Geographers have started studying residential (housing) and commercial real estate
(offices, retail, leisure) at the intersection of financial and urban geographies to understand …

This paper advances a research agenda on how asset‐based welfare policies, residential
market volatility, stratified accumulation and vulnerability impinge upon the geography of …

The financialization of housing in the Global South (GS) and peripheries of the Global North
(GN) develops in different ways than in the GN because the mechanisms underlying and …

This introduction to the special issue introduces the contributors' articles and identifies key
themes relating to how increased transnational mobility has affected urbanisation processes …

The article analyses heritage conservation and urban upgrading in Cuenca, Ecuador, in
order to reflect on global inequality and rights to the city at the crossroads of transnational …

ABSTRACT Focusing on Cape Town, this article investigates how financialization unfolds in
the South African housing market. I use a mixed method that combines in-depth field …

Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People tells the previously untold stories of those
living with mortgage debt in times of precarity and explores how individualized indebtedness …

Particularly since the financial crisis of 2008, much has been written about the growing
influence of finance in the development of cities in the global North. Today, financial markets …

Over the past two decades, the private rental sector has grown significantly in Japan. Once
an overlooked sector of the market, it has been seized by the financial industry to the point of …

This article contributes to scholarship on housing financialization and core–periphery
relations by exploring the role of transnational institutional investors in housing production in …