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Time in the Realms is NEVER measured in “hours” or “minutes.” Short-term waits can be measured in “breaths” but in cities, temples, and monasteries, the equivalent of hours are so many “bells” (yes, a bell is rung) or “candles” (which do visibly burn down) from or to a measurable event, such as dawn/daybreak, dusk/nightfall, or noon (in the Realms, noon is “highsun”). Example: The tumult began three bells before nightfall.
“Midnight” is permissible usage, and “deepnight” is its ‘more Realmsian’ synonym.
When timing is important, Realms writers should work a reference to how many bells are struck in a day (“It was the task of Brother Blackhands to strike half of the twelve bells between dusk and dawn, with Sister Elphrana tolling the bells between—and another pair of the Devout handled the twelve bells of the bright hours.”) into the narrative to make it clear that a “bell” IS “an hour.”

In Tashluta and the Tashalar, Tharsult, and in some ports nearby, a “bell” (an hour) is called a “darmeth,” with the plural (hours) being “darmar.” As in: “It’ll be at least three darmar before he gets back.” or: “But that could take DARMAR, hrast it!” This usage seems to be spreading south.

In like manner, days in the realms are never referred to as “Monday,” “Tuesday,” or any real-world ‘weekday’ name. Most folk in the Realms refer to a particular day as thus far from “the first of Mirtul” or “the last of Eleint” or one of the annual festival days, or if they must be precise, will say something like “the first day of the first tenday of Ches.” If they were writing this date or speaking of it formally, it would become “1st Ches.”

Where we would say “a moment or two,” most humans in the Realms say “a breath or two”—and what we would call a minute is “a goodly breath or three.”
Dwarves tend to call the same span of time (actually, anything up to about three minutes) “but a little while,” whereas a halfling would call the same span of time “a long song.” To a halfling, a minute is “a tune,” and 10 minutes is “three long songs.” Most halflings tend to speak of longer time periods, within a day, in terms of how much the sun has progressed.

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Joran, Ed says that most Crown land in Cormyr is given as a royal gift. The exceptions are urban properties no noble would want (i.e. a rotting warehouse near the docks) and places that the Crown wants settled (on the borders of the realm, i.e. along the border with Sembia, around the Bridge of Fallen Men, and [ahem] near the Stonelands, specifically from the overland trade-roads north to the Stonelands, to more heavily settle [and therefore secure] the lands north and northeast of the Hullack Forest as part of Cormyr). There is no "set price;" it varies by who's trying to buy, how much they're trying to buy, what the quality of that land is, for farming, and the location of the land (urban, close to good roads, close to large settlements versus remote) - - and of course the price has increased over time.
BTW, the "acre" is a term still slowly creeping into the Realms, thanks to Elminster ("hectare" is still unknown), and most properties in Cormyr would officially be measured in "chains" or "chainsquares" (the surveyor's chain being a linear measurement, and the "chainsquare" being a square area measurement consisting of one chain per side; chains rather than rigid "ruler"-like measures are used so as to be able to handle irregular shapes).
I'll try to get back to you with some typical prices.

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As for your measurements questions: many different local systems are in use (though “miles” is NOT one of them!), but common trading and therefore widespread measurements are: fingerwidths; “hands” (handwidths, of a mature human male); “arlshanks” (formerly the length of the Uthgardt barbarian hero Ar’s thigh, now a standard measurement exactly equivalent to the real-world “yard” or three feet; Ar was a big guy; a Waterdeep merchant made flat metal plate replicas [stamped with his complicated proof-mark] of Ar’s thighbone after the hero’s death, and these now see wide use up and down the Sword coast and east along the Heartlands trade routes); wagonlengths; bowshots; halfday-rides, day-rides, tenday rides and halfday-hauls (“haul” refers to one horse and laden wagon, as opposed to “ride,” which is one rider on a fast riding-horse), day-hauls, and tenday-hauls.
As you can see, any of these measurements except the arlshank can vary widely, and be the source of much disagreement (“YOUR fat finger, merchant? Or mine?”), and new “better” measurements are constantly being introduced. Nothing thus far has widely and firmly caught on.

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Originally posted by George Krashos

Arlshanks.

-- George Krashos

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Originally posted by TheIriaeban

Taking the linear measurements Ed mentioned, I have calculated out the conversions below. I was able to find the actual lengths for chains and hands. Bowshot was vague, naturally, so I fudged it a bit to fit in better with the chain's length. Thumbwidths and fingerwidths are going to be subjective as Ed mentioned but I included them as an estimated conversion.

Lengths
1 yard = 1 arlshank = 9 hands = 36 thumbwidths = 48 fingerwidths
4 yards = 1 wagon length = 4 arlshanks = 36 hands
22 yards = 1 chain = 22 arlshanks = 198 hands
88 yards = 1 bowshot = 4 chains = 88 arlshanks
220 yards = 1 furlong = 2.5 bowshots = 10 chains = 220 arlshanks
1760 yards (1 mile) = 8 furlongs = 20 bowshots = 80 chains = 1760 arlshanks

Distances
1 day-ride = 24 miles = 192 furlongs
1 day-haul = 12 miles = 96 furlongs

Area
1 chainsquare = 22 yards by 22 yards = 484 sqyds
1 long chainsquare = 22 yards by 220 yards = 1 chain by 1 furlong = 1 acre = 4840 sqyds

Edit: fixed error and typo

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Ed replies:
If you are promised a tankard of ale, there is an expectation that the tankard will be large enough to have a handle you can fit all of the fingers of your hand through, and that the tankard will descend at least two fingers below that handle and at least one finger above, in terms of the depth of interior space in the tankard that can be filled with drink, AND that said space is wide enough that all of fingers of your hand, squeezed together tightly, can be thrust down into that "hole." (YES, that means that drinkers with huge hands should be given larger tankards, or given more ale in other containers, per drink paid for. For everyone, it means no miniature "toy tankards," and no mugs that are only two inches deep, from lip to the "bell" [inside bottom].)

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