From Fox Business: A billionaire sports and real estate magnate has quietly completed the largest private land purchase in the United States in more than a decade — propelling him past other moguls to the top of the nation’s private landownership rankings.
Stan Kroenke — who owns the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams and England’s Premier League club Arsenal — purchased more than 937,000 acres of ranchland in New Mexico in a major off-market deal for property once owned by the heirs of Teledyne founder Dr. Henry Singleton, The Land Report first reported.
The acquisition catapulted Kroenke from No. 4 to No. 1 on the 2025 Land Report 100, surpassing other billionaire landowners such as Ted Turner and John Malone. It also marked the largest single land transaction in the United States in more than a decade. Financial terms were not disclosed by either party.
The report further explains that Kroenke, who was born in Columbia, Missouri, now owns more land than any other private individual in the United States, surpassing the Emmerson family’s 2.44 million acres, Malone’s 2.2 million acres, and Turner’s 2 million acres.
Some of the properties in his portfolio include:
- 560,000 acres in Wyoming
- 124,000 in Montana
- The historic W.T. Waggoner Ranch in Texas
- 800,000 acres in Nevada
- British Columbia’s Douglas Lake Ranch
Kroenke’s wife, Ann Walton Kroenke, is an heiress to the Walmart fortune.
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— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) January 17, 2026
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