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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 5424759" data-attributes="member: 99">First up, welcome to the boards!Second up, it's "acre" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.  An acre of land, is 43,560 square feet.  That may sound like a lot if you live in the heart of a major city but it's really not that much land for purposes of a fantasy setting, in my opinion.An acre of land is about large enough to build a house, have a few chickens or goats and plant a decent sized garden.  I think it is very unlikely that a typical sized peasant family could sustain themselves on an acre of land.Consider that most families who were homesteading in the settlement of the western US were allowed to claim land in blocks of 40 acres (because that was 1/16th of a square mile), which allowed for enough space to graze some livestock, plant several fields and keep some land in timber for raising hogs and gathering firewood.Now close in to a city an acre lot might make more sense for a tradesman who didn't need a lot of land for production.  Somebody like a blacksmith or carpenter could set up a cottage industry on an acre with no problem.  Whether or not such lots would be for sale or rent is going to depend on the political system more than anything else.As for a price, in a free market then an acre of land will sell for exactly what somebody is willing to pay for it.  That means that your price should probably be based on what a typical user can afford for rent or sale.  If land is only available to the upper class, such as with exclusive neighborhoods within a city or the "merchant district" where a lot of commerce will be conducted, then it will sell for more.  But most land is going to be purchased by "commoners" and they probably can't afford to spend much money on it.Finally, I'd highly recommend Magical Medieval Society:  Western Europe as suggested above.  It's an excellent resource put out by some wonderful people whom I've recently shared a hot tub with.</blockquote>

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