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

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 The Financialization of Housing Due to the financialization of housing
in today’s market, housing risks are increas ingly becoming financial risks. Financialization …

There is a small but growing literature on the financialization of housing that demonstrates
how housing is a central aspect of financialization. Despite the varied analyses of the …

In the literature, one finds various explanations for the rise of financialized capitalism. In the
different strands of financialization literature, housing either plays a minor role or is simply …

This paper compares how recent waves of private equity real estate investment have
reshaped the rental housing markets in New York and Berlin. Through secondary analysis of …

The private rental sector (PRS) is making a surprising comeback. A central argument in our
paper is that we see the rise of PRS and the associated stagnation of homeownership as …

This article presents two cases of listed real estate companies that operate in the Ruhr
metropolitan region of Germany. The first is Immeo Wohnen, a subsidiary of the French real …

This article seeks to advance debates about the financialization of housing by focusing on
the emergence of rental housing as a frontier for financialization, a dynamic that is …

Why does a social housing provider bet on interest rate fluctuations? This article presents a
case study of the financialization of both housing and the state. Social housing in the …

While many European countries experienced a global housing boom in the early/mid-2000s,
house prices and mortgage debt in Germany stagnated. Therefore, the German housing …