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

This article centers the role of digital technologies in extending financial accumulation into
new sectors of the US housing market in the wake of the global financial crisis. I argue that …

Since the 2008 economic recession, state intervention in the real estate sector has
strengthened. This article explains how housing financialization was reignited in Spain …

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 …

The recent global financial crisis has seen investors turn away from real-estate bonds, given
their role in distributing risk during the crisis. However, since 2009, a new type of real-estate …

Innovation has become a guiding principle for European Union policy. Funding schemes,
research, and planning across all Member States are expected to be innovative. This article …

This paper interrogates the concept of financialisation and assesses its utility for housing
scholarship. It begins by noting the elasticity of the concept and considers some of the …

Historically, many Western nations have subsidized public and affordable housing with
public grants and government-backed loans. However, in response to declining housing …

The need for physical proximity and face-to-face communication in financial information
flows is contested. But the movement restrictions imposed across Asia during the COVID-19 …

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-first Century has become one of the key books in
contemporary economics and political economy. Although Piketty never mentions the …