How much did a house cost in the 1600s?

Answer 1

5000-10000$ houses, depending on the size of the house. Most of the rich people in Europe and britain had slaves and maidens for them, so they where usually able to have a big house and maintain it. Those people(commonly called noblemen/gentlemen) usually got there wealth from there jobs or inherited the money. It was also possible that the wife of the noblemen(commonly called a lady) would get the money from the noblemen after they died, or just was married to a noblemen and was treated well because of it. Although currency has gotten quite cheaper over time, the people with bigger houses still had a lot to pay. Other factors could be how well the house was built, or what condition the house was in if the house that was being bought already had a person who once lived in it. The final factor could be how much the old owner wanted the house to be worth in general. If the house was a cottage, it could be worth way less then the house the size of a modern mansion. There where also instances where the people in the 1600s lived in the forest, where no one would know about there existance. They would usually hunt for food and cook fire. They could have had a garden, and created a small house for themselves, for no cost besides destroying part of the forest. There was also a good chance the person in the forest would be found in the forest eventually. Lots of people seized the opportunity of land, not only for farmland or just if they needed to hunt in the wilderness for food. The people who where caught by others would either be sent to jail for tresspassing (because the land was automatically owned by the government, so if you wheren't prohibited to hunt and live there it was illegal) or even worse. Theres also a case for people who lived in the thirteen colonies. There where rules and laws for each town that settled into the new world. But they where only allowd to create the new colonies with help and observance from the indigenous people. If the indigenous people felt threatened, they would usually attack the british or there relationship would be done for. Although those people who settled into the new world didn't need to buy anything or needed to get permission from the government, they still needed permission from the indigenous people to settle there, or else a battle could go on. Even with permission from the indigenous people, the settlers needed the materials to start a town and a life. That was why they brought the materials to the new world. BUT, they needed permission from the british government to even bring those resources, or even set sail to america in the first place. So technicly, even if you didn't pay for the house, you still needed permission from the british government to start a colony, unless you where never caught tresspassing and living in the woods, or you lived an incredibly long distance from civilization. The final thing I have to say is that in the forest, you would most likely need hunting tools, farming tools, clothes, and many other things from the markets before setting off to live a isolated life, so at the end of the day you couldn't live/by a house without money, even if the only way you ever "paid" for a house was through taxes.

Answer 2

50 dollars maybe 1337 dollars depending on how well the house was built.

Answer 3

3$