During the 19th and 20th centuries the negotiations in land sales and development followed the movement of expansion, stabilization and reduction in the coffee growing industry of the state of São Paulo. Analyzing the sale deeds of rural real estate and properties in Ribeirão Preto we obtain an overview of this process. Even before the large plantations, the land market had expanded, increasing property and land values. Large groups of farmers, agricultural workers, slaves, colonists and migrants came to the region looking for the wealth of the coffee boom. The investments increased the number of transactions and their values, as well as the price of lands suitable for plantation.
Land; Coffee; Ribeirão Preto; Price of lands
