A land lease, also known as a ground lease, is an arrangement in which a landowner (the lessor, in legal terminology) rents ...

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But REITs that are focused on ground leases — owning the land without owning the buildings that sit on it — have been an exception. Splitting the ownership of commercial land from the building ...