Billionaire Rams owner Stan Kroenke now owns 10x more land than Bill Gates
Fortune • • business
Key Points:
- Stan Kroenke rose to the No. 1 spot on the list of largest U.S. landowners in 2026, largely due to purchasing 937,000 acres of ranchland in December, marking the largest land purchase in the U.S. in over a decade.
- Kroenke's real estate empire began with developing shopping centers anchored by Walmart, connected to his marriage to Walmart heiress Ann Walton Kroenke.
- Farmland and timberland have become popular asset classes among the ultrawealthy as a hedge against inflation and market volatility, with U.S. farmland valued at around $4,350 per acre in 2025 and totaling a $4.3 trillion asset class.
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