land speculator
Acreage investment flipper
A land speculator is someone who buys land expecting its value to rise, then sells for profit rather than developing or farming it.
The term often carries negative connotations—speculators are blamed for driving up prices and leaving land idle while waiting for markets to turn: Land speculators bought up half the county before the railroad came through.
- real estateLand and its structures
- tycoonDominant industrial leader
- flipperMarine animal's swimming limb
- investorOne who allocates capital
- quick buckHastily earned profit
acreage · parcels · deed · property rights · surveyor · frontier · wild west · boom · boom town · bust · paper profits · subdivision · profit · gamble · railroad · homestead · territory · prospector
- speculatorsday trader, futures trader, options trader, currency trader, short seller
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
land speculatorfarmer
One who cultivates land
homesteader · subsistence farmer · land steward · smallholder · conservationist
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