This paper explores how temporality becomes a means of dispossession and a problem for collective land politics in the West Bank. It does so through the story of fraud, land sales, and speculation in Bidya, a town located southwest of Nablus. As Israeli residential settlement expanded in the West Bank in the 1980s, land in places like Bidya—located along the the trans-Samaria highway near to the Green Line—was sought after by Israeli companies seeking to expand settlement through real estate development and profit. Through archival research, court case analysis, and interviews, I trace how Palestinians responded to early attempts to acquire land through the market, the collapse of this strategy in the late 1980s, and its revival in recent years. In the 1980s, settler capital sought to combine real estate development with colonization, providing investment opportunities and housing options for Israelis being priced out of urban spaces. Drawing heavily on fraudulent documents provided by land brokers, these companies sought to move as quickly as possible to maximize profits. However, the need to provide buyers with secure title forced them to formalize their acquisitions through a legal process that provided Palestinians a chance to object. As a result, an anti-market land defense arose that sought not only to prevent the transfer of title, but also to rebuild social relations damaged by the distrust and suspicion fraud left in its wake. The settler market collapsed at the end of the 1980s, but this was not the end of private settlement. Today, land purchases are happening again in Bidya—often on the basis of forged claims from the 1980s—reviving old fears and demanding new collective responses. While Mandate land sales have been studied extensively, there is almost no scholarly work on land sales in the West Bank after 1967. This paper brings Palestine into dialogue with other settler colonial land market histories to explore how different temporalities of dispossession—produced by cycles of capital accumulation, needs of investors, revelations of fraud, and years- and decades-long court cases—shape Palestinian land politics. Foregrounding temporality (rather than space), allows us to see how land sales require a constant, drawn out set of practices to reproduce collective life against the tendency of settler markets to poison social relations and atomize individual property owners.