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

The pace and scope of digital innovation targeting the real estate industry has intensified
over the past decade. This article is therefore concerned with the digitization of the …

Rising inequality is the defining feature of our age. With the lion's share of wealth growth
going to the top, for a growing percentage of society a middle-class existence is out of reach …

Through detailed empirical analysis of a central area of Lisbon, this paper explores whether
short-term rental platforms such as Airbnb channel investment in residential real estate and …

Comparative research on income inequality has produced several frameworks to study the
institutional determinants of income stratification. In contrast, no such framework and much …

Gentrification caused by tourism is increasingly affecting places around the world. Although
some scholars have noted that tourism threatens the right to 'stay put of existing populations …

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 …

This critical commentary confronts and explores the–so far under-recognised and under-
researched–emergent global crisis of urban housing affordability and affordable housing …

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 …