Which, if you ever want to have anything of your own or be better than median in some way should concern you greatly.
Some people will not rest until you’re poorer and more miserable than them, no matter what. Even if it means hurting themselves (and everyone else) to do it.
Crabs in a bucket mentality is deeply destructive and dangerous.
If you want the most valuable land, you should be operating enterprises that provide values high enough to pay for the land.
The best approach would be one where the government issues long-term leases to parcels of land, but property taxes are an okay-ish alternative if that (or LVTs) aren't feasible. Note that this is already what we do for things like the EM spectrum: the government owns it in the public trust, then leases it with an open bidding process.