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Land is finite in both Monopoly and in real life. This is actually what Monopoly was designed to communicate to players. It pisses players off and turns them against each other because it was designed to.

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Land might be finite but we're nowhere near its limits. I once read that you could easily fit every human building ever built in a 10km stretch of the Grand Canyon. So let's carefully say we can have 1e9 times the number of buildings we have now.

Desirable locations are finite, though. People want to live near jobs, infrastructure, amenities, their friends and family. There is limited supply of locations that are near to those things, so land functions as a monopoly.

You don’t need to be anywhere near a resource’s exhaustion for its finitude to affect how people value it. Look at any valuable natural resource.

That’s especially true of land where, as the other commenter says, all land is decidedly not created equal. There are very good reasons more people want to live in Manhattan than in Death Valley.

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