Knowing the Market? Understanding and Performing York's Housing

Wallace, Alison

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“…Since most of the properties sold to Hong Kong investors are buy-to-let, the figures on the return of investment are often more important than the location. To elaborate, it is acknowledged that buy-to-let investors are merely interested in the rental income and perhaps less emotional about the location of the property (Wallace, 2008). As for gathering information on the housing market, the availability of open data sources (such as UK Land Registry data) and social networks allows potential property buyers to build up their knowledge of specific neighbourhoods (Dunning and Grayson, 2014).…”

Section: Second Wave: 'Frying London Wave' (Buyto-fry)mentioning

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Looking for big ‘fry’: The motives and methods of middle-class international property investors

Atkinson

2017

Urban Studies

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Anxieties about the effects of international property investment in world cities like London have mainly focused on super-rich investors and corporate vehicles that have generated price inflation of assets and accelerated exclusion from an already expensive market. In fact, many international investors in the city's housing market are middle-class individuals, and focusing on Hong Kong as an emblematic example of such processes, we examine their motives and the products offered to them by important investment intermediaries. We find that an important rationale for these investments lies in local class-based uncertainties and existential anxieties concerning the future of Hong Kong itself. We focus on the cultural roots of these investor rationalities but also consider the role of investment intermediaries who have helped bolster confidence while shielding investors from the consequences of their aggregated market power -concerns in London over household displacement from foreign investment. We suggest that what may seem to be the predatory search to 'fry' property ( ), a Hongkonger colloquialism referring to the search for high performing investments, should also be understood as actions anchored in and generated by the habitus of the Hong Kong middle class whose lives have been moulded by historical geopolitical uncertainty and worries about its longer-term social positioning and security.

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Section: Second Wave: 'Frying London Wave' (Buyto-fry)mentioning

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Looking for big ‘fry’: The motives and methods of middle-class international property investors

Atkinson

2017

Urban Studies

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“…This calls, in general, for detailed and multi-layered studies of the internal structure and operation of different parts of the housing system from a range of perspectives, including new microeconomic and culturaleconomic conceptualisations of local markets (Kauko, 2003;Watkins, 2008;Wallace, 2008;Gibb, 2009). The focus of most scholars' recent interest appears to have been the private housing market, perhaps understandably given the market's absolute size and its importance to wider social and economic policy.…”

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Conceptualising Social Housing within the Wider Housing Market: A Vacancy Chain Model

Ferrari

2011

Housing Studies

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Article:Ferrari, E. orcid.org/0000-0002-5506-7670 (2011) ReuseUnless indicated otherwise, fulltext items are protected by copyright with all rights reserved. The copyright exception in section 29 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 allows the making of a single copy solely for the purpose of non-commercial research or private study within the limits of fair dealing. The publisher or other rights-holder may allow further reproduction and re-use of this version -refer to the White Rose Research Online record for this item. Where records identify the publisher as the copyright holder, users can verify any specific terms of use on the publisher's website. TakedownIf you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing eprints@whiterose.ac.uk including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. AbstractThere have been increasing calls for studies of housing systems that are more integrative and pluralistic in nature. Understanding the relationship of social housing systems to the wider housing market remains a key challenge. The mobility of households and the structural configuration of supply are both of importance, demanding methods able to reconcile both. This paper propounds vacancy chain models as offering significant potential in this regard, allowing policy analysis and options appraisal to be built on more dynamic conceptualisations of housing systems. The theoretical basis for vacancy chain models is developed before an account is given of a model developed of the Bradford (UK) social rented sector. The results suggest that social renting is very closely linked to the wider housing market and consequently the impacts of policy and investment may be felt beyond the sector. Observations on the future development of vacancy chain models are offered.

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“…Bramley et al, 2008); on the other hand, there are at present emerging lines of housing market research that fall within heterodox economic or non-economic methodology that is non-positivist and sometimes even qualitative by nature (see e.g. Wallace, 2008).…”

Section: Era Of Constructionmentioning

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The Housing Market Dynamics of Two Budapest Neighbourhoods

Kauko

2009

Housing Studies

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This study deals with residential location modelling of Budapest, Hungary, using a neural network approach known as the self-organising map (SOM). After identifying various urban elements, the analysis focuses on the dynamics of two selected inner-city neighbourhoods: the middle parts of the districts VIII (Józsefváros) and IX (Ferencváros) respectively. These adjacent, but different, areas in the south-eastern part of the inner city have both received attention as subjects for substantial rehabilitation in recent decades. When the differentiation of micro-locations in the targeted areas was modelled using the SOM over a period of six yearly cross-sections, notable dynamics could be identified in terms of both actual changes in the fundamental quality, and expected house price escalations that are not related to fundamentals. In particular, the evidence reveals how housing market development is related to most localised processes of social and physical upgrading occurring in an urban setting.

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Knowing the Market? Understanding and Performing York's Housing

Cited by 25 publications

References 19 publications

Looking for big ‘fry’: The motives and methods of middle-class international property investors

Looking for big ‘fry’: The motives and methods of middle-class international property investors

Conceptualising Social Housing within the Wider Housing Market: A Vacancy Chain Model

The Housing Market Dynamics of Two Budapest Neighbourhoods

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