Your home's real value is in the dirt, so to speak.
Land is real estate's most valuable resource because Planet Earth provides only a fixed supply.
You can't move it and you can't manufacture more of it. Your house is little more than an improvement upon the land. Because it is so valuable, your piece of the rock has its own legal description and a documented history recorded under a parcel or plot number. Land use The local planning or building department or division can provide you with your land's original legal description, boundaries, perhaps its surveyed dimensions, as well as a copy of the map of your parcel within a tract or subdivision. Some files include photos.