land bank

American

noun

a banking association that engages in the financing of transactions in real property, especially in agricultural land.
a parcel or parcels of land or real estate held in trust, as for future development.

land bank British

noun

a bank that issues banknotes on the security of property

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Other Word Forms

land banking noun

Etymology

Origin of land bank

First recorded in 1690–1700

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The brokerage maintains the stock’s hold rating, but raises the target price to S$0.062 from S$0.047 to reflect the underlying values of the healthcare services provider’s land bank in Johor, Malaysia.

From The Wall Street Journal

About 3,000 acres of the company’s 14,000-acre “land bank” are suitable for data-centers because of the properties’ locations and access to power, according to estimates from Vikram Malhotra, senior analyst with Mizuho Americas.

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While Mr. Bird discusses at length a failed Massachusetts land bank’s misadventures with printing mortgage-backed currency, Mr. Albertus doesn’t even mention the assignat, issued during the French Revolution and backed by land taken from church and crown.

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Still, the Bansals were established developers in Gurugram, with a large land bank.

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Millrose Properties, a real estate investment trust, was spun off from Lennar and acts as a land bank for homebuilders.

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