Cahaba River Retreat
101 Acres on the Cahaba River just 15 minutes from downtown Birmingham! Exceptional home site overlooking the Cahaba, beautiful timber, great hunting, fishing, & swimming!
- 101 acres, Jefferson County, AL
- Additional 78+/- contiguous acres available with 1800 ft on the Cahaba River
- 1500’ on the scenic Cahaba River, the longest free flowing river in Alabama
- 15 minutes from downtown Birmingham
- Located at the Intersection I-459 & I-20, City of Irondale jurisdiction
- Rolling topography stacked with natural hardwood and pine timber
- Excellent recreation and hunting opportunities
- Excellent fishing, swimming, and kayaking on the Cahaba River
- Beautiful home sites overlooking the Cahaba River
- Excellent Conservation Easement opportunity
- Located in an Opportunity Zone
- Prime location for residential or commercial development
- Sewer located on Ratliff Rd fronting the property
Prime location for development adjacent to the I-20/I-459 Corridor or suitable for protection from development through a conservation easement!
Located in an Opportunity Zone providing potential tax benefits to a new investor.
The Cahaba River property is 101 acres with 1500’ on the Cahaba River and uniquely located just 15 minutes from downtown Birmingham. An additional 78+/- contiguous acres is also available with 1800' on both sides of the Cahaba River. If purchased together, one would own 179+/- acres with over ½ mile of frontage along the Cahaba River. Situated adjacent to the intersection of 1-459 and I-20, accessibility doesn’t get much better and its location makes this opportunity extremely attractive for both recreational buyers and developers. While extremely convenient and close to town, the property is very private, and gives one the feeling they are far away from it all. With 1500’ on the scenic Cahaba River, this property is pure recreation that will keep the outdoor enthusiast busy year around. Fishing, swimming, kayaking, hiking, & hunting can all be done here and the wildlife is plentiful. A beautiful bluff overlooks the Cahaba River that would be an ideal home site. This property has beautiful rolling topography with nearly every acre in timber which gives the property a much larger private feel. Large surrounding landowners provide security to the property and largely contributes to its privacy. The timber is primarily open stands of natural pine and hardwood with pockets of thick cover that create great habitat for the wildlife. A nice internal road system is in place and provides access to most of the property.
While the recreational components are outstanding, the properties close proximity to Birmingham creates unique opportunities for development or the protection from development through a conservation easement. One can easily envision a private gated community with large 2-5 acre lots with private access to the Cahaba River. Alternatively, a conservation easement here could provide substantial tax benefits while protecting the land and Cahaba River from future development. Often times, a home site will be held out of the conservation easement and the balance of the land is placed into a conservation easement. This scenario would allow someone to build a home, own and use the land for recreation, and offset the cost of the land by the tax savings received from the conservation easement.
Approximately 80 acres of the property is located in Irondale with the remaining 20 acres in Birmingham. Both tracts (101 & 79 acre) are in an area that has been designated as an opportunity zone by the governor’s office and offers tax benefits to those investing in these areas.
Additional 78+/- contiguous acres available for $1,733,000. This would be 179 total acres offered for $4,233,000
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Cahaba River Retreat
- Located at the intersection of 2 of the 5 major interstates in Birmingham
- 101 acres, Jefferson County, AL
- Additional 78+/- contiguous acres available with 1800 ft on the Cahaba River
- 15 minutes from downtown Birmingham
- Located at the Intersection I-459 & I-20, City of Irondale jurisdiction
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Bruce Ratliff is a retired elected official (Property Appraiser Taylor County). Bruce brings years of experience in ad valorem tax knowledge. His property tax background gives JKA Associates & clients a unique insight into the complicated tax process. Bruce held several positions in the Florida Association of Property Appraisers, including member of the Board of Directors, President, Vice-President and Secretary, and served on the Agricultural & Legislative Committees for the Association. The real estate business has been part of Bruce’s life since childhood. His mother, Shirley Ratliff owned Professional Realty of Perry, Florida and his father, Buster owned Ratliff Land Surveying which Bruce was General Manager of before his political career.
