The sales did nothing to create a stable core of long-standing families, though turnover may have been somewhat slower than in tenanted estate villages.
Over the period, at least 40 per cent of the copyhold land was tenanted to subtenants.
The table shows that the market value of tenanted houses in the most favoured region was more than four times that of the least favoured.
Tenanted farms on gentry and aristocratic estates were a gamble, and rates of tenant turnover were high.
In addition, for a given house, owner occupation gave a higher market value because rent controls and sitting tenants held down the price of tenanted houses.
While benefiting from a comparatively stable rent, the landlord still had to take on an often high share of the risk to support his farmers and keep the herdades tenanted.
Local authorities already have powers to declare improvement areas and compel owners to improve tenanted dwellings there.
Making our inner cities places in which people wish to work and live will indirectly help the tenanted sector of agricultural land.
