Barns for Sale
Finding barns for sale online is more difficult than you might expect. There is only a hand full of places listing barns for sale and most of those are not high-quality sites. There are many resources listed here to help you find what you are looking when buying or selling a barn.
Top Reasons You Find Barns for Sale
To help you in your search (and give you some ideas for search phrases) here are the top reasons you will find barns for sale. The reasons a barn is being sold usually falls into one of these categories:
- Profit – The barn was built (or bought) to be sold for a profit
- Moving/Relocating – The owners are simply moving or relocating a home or business
- Wood Reclamation – Old barns may be worth more when sold as reclaimed wood than as barns
Barns for Sale for Profit
Building and Selling Barns: Selling barns for profit is straightforward and simple. Just as with any real estate flip a barn can built on property to add value and that property can then be resold at a greater price to take the profit. Similarly, property with an existing old barn can be bought and the barn and property can be fixed up and resold at a nice profit.
Old Barns for Sale: There is also a market for antique barns that have been photographed, dismantled with the pieces marked, and stored so they can be sold and rebuilt on the buyer’s lot. This is a really interesting transaction altogether and a great way to maintain the heritage many people behold in old barns. There is actually money to be made selling old barns.
Barns for Sale Because of Relocation
Cheap Barns: You might find an excellent deal on a barn if you run across just the right situation. With that, let’s include death and estate sales in this reason for selling barns. Be on the lookout for bargain barns for sale and you might get lucky. Further, while I hate taking advantage of sticky situations, divorces are another reason for relocation sales. The lesson for this paragraph is to be on the lookout for divorce sales or estates sales that might include barns.
Barns for Sale as Reclaimed Wood
Old Barn Wood: Selling barns to break them down into the parts is sometimes profitable (not usually) but is often done as a cheap way of clearing the land. There are companies that buy old barns in order to carefully take them apart to sell the lumber as reclaimed wood, reclaimed lumber, antique lumber, or other such names. Common uses for the used barn lumber include reclaimed timbers for timber trusses and beams, siding, flooring, and furniture lumber and it is sold at an absolute premium.
Barns for Sale Online
(NOT sponsored listings)
Equine.com has barns for sale and their listing change fairly often.
Historic-Architecture.com lists barns for sale that have been dismantled and are ready to be rebuilt on your lot.
Timbermeisters.com builds, restores, and buys and sells vintage barns. They have a great inventory of barns for sale.
IowaBarnFoundation.org lists barns for sale and for donation because its mission is to preserve historical barns.
Barnsetc.co.uk has barns for sale in the UK “and abroad.”
Property.org.uk lists barns and other agricultural building for sale in the UK.
1st-for-French-Property.co.uk lists barns for sale in France.