Serving Northeast Louisiana · Serving LA, AR & MS
Real Estate · America’s Land Partners

Buying or Selling Land?

Why Representation Matters

Land Deals Are Won Before the Contract

Land is not like houses. Value hides in soil types, timber, drainage, access, easements, mineral rights, hunting quality, and what the property could become with the right improvements. Without a knowledgeable agent representing your interests, you find out what you missed after closing — as the buyer or as the seller.

Mike Martien is a nationally recognized land specialist with America’s Land Partners, personally licensed in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi — with $52.5M+ in land sold and honors including RLI’s Top 20 National Producer. And because America’s Land Partners has skilled land specialists across the continental U.S. whom Mike personally knows, he can connect buyers and sellers with trusted agents in the states he is not licensed in.

Few agents in the country pair that sales record with hands-on land improvement. Mike walks a tract as the contractor who could improve it and the specialist who will market it — a perspective that protects your money on both sides of a deal.

Talk Land With Mike

Buying, selling, or just weighing options — tell Mike what you’re thinking.

How Mike Helps

Buyers, Sellers, and Land Investors

Selling Land

Pricing rural property takes more than comps — soil, timber, access, minerals, habitat, and improvement potential all move the number. Mike values what your land really is, then markets it nationally through America’s Land Partners.

Buying Land

The right tract is about what the land can become. Mike evaluates productivity, drainage, access, hunting quality, and improvement cost before you offer — so you buy the property, not the listing photos.

Investing & 1031

From investment-grade farmland to 1031 exchanges and DST replacement properties, Mike and America’s Land Partners’ dedicated teams help structure transactions that defer taxes and preserve capital.

America’s Land Partners

National Marketing Muscle Behind Every Listing

America’s Land Partners is one of the fastest-growing land brokerages in the country — a nationwide network of land specialists whose backgrounds span agriculture, timber, wildlife management, appraisals, farm operations, and large-scale rural transactions.

National Marketing

Every listing is marketed on 130+ real estate websites, putting your property in front of buyers across the country and around the world.

Signature Listings

Properties get top billing as Signature Listings on Land.com, LandWatch.com, and LandAndFarm.com — with paid featured placement on Crexi.com.

Professional Drone Imagery

Professional aerial imagery and marketing media — Mike flies his own FAA Part 107 missions to present land the way buyers want to see it.

National Buyer Network

A nationwide network of land specialists — Mike personally knows them and refers clients to trusted agents in states beyond LA, AR & MS.

1031 Exchange Resources

A fully staffed, dedicated 1031 exchange team to help structure transactions that defer taxes and preserve capital.

DST Resources

Delaware Statutory Trust (DST) resources for investors seeking passive, investment-grade replacement properties.

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The Big Cypress Difference

Improvement and Real Estate, Working Together

This is where Big Cypress clients win twice. Selling? Mike can tell you which improvements — clearing, access, habitat — will actually raise your sale price, do the work, and then market the property nationally with America’s Land Partners.

Buying? He helps you see what a tract can become and what it will cost to get there — then his crew makes it happen after closing. One trusted advisor from “thinking about it” to standing on improved ground.

Client Testimonials

What Landowners Say About Mike

Real words from clients who’ve trusted Mike with their land as a land specialist with America’s Land Partners — the same care and work ethic he brings to every Big Cypress project.

Work With Mike

“Mike Martien secured my real estate sale through very difficult circumstances. He went above and beyond what would be expected of any agent. Anyone would be in the best of hands letting Mike work for you and with you.”

Farm Seller Louisiana

“We’ve known Mike for over 30 years. His work ethic and knowledge are exceptional. He’s passionate about helping others, trustworthy, and puts his client’s needs first. We highly recommend him to anyone working with land.”

Longtime Client Louisiana

“Mike has lifelong experience dealing with land management and development. His experience shows in researching current trends and values. For the most appropriate valuations and ease of sales, he can’t be beat.”

Landowner Northeast LA

“With an excessive amount of hurdles and more problems than anyone could imagine, he never slowed down or got discouraged. If anyone needs someone that is all about your best interest, this is the one to call.”

Property Seller Louisiana

“He’s beyond knowledgeable about whatever it takes to get a land deal worked out — even the tax side. He did a whole lot of legwork to get it done. Thanks again Mike, appreciate it more than you know.”

Cropland Buyer Louisiana

“His commitment to his customer and to the detail of the task at hand is unrivalled. I suggest for anyone selling or buying any land to use him. You won’t be disappointed.”

Let’s Get Started

Let’s Walk Your Property Together

Ready to improve, enjoy, or get more value out of your land in Northeast Louisiana? Reach out for a free, no-obligation consultation — and put a fellow landowner’s experience to work on your property. Buying or selling? Mike wears that hat too, as a land specialist with America’s Land Partners.