From murky farm ponds to pristine glacier-cut lakes and everything in between, Knox Daniels’ expertise stems from a lifelong fascination of water and the creatures that live in and around it. He recognizes and helps clients appreciate the value water features bring to a property. “My goal is to help buyers realize and sellers maximize the value different water bodies bring to a property, not only in a recreational sense, but also for social storm reasons.” After extensively traveling the country for collegiate BASS fishing tournaments, Knox graduated and worked for the Southeast’s finest fisheries and wildlife biologist, Greg Grimes. With Grimes’ company, AES, Knox managed many of the southeast’s finest private lake estate/impoundment properties, and learned the intricacies of upscale property management. Learning from Greg and other biologists, Knox honed in on the specific conditions and habitat needed for optimal gamefish growth in private lakes. He has also worked as a property manager on several thousand acres and for a commercial developer, facilitating the dirt work and builds of several apartment complexes, but his true passion has always been in the outdoors. “I’ve always had an insatiable fascination with ponds/lakes and am grateful to be able to help to place clients on the properties of their dreams and make their personal fisheries/wildlife goals reality with JKA.” – Knox Daniels
As a landowner of his own family farm, Lick Skillet, along with family land that has been passed down and enjoyed together at Keaton Beach for 40 years, Jon knows what it means to be a steward of the last best places. As a third-generation land broker with more than 30 years of experience in advising landowners in this niche, Jon is known for his innate ability to harvest a land’s unique intrinsic value. Touting several notable sales under his belt, Jon personally closed Rock Creek/Molpus – 124,000 acres of premium timberland at $142,000,000 – which was known as the largest timberland land sale in the Southeast for eight years running. He is a co-founding member of LandLeader and achieved the real estate industry’s highest honor, “2022 National Broker of the Year – Recreational Land Sales,” by the Realtors® Land Institute.
Prior to joining Jon Kohler & Associates, Walter Hatchett served for 30 years as a land manager to several of the south’s most esteemed properties, including Rock Creek. As a former property manager himself, and a consistently ranked “Top Sales Producer” nationwide and achieved “APEX Top 20 Land Broker” multiple times, Walter has a keen eye for the best in habitat management.
With Madison County roots, Lori grew up on her family farm at Pettis Springs along the historic Aucilla River. A love of the land was instilled in Lori very early on by her father who was a local farmer. Lori understands the importance of good land stewardship and has witnessed first-hand how her own father, a former 2-term member of the Florida House of Representatives whose district encompassed many rural counties of the Red Hills Plantation Region, with a little bit of sweat equity, so lovingly worked their own family land. These are core values she carries with her today, and nothing gives her more personal satisfaction than to represent some of the south’s best land stewards.
Hailing from a long line of outdoorsmen, Tim learned a great deal from his father and grandfather. He saw first-hand what it means to be a good land steward. He believes land is so much more than a place to hunt, fish, and grow timber or crops. “It’s an identity, a resting place, a safe haven and a way of life, said Tim.” Tim’s family ties to Alabama run deep. During his grandfather’s first term, Governor James was responsible for signing into law Alabama’s first state duck stamp which helped to ensure funding for the procurement, development, and preservation of wetlands for migratory waterfowl habitat. He also established Alabama’s lifetime hunting license, so it is no surprise that Tim is an avid outdoorsman with a keen eye as to how best to improve habitat for the greater good of its wildlife.
Jason has been assisting landowners for the last 28 years in Georgia and South Carolina obtain achievements the owners did not realize were possible. His degree in Biology from Georgia Southern stemmed from the desire to know how things in nature work. His plantation roots began at just 16 years old outside of Albany, GA and the last 20 years were spent in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. His entire career has been spent developing a global approach to plantation management. That plan included sales. Sales is in Jason’s blood- his mom had a 45-year career as a real estate broker. After college, he chose to pursue his passion of making properties great. In 2011, Jason sold his first plantation. Since then, he has assisted buyers and sellers with over $20 million in sales while most of that time working as a full-time General Manager of a large Lowcountry plantation. Today, he is committed to using his unique skill set and experience to guide landowners through the many challenges of plantation ownership.