Property Rights: A fight against inherited wealth

There are many delineations in this week's parsha of different types of properties, from Levite cities, properties inside walled cities, and those abutting one's ancestral lands. 

The one I'd like to focus on as a primer for understanding the others is property situated inside of a walled city, mainly because of its exceptional status vis a vis redemption. Unlike the typical real estate property that is sold, a walled city has special status, more specifically that once a property therein is sold it does not return to the initial owner in the Jubilee year. The first owner only has one year to redeem it, and after that, loses any chance to do so. 

Typically, at those times, the societal hierarchy would live in cities; furthermore, given that cities cropped up around water sources so as to protect them, therefore the lands therein were considered to have more of a communal nature, combining, synthesizing and integrating the needs of the populace as a whole. In stark contradistinction, the homes adjoining the fields were more likely to belong to poorer people, and the masses and therefore, to propagate and ensure social justice these were lands that needed to be protected, the homes considered part of the lands they served, unlike the city-based homes, more ingrained in aristocratic living, or alternatively serving not the individual landowner, but the greater common good, which meant that the individual's rights needed to be secondary to that of society as a whole.