Chen Tianqiao owns 198,000 acres (80,127 hectares) of Oregon timberland, making him the country’s 82nd-largest property owner, according to the Land Report’s latest ranking.
Chen, 50, acquired the acreage from Fidelity National Financial Ventures for $85 million in 2015. Oregon tax records last month disclosed the name of the beneficial owner as Shanda Asset Management, the same moniker as Chen’s Singapore-based holding group.
His Oregon property makes him one of the biggest individual owners of American land by a non-US citizen. Only the Irving family of Canada — No. 6 on the Land Report’s list with over 1.2 million acres of Maine timberland — owns more.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinese-billionaire-second-biggest-foreign-172504581.html
I thought Bill Gates as the first largest?
Gates has land, but he’s a piker in actual surface area...