The Institution of Residential Investment in Seventeenth-Century London
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9629059 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William C Baer (Development Bank of Southern Africa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 515-551 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Business History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6805 • E-ISSN: 2044-768X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4127797 |
| OpenAlex | W2104962353 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 41 |
Little has been written about urban property investment in seventeenth-century London. Market norms for investors were developed in a relatively unregulated environment, and in response to surging urban growth. “Pattern books” (manuals of design, measuring, and building) provided information to investors, helping them to evaluate an assorted set of properties. While the methods of investment described in these books were initially rudimentary, there is evidence of increased sophistication in the latter part of the century. The gradual institutionalizing of real estate practices helped to attract the necessary capital to finance London's remarkable physical growth
Archaeology · Business · Capital (architecture · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Estate · Institution · Investment (military · Political science · Real estate · Social science · Sociology · Sophistication · Finance · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Scottish History and National Identity
Pricing the Future in the Seventeenth Century
Real estate and mortgage finance in England and the Low Countries, 1300–1800
Landlords and tenants in London, 1550–1700
The house-building sector of London's economy, 1550–1650
The decline and fall of an early modern slum
Beyond utility
Mr. Aecroid’s Tables
Quantitative Reasoning and Commercial Logic in Rebuilding Plans After the Great Fire of London, 1666
Stuart London's standard of living
Calculating credibility
Augustan England
Economic thought and ideology in seventeenth century England
English Historical Facts 1603–1688
Worlds within Worlds
The Pursuit of Stability
The Economy of Obligation
Crisis and Order in English Towns 1500-1700
Numeracy in Early Modern England. The Prothero Lecture
Thomas Manley and the Rate-of-Interest Debate, 1668–1673
Continuity or Change in the Court of Chancery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Ethics in the Marketplace
The Rebuilding of London
The ‘Invisible Merchant’ and Property Rights
The Professions in Early Modern England
The Business Community in Seventeenth-Century England
London Scriveners and the Estate Market in the Later Seventeenth Century
Joint-Stock Investment in the Later Seventeenth Century
The Price of Freehold Land in the Later Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The price of freehold land and the interest rate in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
The Long-Term Rate of Interest and the Price of Land in the Seventeenth Century
Accounting for Rationality
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,53 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |