(The five-acre lot, which he bought in 2002, added $25,000 to the total.)

In the Beechwoods section of Callicoon, on a hilltop area dotted with dairy farms, a five-acre lot is listed at $135,000.

Outside the line, development was limited to one dwelling per five-acre lot; the goal was to keep the land from being built on.

In 1993, a five-acre lot in Kent went for $50,000; earlier this year, a comparable lot sold for $227,500.

The other major park is the Esplanade, a five-acre lot with stone terraces off Elm Street overlooking the railroad station.

A house on a five-acre lot will be permitted to take up 4 percent of the lot, or 8,712 square feet.

And this, before they'd even sold their own house and five-acre lot in Hillside Estates.

We went out there to find a vacant five-acre lot and a dream.

Now, the nearest route to the place of her destination lay across a five-acre lot.

One five-acre lot on the water in East Hampton sold for a record $8 million late last year.