The Financialisation of the Housing Market is an LSE London research project, funded by The Knowledge Centre for Housing Economics.
Participating Co-Investigators: Penny Gurstein (UBC), Thomas Davidoff (UBC)
Since 2021, the project team has been investigating the financialisation of the housing market in twelve cities across the globe (Auckland, Barcelona, Berlin, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, Dublin, Lisbon, London, Miami, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Vancouver). This project, funded by Copenhagen’s Knowledge Centre for Housing Economics, involves experts in housing economics and policy from each city. They represent a range of academic disciplines including sociology, economics and finance.
The project addresses the following research questions:
- the various understandings of what is meant by financialisation;
- the role of international and institutional finance in the different housing markets;
- the impacts of deregulation of rents and finance;
- how cities have responded to the challenges; and how the fundamental issues might be addressed.
This collaborative research project will continue until mid 2022, with a report expected later that year.