Well that’s an open ended question. You know this is a worldwide forum, right?

100 acres in my neck of the woods could range from $2,000 to $10,000 per acre, depending on its farmability.

A "realtor" should have better accessibility to what's on the market, or coming soon, than any of us mere mortals answering what sounds like a Craigslist ad.

3onthetree: I belong to four real estate associations, and I see everything ON THE MARKET, but I comb through any avenue to find what my client specifically wants: a good condition log bungalow, 100 acres for cash crops, barn for 6 beef cattle, stalls for 2 horses, in or close to Northumberland County, ON. Anybody leads me to that specific requirement I would be grateful. Sometimes someone knows something that Isn't on the market. I'm not averse to using Craigslist or kijiji either!

Kevin9408: Looking in or close to Northumberland County, Ontario. It is not legal for me to pay you unless you are licensed to trade in real estate in the province of Ontario, Canada. Not really interested in timber stand, and don't want water or mineral rights. We want 60 to 100 or so arable acres with barn, horse stalls and a nice log house. The colour of the logs Isn't critical. Budget: 7 figures.

littlebug zone 5 Missouri Your land's a lot cheaper than ours! Looking for flat, well-drained acreage suitable for growing cash crops: hay, corn, soya beans. Plus the log house, and barn(s). Northumberland or Prince Edward County, Ontario Canada.

Stax: I'm not looking for a listing (well, I'm always looking for listings!), but in this case I'm representing a Buyer-client. Not spamming; reaching out where someone might know someone who's thinking of selling a nice log home with acreage. I'm in Ontario, Canada. Looking in Northumberland County, Prince Edward County - North shore of Lake Ontario.

"A "realtor" should have better accessibility to what's on the market, or coming soon, than any of us mere mortals answering what sounds like a Craigslist ad."

Actually, a good realtor will look everywhere for their buyer, not just listings or about-to-be listings. I know of a few people sell their homes to buyers who made great offers through their enterprising agents, even though they'd never considered putting their house on the market before. In this kind of hot market, a great agent will look everywhere, even for places where the current owner hadn't yet decided to sell.

You might want to try being nice to the folks at the local feed/farm stores/mills. Sometimes they know who might be giving up a farm before anyone else does. Sometimes those places have bulletin boards where folks can post up notices of looking to buy or sell farm stuff. Maybe keep an eye out for those and post up your own notices.

Some places have a local ComAG/4H kinds of publications, sometimes with want ads- you could try those. Some places have weekly adverts/papers for mail flyers that often will have local folks looking to buy/sell all sorts of stuff.

Nothing wrong with looking under every stone. You should have combined your 4 responses and said them initially in the OP. I hope when listing your properties on the MLS you don't just say "Looking for a buyer. Have house for sale."

Realtors in contact with buyers normally do their searching and legwork with the listing services. That's the "market" for real estate.

My experience is very often when something seems a bit off, there's more to know or it's indeed a bit off. A buyer's agent looking for a property with no listing agent so as to earn both sides of a standard commission? Something unusual with the buyer? Something unusual with the agent? Is it an area other than where the agent normally works and the agent has no knowledge of or contacts in the other area?

Shaking bushes and asking around can't be a fruitful way to find possibilities or something that a busy agent would have time to do. There's more to know here. I have no curiosity to know anything further. Just an observation.

"That's the "market" for real estate."

That used to be the market. These days, it's only one of the markets available. There's more than one way, and more than one place, to catch a fish, and only fishing where everyone else is fishing is probably not the best way.

Maybe that's how it is in Canada or in less populated areas but it isn't how it is where I am in California. I have two houses in the state (one purchased two years ago), each in areas where the real estate markets have been hot for decades. The multiple listing service is the name of the game. Even the for sale by owner avenue, which attracts a small number of people who are penny wise and pound foolish, and which you would think would be more used because of the high property values that lead to high real estate commissions, is on the far fringe. When people want to buy and sell real estate, the multiple listing services is where they go. It's true in less populated areas too, judging from experiences people I know have had with vacation homes.