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Real Estate Professional Training
How to Work with Farms with Commercial Agricultural Potential:
Training for MA Real Estate Professionals
November 10, 2026
Virtual Class meets 9am – 12pm
Registration opens soon!
Real estate professionals play an important role with both sellers and buyers of farm properties. Many real estate professionals have a sincere interest in seeing working farms stay in production, and seek insights and guidance about how to market farms or farmland with commercial potential. So real estate professionals and agricultural service providers are coming together!
This virtual class will offer Massachusetts real estate professionals insights and guidance to become better versed in the information needed to help clients buying or selling farm properties. Farm seekers are growing more sophisticated, and a primary tool that many farm seekers use in their farm search is the MLS and other real estate listings. Learn how commercial farm buyers differ from other rural property buyers, what they look for in properties, and how to reach them! *
Learn how to:
- Reach the commercial farm buyer
- Identify characteristics of the commercial farm buyer
- Identify & describe property characteristics important to the commercial farm buyer
- Introduce legal & tax issues of specific relevance to farms
- Identify farm financing options available to commercial farmers
- Explain conservation restrictions & issues which need to be considered when selling farms that have existing conservation restrictions
- Discover additional resources on farmland access including information on farm leases
Connect with these agricultural service providers:
Land For Good
American Farmland Trust
Franklin Land Trust
LandVest
New England Farmland Finder
*Content will be geared toward MA real estate professionals. May be applicable to other states.
Testimonial!
If you’re wondering if the Northeast Farmland Access Network is right for you, other service providers share what they want to learn:
““The resources provided are unlike any others available! I learned how to connect with farmers who are seeking or selling farms. In real estate, we rely heavily on our Multiple Listing Service (MLS) and most farm land is not listed there. The sites you provided are invaluable. Farms present a whole new level of property to me. Such knowledgeable speakers!”
Tracy Sladen, Real Estate Agent, Lancaster, MA
Funding provided by the Massachusetts Farmland Partnership Program through the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR).
