Lima, R. orcid.org/0009-0005-2951-7403 (2024) Subordinate housing financialization: tracing global institutional investment into Lisbon’s urban development. Urban Geography, 45 (6). pp. 1072-1094. ISSN 0272-3638
Abstract
This article contributes to scholarship on housing financialization and core–periphery relations by exploring the role of transnational institutional investors in housing production in Lisbon. Using a “follow-the-money” approach, I trace current investments into large-scale housing developments, finding a dominance of capital-rich institutional actors originating primarily in core economies. The resulting developments are largely build-to-sell projects, which are framed as a necessary response to existing housing demands. I argue that such investment reflects and reinforces subordinate financialization through housing, as Lisbon’s status as a city of the semi-periphery dependent on outside investment provides fertile ground for investors to build projects to fit their criteria. This in turn produces uneven development on the urban scale. Using an independently-built database of projects and investors along with qualitative methods, the paper connects global relations of financial subordination to housing development, and adds to our understanding of institutional investors – increasingly powerful actors in real estate.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Keywords: | Subordinate financialization; housing; institutional investors; semi-periphery; follow-the-money |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Urban Studies & Planning (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Economic and Social Research Council 1939400 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 30 Oct 2023 11:45 |
Last Modified: | 06 Oct 2024 14:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/02723638.2023.2245302 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:204672 |