land agent
A real estate broker, especially one who specializes in the buying and selling of farms or undeveloped land.
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A real estate broker, especially one who specializes in the buying and selling of farms or undeveloped land.
However a study of the cautious development of land law will also demonstrate the evolution of the modern estate manager's role through that of steward and then land agent, particularly well summarised in F.M.L. Thompson's Chartered Surv…
“Like "boycott", named after Charles Boycott, who was the land agent of an absentee landlord.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(chiefly, _, UK) A professional employed to manage an estate; steward or estate manager.
The duties of an Irish land agent comprise a great deal of office work, drawing up agreements with tenants, receiving rent, superintending agricultural and all landlords' improvements, sitting as magistrate and representing the landlord …
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(historic) A person employed to manage the legal and practical aspects of developing a land grant.
It was a relationship quite different from that of the late-eighteenth-century steward who was evolving into the salaried land agent so characteristic of the nineteenth century.
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