Real estate is, by definition, local as it is spatially fixed. Mortgage lending, however, has
developed from a local to a national market and is increasingly a global market today. An …

Who could have thought that banks would become nationalised, that state debts would
reach historical levels, that bulge bracket investment banks would go bankrupt and that the …

For decades community activists fought to increase access to capital for disinvested
communities. Now community activists question whether communities have access to capital …

This book is a systematic examination of the historical and current roles that cities and
suburbs play in US metropolitan areas. It explores the history of cities and suburbs, their …

This article will explore the geographical origins of Residential Mortgage Backed
Securitization (RMBS) in the United States and map the subsequent migration of RMBS, as …

The securitizing of mortgages has brought with it a new channel for extracting household
income, bundling it up with other types of debt and selling it off to financial investors …

The article focuses on the subprime mortage crisis in the US It cites Michael E. Stone's 1975
paper which states that the stability of capitalism has become linked with the stability of the …

This thesis draws upon contemporary research in economic geography and the social
sciences to explore the spatial relationships that exist between residential mortgage lenders …

The recent housing crisis has engendered much nascent scholarship examining the
relationships between foreclosures (the effect) and neighborhood characteristics, lending …

Over the last few years shortcomings have been revealed in the traditional forms of
tenureship in the housing market. Housing finance has become tied to international financial …