Your Land Was Taken for a Highway.
You Don't Have to Accept Their Number.
Maximizing compensation for property owners on highway, freeway, interchange, and toll road takings — nationwide since the 1980s.
// HIGHWAY TAKINGS
State DOTs make opening offers. We make sure yours isn’t your final answer.
When TxDOT, FDOT, Caltrans, NCDOT, or any other highway agency decides it needs your land, you receive a notice and an offer. That offer is built from their appraisal — designed to move the project forward, not to pay you the full amount you’re owed under the law.
You are entitled to just compensation — the fair market value of what’s taken plus the damage done to the land you keep. Most initial highway offers significantly undervalue remainder damages, access impacts, and frontage loss. A partial taking strip worth $40,000 can cause $200,000 in damage to the rest of your property.
Do not sign before you have an independent review. National ROW works exclusively on the property owner’s side — never the agency — on a contingency basis. If we don’t increase your payout, you pay nothing.
// WHAT WE HANDLE
Every type of highway & DOT taking.
TxDOT & State Highways
Interstate expansions, freeway widenings, frontage road modifications, and access changes across all 50 states.
Toll Roads & Managed Lanes
SH 130, Grand Parkway, Loop 1604, and other toll corridor acquisitions affecting owners along the route.
Interchange & Flyover Expansion
Interchange projects create severe remainder damage to nearby commercial and agricultural properties that are often overlooked.
Partial Takings & Remainder Damage
When only a strip is taken, damage to the remaining land — access, frontage, use restrictions — often exceeds the strip’s value.
County & City Roads
Local road expansions and municipal condemnations — the same just compensation rules apply.
Light Rail & Transit Corridors
Rail corridor acquisitions and transit easements affecting residential and commercial properties.
The agency is not on your side. We are.
National ROW has represented property owners against state DOTs, toll authorities, and municipal agencies for more than 35 years. We work on contingency — if we don’t increase your payout, you pay nothing.
Start your free case reviewHighway & DOT Condemnation — Frequently Asked Questions
No. The offer from TxDOT, FDOT, Caltrans, NCDOT, or any other highway agency is built from their own appraisal and is an opening position, not a final number. You have the right to an independent review and to negotiate before you sign anything.
In a partial taking, you're owed for the strip of land taken plus the damage done to the remainder — including lost access, reduced frontage, and diminished use of the land you keep. That remainder damage is often far larger than the value of the strip itself and is commonly underestimated in the initial offer.
Yes. Toll authorities, county governments, and municipalities follow the same just-compensation rules as state DOTs when they condemn property for a road project, so the same right to an independent review and negotiation applies.
Nothing upfront. We work on contingency — if we don't increase your payout, you pay nothing.
Interchange and flyover expansions often create severe remainder damage to nearby commercial and agricultural properties that goes well beyond the land directly taken, and these secondary impacts are frequently overlooked in the agency's initial offer.
Defend your right to fair value. Talk to National ROW.
We coordinate your response to condemnation from the first notice to the final number — and we fight to make sure you’re fairly compensated. Nationwide coverage, all 50 states. Call or text either line, or send a note. We answer owners directly, usually the same day.
Know your rights. Find out what your property is really worth.
What they offered and what it’s worth are rarely the same number.
You don't have to accept their first offer. Tell us about the taking and what you've received. We'll review it and call you back with straight answers — usually the same day. The review is free, and there's no obligation.
(469) 484-7960 (956) 363-4144 info@nationalrow.comWe've got it from here.
Your case is in review. One of our consultants will look at everything you shared and reach out — usually the same day, often within the hour during business hours.
In the meantime, don’t sign anything, don’t return calls from their ROW agent, and don’t feel pressured by any deadlines they’ve mentioned. Those are exactly the kinds of things we’ll walk you through together.
Need to talk right now? Call (469) 484-7960 or (956) 363-4144.