why is owning land important 
owning land is important because it is a source of wealth land can be harvested and the materials grown on it sold for profit factories warehouses and buildings that will facilitate business can be built on land land can be leased in return for income land is also a tangible good that does not depreciate in addition land cannot easily be tampered with in that there is nothing to steal from it for the most part it can be polluted and or destroyed but that can be prevented to a degree 