Definition of "house-agent" [house-agent]

• One employed in the sale, renting, and care of houses. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The house-agent pointed across the street to a dreary mansion of many windows, which might have been a manufactory, but which was an hotel."
• "After breakfast Scaife got from a house-agent a key for the gates of the staircases on the Ruff."
• "The house was called Trafalgar Lodge, and belonged to an old gentleman called Appleton — a retired stockbroker, the house-agent said."