I covered land/real estate in the Great Taking hedges article but it's complicated (
https://controlplanecapital.com/i/185614133/rank-4-unencumbered-productive-real-assets-you-directly-control )
Ideally, the real estate will be unencumbered.
Land and real estate are:
- Visible (cadastral + satelite + utility data),
- Immobile (you can't self-custody a field),
- Already in digital rails (land registries, GIS, planning databases),
- Taxable forever.
Land is a lot more tricky than an unencumbered primary residence.
Housing is a consent rail, so people tolerate a lot as long as:
- the roof over their head exists,
- their home is not forcibly seized,
- pensions and basic savings don't go to zero.
Land, especially if rural and not your primary home:
- affects fewer voters,
- is easier to paint as "speculative/industrial/environmental problem",
- is more plausibly reclassified as "public interest" terrain.
So in a Great Taking:
- They have to be extremely careful with how they extract from primary residences; they cannot run too far ahead of Gross Consent Product.
- They can be much more aggressive with land/farmland and non-essential holdings.
Because housing is central to consent, the system will likely:
- Leave occupancy intact (you stay in "your" house),
- while siphoning more of your cashflow via taxes/fees, more of your equity via under-compensated levies, inflation and "resilience loans".
Homeowners' experience: "I still have my house, but it feels like I'm renting from an invisible landlord with infinite rules."