Land Buyer / Negotiator
Land Buyers seeks out development opportunities to introduce to clients.
The Role
- Identifying sites for potential development
- Appraising a site to establish land value
- Negotiating deals with both landowners and agents, and presenting ideas at consultation events
- Understanding planning legislation and working closely with planning teams to assess suitability for development and the likelihood of achieving permission for a variety of developments
- Realising the development potential of a plot of land
- Carrying out assessments
- Liaising with vendors and external companies to arrange site surveys
- Providing survey companies with all relevant site information
- Monitoring competition
- Carrying out saturation surveys and other site identification tasks
- Undertaking research and collate information for reports as directed
- Managing budgets
- Most full time positions are 40 hours a week
Salary
- Newly trained land buyers or land negotiators can earn in the region of £20,000 and £25,000 per year
- Trained with experience land buyers and negotiators can earn in the region of £25,000 and £50,000
- Senior land buyers or negotiators can earn £50,000 or more
Qualifications & Training
Most Land Buyers and Negotiators are graduates with a degree in a land or construction based subject. These could include Geography, Civil Engineering or Surveying.
Typically a Land Buyer is also required to have a full, clean driving licence. 
