Just owning land can be interesting too...
I have 174 ha of forest up in Lappland, halfway between the coast and Norway. But I also have a little patch of forest outside of Umeå, where I grow up. Just 21 ha, and it's bordering on a nature reserve, which can complicate logging and stuff, but it is also just 6 km from the city centre.
Now the city has decided to develop a new neighbourhood right next door. 400 single family homes and 600 apartments. The area will house roughly 2500 people, there will be daycare facilities, convenience stores and the city buses will go right through it, turning around in the already existent village of Skravelsjö (Cairn Lake), which doesn't have any bus service today.
The development will be within the red circle. See the rural road to the left of it? at the northern tip of the village, just after the last house, there is a thin slice of forest cutting through the farmland. That is where my patch begins, it's like an index finger stretching out from the bulk of it, which is outside of the picture. My land crosses the road, but is only as wide as the wooded area to the left of the road. Then outside the picture, once it crosses a little creek it gets roughly five times as wide.
Anyway, I'll probably keep the bulk of it, but I'm starting to think the index finger part that touches the village could become pretty interesting to divide into parcels of land that could be sold off to people interested in building a new house on the outskirts of the new neighbourhood.
To the right of the circle is Röbäck (Red Creek), which was a village when I grew up but now is more of a suburb. There are houses all the way into the city, it's no longer disconnected. The new neighbourhood will be called Röbäcksliden (Red Creek Slope) and will fill out th eempty area between Röbäck and Skravelsjö, converting Skravelsjö as well to more of a neighbourhood or suburb of the city.