Despite controversy over the meaning of financialization, there are two major dimensions to
understanding whether the city is financialized. This paper explores these dimensions in …

This article contributes to debates within the financialization literature by examining the rise
of monopolies in the US'rental housing market. Drawing on a dataset of multifamily real …

Since the 2010s, two worldwide trends have reshaped the urban housing system and
induced drastic neighborhood change: the financialization of rental housing and the rise of …

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) have been around since 1960 but have only become
major players in housing markets in the last twenty years. The current and ongoing wave of …

The structure of the UK's private rental sector (PRS) is being disrupted by a new series of
rental proptech platforms (RPPs). These start-ups are adopting technologies including …

Recent years have witnessed the rapid decline in homeownership across a number of
developed societies and the growth of an increasingly unaffordable and insecure private …

Over the last decade, Greater Manchester's city-regional centre has become an important
site for build to rent (BTR) housing development in the UK. The growth of this new tenure …

Mortgage credit has been central in fuelling housing market dynamics in many countries.
While mortgage debt and house price increases used to go hand in hand, we see an …

This paper answers the question why the Dutch state has gone from vigorously stimulating
private-rental growth and liberalization to actively restricting the tenure. Answering this …

The dramatic growth of long-term rental apartments (LRAs) in China's megacities since
2015, spurred by a series of state policies encouraging the development of the private rental …