Fields, D.J. orcid.org/0000-0001-6959-8803 (2018) Constructing a new asset class: property-led financial accumulation after the crisis. Economic Geography, 94 (2). pp. 118-140. ISSN 0013-0095
Abstract
This paper is concerned with new modes of property-led financial accumulation emerging in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Focusing on the US, the paper traces the creation of an asset class derived from securitizing the rental income of foreclosed homes turned rental properties. The study strategically combines conceptual agendas often pursued separately. Theories of market formation rooted in science and technology studies inform the method of analysis, so as to attend to the work of realizing markets, the role of calculative devices in market formation, and the contingent and conditional aspects of markets. This analysis reveals the single-family rental (SFR) asset class as a practical accomplishment. However, a broader framework rooted in political economy is necessary to attend to the broader significance of the SFR asset class in terms of power, politics, and the dynamics of capital accumulation. The paper particularly focuses upon the historical and geographic contingencies making it possible to conceive of a large-scale SFR market, the work of state and capital market actors in reframing repossessed singlefamily homes as rental properties and the role calculative practices played in this process, and the strategies of issuers and credit rating agencies to frame a novel asset class for institutional investors. The SFR asset class affirms the fundamental role for housing in the ideology of capital, and speaks to new entanglements of financial actors and home life as financial accumulation is adjusted to the post-crisis context. Beyond shedding light on post-crisis housing financialization, the paper demonstrates how economic geographers can carefully integrate theoretical perspectives to critically examine both the circumstances of market formation and the social, spatial, and political consequences of markets.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Taylor & Francis. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Economic Geography. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | financialization; marketization; political economy; real estate; financial assets; credit rating agencies |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 16 Jun 2017 13:44 |
Last Modified: | 22 Dec 2023 12:09 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/00130095.2017.1397492 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:117575 |