Services
At Serca Realty, we bring lived experience and deep expertise to help family farms navigate succession planning, sales, and valuation with empathy and precision, ensuring your legacy’s value is protected.
Would you like a Broker who understands family farm dynamics, succession planning, and all the difficulties attached? Empathy, often said but perhaps not understood. We understand it because we lived it, we are still living it. We have an active family farm with 3 siblings that has just expanded, and like most farms, it has increased in value 10 fold in the last 15 years. Talk about understanding the family farm, the amazing parts of it and the obvious challenges. Layer this understanding with our lifetime in agriculture, the business, the land, the equipment, tax, share sales, value knowledge, negotiation, and value driven results, and you get Serca Realty. Whether it be a single quarter or a 100 quarter ongoing operation, our extensive network of uniquely specialized professionals has a proven track record of 15-20% reduction in net tax paid. If that isn’t worth a call and meeting we aren’t sure what is.
Planning
It has taken us years to develop and connect with the right advisors to help you create a plan tailored to your farm. This critical process will have the largest impact on getting the best possible results for both the overall value, and your net financial return for legacy farms, selling or not. This is a critical step to getting the 15-20% next tax savings.
Advisor Meetings:
We arrange and can sit in on these meetings to help navigate the conversations. Asking the right questions, and listening to the answers, to get everyone collaborating toward getting you the best results.
Bare Land
Having broker knowledge is vital for what might seem to be the simplest process. Selling bare land whether its 1 quarter or several, is where our offer platform (Openn Offers) and market knowledge shines, yielding the most successful results. There are several approaches and dynamics to establishing land value outside of just assessment and price pre acre. We use several pillars of demand to assess every package before we establish a value.
Full Farm Sales
We have a rare knowledge base that allows us to sell an entire farm. This would include land, bins, buildings, and equipment. Our agents had worked in the equipment industry for a combined 27 years and have sold well into the 100’s of thousands of acres of land.
Farm Company Sales
We have educated ourselves to be able to communicate the required information to be able to conduct share sales of ongoing farm corporations. This can yield very amazing tax benefits to the seller and opportunity for the buyer too. We have connected clients to advisors who have saved them as much as 20% on their tax bill owed after the sale.
Estate Sales and Valuations
This is usually an area that requires brokers to be involved not only because executors can often be disconnected from agriculture but for legal reasons for the will and estate and the beneficiaries, it is highly recommended to get third party values and have the broker handle the transaction. See Estate Sales tab for more information.
Land Management
We are able to keep our fingers on the pulse in Sk on the values of rent and how to negotiate successful leases for landlords and tenants. We negotiate leases, collect rent and keep you updated on the land.
Third-party Funding
We are connected with a private lender who can evaluate tight cash situations or judgements on title that doesn’t allow you to get traditional financing. Generally land equity is required for this to work out. This structure allows you to protect your equity but also keep farming the land with an option to buy back.