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Graph 10.3: The value of purchase and sale transactions (182 records, in Ven. Lire)
of their agency and income integration, are the information and figures re-
garding the real-estate market in a narrow sense. For this reason we are go-
ing to concentrate the following analysis on the purchase and sale transac-
tions. Leaving aside more peculiar kinds of plots, like gardens and terraces,
in altogether 186 purchase and sale transactions a total of 206 parcels of ar-
able land and 196 of meadow were sold, while in 30 cases the transactions
comprised some kind of rural building and courtyards. Already these first
rough figures give the distinct impression of a real-estate market in which
small-scale transactions prevailed.
We may evaluate the representativeness of our sample as well as the
intensity of the peasant land market by comparing the villages and ham-
lets in which the mentioned 186 transactions took place with the total num-
ber of Karst villages in the Devin manor, since at present we can not rely
on population data for this area at that time. They took place in 35 out of a
total number of 37 villages and hamlets pertaining to the Devin manor on
the Karst. The geographic coverage of our sample is nearly complete, al-
though in some places we have only one registration, while in others they
are numerous. Expressing the intensity of the land market as an average, we
have five purchase and sale registrations per village in a timeframe of four
(scarce) years, meaning 1.25 transaction per village, per year. Perhaps this
could suggest a not very lively market, but one should bear in mind that it
is quite likely to be an underestimation, because we are dealing with, most
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Graph 10.3: The value of purchase and sale transactions (182 records, in Ven. Lire)
of their agency and income integration, are the information and figures re-
garding the real-estate market in a narrow sense. For this reason we are go-
ing to concentrate the following analysis on the purchase and sale transac-
tions. Leaving aside more peculiar kinds of plots, like gardens and terraces,
in altogether 186 purchase and sale transactions a total of 206 parcels of ar-
able land and 196 of meadow were sold, while in 30 cases the transactions
comprised some kind of rural building and courtyards. Already these first
rough figures give the distinct impression of a real-estate market in which
small-scale transactions prevailed.
We may evaluate the representativeness of our sample as well as the
intensity of the peasant land market by comparing the villages and ham-
lets in which the mentioned 186 transactions took place with the total num-
ber of Karst villages in the Devin manor, since at present we can not rely
on population data for this area at that time. They took place in 35 out of a
total number of 37 villages and hamlets pertaining to the Devin manor on
the Karst. The geographic coverage of our sample is nearly complete, al-
though in some places we have only one registration, while in others they
are numerous. Expressing the intensity of the land market as an average, we
have five purchase and sale registrations per village in a timeframe of four
(scarce) years, meaning 1.25 transaction per village, per year. Perhaps this
could suggest a not very lively market, but one should bear in mind that it
is quite likely to be an underestimation, because we are dealing with, most
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