Rope Court (space 16) — Harborline deed reference

What it costs and what it raises

Mortgaging is the game's borrowing valve: it raises ⬡ 100 immediately, the deed stops earning while it is mortgaged, and buying it back later costs ⬡ 110. A player who is one payment short of bankruptcy can mortgage rather than lose the game, which is why it exists.

Rent at every stage of development

Rent starts at ⬡ 23 and reaches ⬡ 805 with a hotel, which is 35 times what a bare deed collects. That multiple, not the purchase price, is what makes a completed set decisive: the printed ⬡ 190 tells you almost nothing about what landing here costs late in a game.

Each building costs ⬡ 100 and sells back for 50% of that, so developing is easy to enter and expensive to reverse. A mortgaged property collects nothing at any level.

The Hilltop Terraces set

Rope Court is one of 3 cities in this group. You need all 3, with no mortgage anywhere in the group, before you can build on any of them.

• Rope Court (this page)
• Vane Hill (space 17)
• Captain Hill (space 19)

Standard rules require even building: you improve the least-developed city in the group first, so a single street cannot be stacked with a hotel while its neighbours stay empty. The bank also holds a limited number of houses and hotels, so a late-game shortage can block development entirely.

Nearby on the board

Rope Court sits between Dry Dock and Vane Hill on the loop.

• Dry Dock (space 15) — one space back
• Vane Hill (space 17) — one space forward