Why You Need a Land Agent For Your Transaction
Story by Beth Myers, ALC Courtesy of The REALTORSÂŽ Land Institute
Buying or selling land can be a complicated business, and prospective buyers and sellers must be sure they have an agent who not only has their best interests in mind but also the knowledge and experience to make it happen. In Southeast New Mexico, where I am located, we often jokingly say we have more cows than people. Some of the more recent statistics suggest this may no longer be as true as it used to be, at least when judging the entire state as a whole, but for the most part New Mexico is still a very rural state, deeply rooted in its ranching heritage. The fifth largest state in the U.S., New Mexico offers vast wide-open ranch land, gorgeous sunsets, and breathtaking scenery, stunning even at times in its vast nothingness. Even with all that immense ranch land surrounding us, land brokers in New Mexico are hard to come by. It makes for an interesting conundrum in a state you would expect to be chockfull of land brokers, given how much land there actually is.
