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

Housing financialization, or the increased dominance of financial markets in the housing
sector, has not stopped in the wake of the crisis. Rather, it has reinforced and rescaled itself …

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 …

Financialization is now a key area of research within Geography. Development geographers
have made significant (although arguably under-recognized) contributions, notably in …

The 2008 financial crisis and its impacts on the urban landscape contributed to a
proliferation of research on the financialization of urban space, particularly of housing …

This study presents an assessment of the political economy of housing in contemporary
Turkey in conversation with the main issues of the financialization of housing (FoH) debate …

Poststructuralist and postcolonial critiques have led to a necessary corrective in the social
sciences, but arguments about difference and incommensurability are also mobilised to put …

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 …

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 …

Housing policies for low-income households have radically altered the living conditions of
the urban poor in Latin America for the last quarter of a century. This is mainly due to the …