land bank

American  

noun

1. a banking association that engages in the financing of transactions in real property, especially in agricultural land.

2. a parcel or parcels of land or real estate held in trust, as for future development.

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land bank British  

noun

1. 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

Example Sentences

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 • Feb. 12, 2026

The company effectively acts as a land bank for homebuilders.

From Barron's • Oct. 14, 2025

Carttar says most properties in the land bank have been long abandoned.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2021

It’s land bank of nearly 990,000 hectares, an area larger than Puerto Rico, makes it the world’s largest palm plantation firm by land size.

From Reuters • Feb. 13, 2018

Or ask any director of a peasant land bank how many thousand peasants within the area of his activity are purchasing land outside the communal limits and farming on their own account.

From The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various