This article contributes to the emerging literature on the post-global-financial-crisis wave of
financialization of housing 2.0 by furthering the understanding of how the national …

Although academic scholarship has addressed how city governments have responded to
declining housing affordability in the aftermath of crisis, few studies have done so from a …

This paper interrogates the concept of financialisation and assesses its utility for housing
scholarship. It begins by noting the elasticity of the concept and considers some of the …

This exchange considers the unrecognised interplay between two major political–economic
trends shaping contemporary Europe, namely the upward trend in housing-induced …

This paper addresses coliving as a product shaped to attract both young professionals in a
student-style accommodation and investors of various scales, while integrating new …

This paper has two purposes: the first is to offer an empirical account of how rented homes
have become more entangled in financial markets over the past two decades, particularly …

Many countries have seen a remarkable revival of private-rental housing markets in recent
years. Academic literature so far has focused on theorizing the political-economic drivers of …

This article sheds light on the investment-driven construction sector in Vienna and provides
a critique of the Austrian rental investment product Vorsorgewohnung (VSW), a tax-saving …

This article explores how a technocratic consensus was constructed around the emergence
of build to rent housing (BTR) in Australia which helped depoliticize this new wave of rental …

The extensive research on financialisation of housing and lively public and political debate
on its negative implications for housing affordability have translated into surprisingly modest …