land: Economic Aspects Of Real Property: A Brief History And Origins of Real Estate. - 07/05/09 09:39 AM




Where The Term Real Estate Come From.  
 A Brief History And Origins of Real Estate. 
Definition: Real Estate
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The Industrial Revolution.
The industrial revolution was one of the great equalizers in human history, The use of machines for manual labor freed many peasants for different tasks, and allowed a privileged few time for education and specialization into new fields of labor opened up by the mechanization of industry. Cobblers, seamstresses and cabinetmakers found that their once invaluable skills were now obsolete, leaving them to return to the land and the coal … (2 comments)

land: Where The Term Real Estate Came From. - 05/27/09 12:57 AM
 
Where The Term Real Estate Came From.  
 A Brief History And Origins of Real Estate. 
  Definition: Real Estate   A piece of land, including the air above it and the ground below it, any buildings or structures on it also called realty, and improvements there to, also called real property.
    In law, the word real means relating to a thing (res/rei, thing, from O.Fr. reel, from L.L. realis "actual," from Latin. res, "matter, thing"), as distinguished from a person. Thus the law broadly distinguishes between "real" property (land and anything affixed to it) and "personal" property (everything … (0 comments)