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The Mormon Church Is Quietly Expanding Its Real Estate Empire
10 minutes Posted Aug 27, 2026 at 12:00 pm.
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The LDS church, widely known as the Mormon Church, has assembled a sprawling real estate empire over the last century. Through a web of subsidiaries, it has accumulated billions of dollars of properties from farms and ranches to apartments and hotels, becoming one of America’s largest — and least transparent — landowners. Behind those holdings is a highly sophisticated investment operation more akin to a sovereign wealth fund than a religious institution, according to brokers and investors who have worked with the church.  Natalie Wong, Bloomberg News Commercial Real Estate Reporter discusses her reporting.

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