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Performing (Housing) Markets

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  • Susan J. Smith

    (Department of Geography, University of Durham, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK. Fax: 0191 334 1801, susanj.smith@durham.ac.uk)

  • Moira Munro

    (Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, 25 Bute Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RS, UK)

  • Hazel Christie

    (Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9XP, UK. Fax: 0131 650 2524, hazel.christie@ed.ac.uk)

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.

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  • Susan J. Smith & Moira Munro & Hazel Christie, 2006. "Performing (Housing) Markets," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 43(1), pages 81-98, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:43:y:2006:i:1:p:81-98
    DOI: 10.1080/00420980500409276
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