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82 +/- ACRE FARMLAND AUCTION

MON. FEB 16, 2026 @ 6:00 PM


Auction held offsite at Pleasant Senior Center @ 1036 Owens Rd. W. Marion, OH 43302


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82 +/- ACRE FARMLAND AUCTION

PLEASANT TWP. – S. MARION CO.

LIVE AUCTION-NO BUYERS PREMIUM

4 PARCELS- RANGING FROM 1.3 TO 41.1 +/- ACRES

 MON. FEB 16, 2026 @ 6:00 PM


Auction held offsite at Pleasant Senior Center @ 1036 Owens Rd. W. Marion, OH 43302. Across from Pleasant Schools & Fire Dept.

Owners are retiring from their lifelong farming career. Parcels being offered, are all systematically tiled with high fertility levels. Parcels have been farmed for years and have fertility and harvest data available.

PARCEL #1 (Auditor Parcel #250160010904): 1.31 +/- acre potential building lot with 219’+/- of road frontage on Somerlot Hoffman Rd. W. Marion, lot size is 219’+/- x 252’+/- currently tillable ground. Taxes are $25.12 per yr. based on CAUV. Soil type is mainly Glynwood Silt with Pewamo assoc.


PARCEL #2 (Auditor Parcel #250160010903): 1.35 +/- acre potential building lot with 247’+/- road frontage on Somerlot Hoffman Rd W. marion, lot size is 247’+/- x 252’+/- currently tillable ground. Taxes are $46.14 per yr. based on CAUV. Predominately Pewamo silty clay.


PARCEL #3 (Auditor Parcel #250160010900):  38.445 +/- productive acres with 220.8’+/- ft of road frontage on Somerlot Hoffman Rd. W. Marion. Taxes are $749.36 per yr. Mainly all tillable acres with Glynwood and Pewamo assoc. soils


PARCEL #4 (Auditor #250160010902): 41.11 Productive acres with 304.2’+/- road frontage on Somerlot Hoffman Rd., W. Marion, mainly all tillable acres with Gooding ditch waterway on property that was recently cleaned and cleared for good farming practices. Predominately Pewamo and Glynwood silt soils with Blount association. Taxes are $1,098.70 per yr.


TERMS & CONDITIONS: The successful bidder(s) will be required to enter into a purchase contract at the conclusion of the auction. We will require $5,000.00 down each on tracts #1 & #2, and $10,000.00 down each on tracts # 3 and #4 or $25,000.00 down as a whole (non-refundable) payment due at the conclusion of the auction with the balance due in 45 days. Your bidding is not conditional upon financing, inspections or appraisals. Be sure you have arranged financing, if needed, and are capable of paying certified funds at closing. Assignments of any purchase contracts are conditional on the bidder remaining jointly liable on the contract with the assignee. Taxes pro-rated to closing date. Tracts selling subject to all legal highways, easements, restrictions, agreements and rights-of-way of record, and any lease, grant, exception, or reservation of coal, oil, gas and other mineral rights and interests previously transferred or reserved of record, if any. Farmland is under CAUV. If buyer changes usage, any recoupment will be at the buyer’s expense. New surveys will be paid by sellers if needed. The purchaser will be responsible for the cost of title insurance or other type of title evidence if the purchaser(s) elect to acquire such title insurance/title evidence. Acreages and frontages are subject to final survey if applicable.


BIDDER NOTICE: We will be using the multi parcel auction method. Parcels #1 thru #4 to be offered individually, in combination, or as a whole 82 +/- acres. Selling in the manner that brings the most money. All bids will compete and remain open for bid advancement until auctioneer announces property sold.

DISCLAIMER: Information contained in this brochure and all related materials is based upon information available at time of listing and are believed to be accurate, but is subject to verifications by all parties relying on it. No liability for its accuracy, errors or omissions is assumed by the sellers or Auction Company. Parcel acreage, dimensions, aerial photos and boundaries are approx. and are taken from Co. & FSA Agency records. The potential Buyers hereby stipulate and agree that they have examined the property. Relying solely upon such examination with reference to conditions, Buyers agree to take such property “AS IS” without any expressed or implied warranties by Seller or Seller’s agent. Any inspections desired by the Buyer shall be prior to the auction at Buyer’s expense.

Owner: Mattix Farms LLC. / Brad & Gretchen Mattix


BEN HIGGINS REALTY & AUCTION CO., LLC.

Ben A. Higgins, Broker & Auctioneer

Ben F. Higgins/Benjamin N. Higgins/Clayton Neal Realtors & Auctioneers

740-387-5111/www.higginsauctions.com


Terms & Conditions

TERMS & CONDITIONS: The successful bidder(s) will be required to enter into a purchase contract at the conclusion of the auction. We will require $5,000.00 down each on tracts #1 & #2, and $10,000.00 down each on tracts # 3 and #4 or $25,000.00 down as a whole (non-refundable) payment due at the conclusion of the auction with the balance due in 45 days. Your bidding is not conditional upon financing, inspections or appraisals. Be sure you have arranged financing, if needed, and are capable of paying certified funds at closing. Assignments of any purchase contracts are conditional on the bidder remaining jointly liable on the contract with the assignee. Taxes pro-rated to closing date. Tracts selling subject to all legal highways, easements, restrictions, agreements and rights-of-way of record, and any lease, grant, exception, or reservation of coal, oil, gas and other mineral rights and interests previously transferred or reserved of record, if any. Farmland is under CAUV. If buyer changes usage, any recoupment will be at the buyer’s expense. New surveys will be paid by sellers if needed. The purchaser will be responsible for the cost of title insurance or other type of title evidence if the purchaser(s) elect to acquire such title insurance/title evidence. Acreages and frontages are subject to final survey if applicable.


BIDDER NOTICE: We will be using the multi parcel auction method. Parcels #1 thru #4 to be offered individually, in combination, or as a whole 82 +/- acres. Selling in the manner that brings the most money. All bids will compete and remain open for bid advancement until auctioneer announces property sold.

DISCLAIMER: Information contained in this brochure and all related materials is based upon information available at time of listing and are believed to be accurate, but is subject to verifications by all parties relying on it. No liability for its accuracy, errors or omissions is assumed by the sellers or Auction Company. Parcel acreage, dimensions, aerial photos and boundaries are approx. and are taken from Co. & FSA Agency records. The potential Buyers hereby stipulate and agree that they have examined the property. Relying solely upon such examination with reference to conditions, Buyers agree to take such property “AS IS” without any expressed or implied warranties by Seller or Seller’s agent. Any inspections desired by the Buyer shall be prior to the auction at Buyer’s expense.

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