acres of land for sale in the state. The most expensive property listed for sale on Lands of America recently was $4 million, although the median price for land for sale in Iowa was $402,684. The average price of land for sale in Iowa was $502,080. There was 2,678 acres of sold land in Iowa recorded in May 2018 through the Lands of America sales program. This reflects an 18 percent decrease in sales activity over the previous month. The total value of this sold land and rural real estate was $19.2 million. With its dizzying elevation extreme of a mere 1, 190 feet, pancake-flat Iowa's main outdoor attractions are of the horizontal persuasion. Two national scenic byways thread the state, while any number of country roads will take you through a land of farms, covered bridges and quiet towns. Fishing and hunting are both popular in the state, with the Missouri and Mississippi rivers bithg offering the chance to cast for trout, catfish and walleye and bass. As befits a state with excellent hunting for big and small game like deer, waterfowl and wild turkey,
hunting land was the most common type of land for sale in Iowa. Of the 99 counties in Iowa, Appanoose County had the most land and farms for sale. In terms of size, Iowa is the country's 26th-largest state, covering an area of 56,276 square miles (36 million acres). In its entirety, 55,857 square miles (99 percent) is made up of land, while the remaining 416 square miles is made up of water.
