Land Economist (ANZSCO 224511)

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Land Economist on?

MLTSSL — Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List. The widest list — occupations on the MLTSSL can access the points-tested permanent skilled visas including the Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189), which needs no state nomination or employer.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Land Economist comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS assesses Land Economist under Group A, the same one-pathway structure as Economist, Actuary, Statistician and Valuer. Land Economics is the named highly relevant field; Property or Real Estate majors may be considered case by case, but a degree with general Economics units and no Property, Land Economics or Valuation content is stated as not assessed positively. Its own page distinguishes the role from Valuer on task content — advising on, managing or analysing land and property as an asset class, rather than personally producing valuations.

Where these applications come unstuck

Its own page excludes roles with a primary focus on valuations, property management, or urban and regional planning and design. An applicant with a straight Economics degree and no property-sector employment history is the clearest way this code fails on field-of-study grounds, and an applicant whose actual work is producing formal valuations should check Valuer instead — the two occupations exclude each other by name.

An honest read on this pathway

Land Economist sits on MLTSSL and CSOL and reaches all eight visas, the same footing as Valuer, so the visa-reach consequence of confusing the two is nil. No state licensing regime specific to Land Economist, as distinct from Valuer, was found in this research — that is reported as not found, not confirmed as absent, and it is worth checking directly with the destination state rather than assuming none exists.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

Talk it through with a registered agent

Whether nominating Land Economist is your best route depends on your points, experience evidence and timing — exactly what a MARA-registered agent works through in an initial consultation. Describe your situation once through Migratio and compare real consultation quotes from registered agents, free.

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