Mr. Suozzi would then sell the acre to Mr. Mohring for $650,000, or $325,000 per half-acre lot.

Almost two years ago, local leaders set out to build a millennial plaza in the half-acre lot adjoining the basilica.

The market found a vacant half-acre lot on the outskirts of Boone, North Carolina and remained at that spot for the first two years.

While the house, in Hauppauge, was large enough for the family, which included three children, its half-acre lot was too small for their three horses.

You may get the half-acre lot where all of your gardening fantasies are meant to come true.

The 3,000-square-foot house is on an island near Fort Myers accessible only by boat or aircraft (the half-acre lot abuts an airstrip).

The half-acre lot on which Boott build his brick house was then a pasture in Boston's West End, an area that was just beginning to be developed.

The average half-acre lot has increased in value from $2,000 to $6,000 in the last 10 years, said Grover Nash, the city's Mayor.

The half-acre lot is what sold them on the property: the four-bedroom house sits on a hill that slopes down to about 200 feet of lake frontage.

Here is a chronology of their land-buying venture, which began in May 1989, when they first spotted their half-acre lot.