Performing (housing) markets

Smith, S., Munro, M. and Christie, H. (2006) Performing (housing) markets. Urban Studies, 43(1), pp. 81-98. (doi: 10.1080/00420980500409276)

Abstract

This paper offers an interpretation of how housing markets work which complements more traditional economic approaches. Building on a wider movement within cultural economy and economic sociology, it considers how (housing) markets are variously performed in the power-filled negotiations of buyers, sellers and market professionals. This is part of a larger undertaking, but here the focus is particularly on the role of legal, financial and information intermediaries in shaping local cultures of property exchange. This is a social rather than economic analysis of housing markets; it is a qualitative rather than a quantitative study. It is designed to shed light on how markets are made, though it might, in the end, change the way they are modelled.

• Item Type: Articles
• Keywords: Housing
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Munro, Professor Moira
• Authors: Smith, S., Munro, M., and Christie, H.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Urban Studies
• Journal Name: Urban Studies
• ISSN: 0042-0980