History

A History of Success

The Loranda Group, Inc. was founded in December, 1994, by John and LeeAnn Moss to help farmland owners and investors with the purchase and sale of agricultural real estate. Initially licensed for real estate sales in Illinois, the company gained its Indiana license and sold its first farmland property there in 1995. Successive state licenses and ag real estate sales followed in Wisconsin and Missouri in 1997, and Iowa in 2000.

In 2000, the company won the national "Auction of the Year" award and the national "Corporate Advertising" award, both from the National Auctioneers Association. Loranda also reached a milestone in 2000 by surpassing $50 million in sales.

The Loranda Group continued to grow, exceeding $100 million in sales in 2005 and, in 2006, opened the Lafayette, Indiana office. In 2009, the company moved its corporate headquarters to Bloomington, Illinois, and surpassed the $150 million sales mark.

Sales Highlights

High points of the company's sales include the auction of a combined 3,522 acres in five counties for a single client during 1997. The Loranda Group also handled the largest single land auction in east-central Illinois to date with the sale of the 4,176-acre Allerton farm in 2000. In 2003, the company auctioned the historic Schoenberg Estate property in St. Charles, Missouri.

The company successfully completed a brokered sale in 2007 of "The Break," a well-known 681-acre recreational property in Illinois. In 2008, The Loranda Group set a record for an auction sales price of more than $8,000 per acre for 191 acres in central Illinois, which was followed in 2011 by another record price per acre in Bond County, Illinois, in which 512 acres were auctioned for more than $7,000 per acre.