Selling Land or a Farm Near Leesburg, VA

Leesburg, Virginia

Leesburg is Loudoun County's seat, sitting where Route 7 and Route 15 cross near the Potomac River. It is also, geographically, the hinge point of the county — rural farmland to the north and west around Lucketts and Waterford, and the eastern data-center corridor pressing in from the other direction. Hamilton, just west on Route 7, still carries the quieter valley character, while land closer to town increasingly sits in the shadow of the industrial buildout further east.

That split shapes who's buying here. Some are still looking for a working farm or a piece of rural acreage near Lucketts or Waterford, drawn by the history and the land itself. Others, or their representatives, are looking at Leesburg-area parcels specifically for what they might be worth to a data-center developer — a different conversation entirely, and one every landowner near this corridor should understand before entertaining an offer.

The land around Leesburg

Ordinary rural land around Leesburg trades in a similar range to the rest of Loudoun's countryside — vacant land has had a median sale price of roughly $525,000 to $542,000 countywide in recent years, with improved farms running well above that depending on acreage and use.

Leesburg is also where Loudoun's data-center land values have hit their peak. A 97-acre site here sold for $615 million, roughly $6.3 million per acre, a record for the county. Countywide, data-center-zoned land averaged $3.76 million per acre in the county's February 2026 assessment, up $1.4 million per acre in a single year, and data centers now make up roughly 26 percent of Loudoun's real estate tax base. That is a fundamentally different market than ordinary farmland. See our full data-center land value breakdown.

The county itself is reconsidering how fast this goes. The Board of Supervisors voted 6-1 to have staff draft a pause option on new data-center applications, with a report due in September 2026; the County Attorney has cautioned that a full moratorium likely isn't legal under Virginia's Dillon Rule. Whatever the outcome, it will affect how, and where, the next wave of offers reaches landowners near Leesburg. Read our data-center land guide for the full picture, and see what to do if you've already gotten an offer.

Head west and the parcels get bigger and cheaper fast — first toward Purcellville, then into the horse country around Middleburg.

The two land markets a Leesburg owner is priced against

Loudoun is really two land markets wearing one county's name, and which one a parcel sits in decides almost everything about its value.

Ordinary rural land moves in single digits a year. The county's 2026 assessment put rural land up between 5.9 and 8.6 per cent. Vacant-land median sale prices have run around $525,000 to $542,000 across 2024 and 2025, on somewhere between 44 and 77 land sales a year, with equestrian and estate farms trading between $1.5 million and $8 million and occasional outliers far above that.

Land with a genuine data-center path is a different asset. Data-center-zoned land averaged $3.76 million an acre in the county's February 2026 assessment, up $1.4 million an acre year over year, and one 97-acre Leesburg assemblage sold for $615 million, about $6.3 million an acre.

Power, zoning and proximity to a substation or highway are what separate the two. Most parcels are firmly in the first market, and pricing one as though it sits in the second is how a listing goes stale.

Selling land or a farm near Leesburg

If you own farmland near Leesburg, know which conversation you're actually in. If a developer or land agent approaches you about a data-center-related purchase or option, the numbers involved are on an entirely different scale than an ordinary farm sale, but so are the complications, and an option agreement is not a closing. If you're simply selling a working farm or rural tract to continue as farmland, Loudoun's land-use assessment and any recorded easements will shape your rollback tax exposure and your buyer pool the same way they do elsewhere in the county.

We cover Leesburg as part of Loudoun County and can help you understand which market your property actually sits in before you respond to anyone. Tell us about your property.