Land agent

A land agent is an managerial employee who conducts the business affairs of a large landed estate for a member of the landed aristocracy of the United Kingdom, supervising the farming of the property by farm labourers and/or tenants and collecting rents or other payments.

In the United States, there are at least two other uses for the term. One is used to signify an agent of the oil and mining industry that negotiates with landowners for mineral and surface rights for the potential extraction of those minerals. The other use is to denote a real estate agent that specializes in land and farm sales. Land and farm sales differ drastically from the sales of houses that most real estate agents are adept at doing. Therefore, there is the need for specialization, in the form of a land agent.