Real Estate Market in the Roman World

<p>As it is today the property market was a key and dynamic economic sector in Ancient Rome. Its study demands a deep understanding of Roman society of the normative frameworks and the notions of wealth value identity and status that shaped individual and collective mentalities. This book takes a multisided insight into real estate as the subject of short- and long-term economic investments of speculative businesses ventures of power abuses and inequalities of social aspirations but also of essential housing needs. </p><p>The volume discusses thoroughly relevant and new literary legal epigraphic papyrological and archaeological evidence and incorporates comparative historical perspectives and methodologies including economic theory and current critical sociological debates about the functioning of modern real estate markets and issues linked to its commodification and regulation. In pursuing this line of enquiry the contributions that make up the book investigate the impact of ideas such as profit risk security and trust in transfers management and use of residential houses commercial buildings and productive estates in urban and rural contexts. The work further evaluates the legal responses to and the public enforcement strategies concerning such activities the high mobility of fortunes and unstable property-rights that resulted from one-off but also structural political financial economic and institutional crises that marked the history of the Roman Republic and Principate. </p><p>This book aims to demonstrate the relevance of the study of pre-modern real estate markets today and will be of significant interest to readers of economic history as well as Roman law Roman archaeology the history of urbanism and social history.</p>