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 …

The managers of a growing wall of money are continuously searching for investment
opportunities. The financialization literature describes how this mobile capital puts pressure …

Financialization is a major trend in Western economies. This paper shows, on the one hand,
how it changes the management criteria and, on the other hand, the limits to financialization …

Over the past decades, institutional landlords–from real estate companies like the German
giant Vonovia to private equity companies like Blackstone, or pension funds like ABP, 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 …

In 2012, several large firms began purchasing single‐family homes, creating large portfolios
of rental property, and securitizing these investments in capital markets. We present the first …