The Mortgage Registry / Contaduría de Hipotecas
The Mortgage Registry is a predecessor of the Land Registry. Born in 1768, it is an extraordinary tool to analyse the continuities and transformations of the urban world at the turn of the nineteenth century. It is finally replaced by the Land Registery in the second half of the 19th century.
The Mortgage Registry Database Project
I had the chance during my doctoral studies to bump into the Mortgage Registry of Madrid which has never been used until now to my knowledge. It provides full information on mortgages, redemptions, sales, and other very useful information on the capital.
More than 350,000 documents have been digitalized and wait for explorations. My paper "Public borrowing and crowding out in Spain at the turn of the 19th century" is the first article to use this data, especially data on mortages between 1768 and 1853. The aim of the project is to build a database on the evolution of housing prices, private credit and other things between 1768 and 1861. |
Bibliography
Cebreiro Ares, F., "The Mortgage Registry and its possibilities towards Urban History: Santiago de Compostela's study case 1768-1810", Communication at the III Encuentro de Jovenes Investigadores en Historia Moderna, Universidad de Valladolid, 2015.