Matthieu Vogt

Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White

I have an article in the Guardian today on how finance capitalism is wreaking havoc on housing across Europe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

And important to keep in mind: “residential property investors seem to look for a way to increase rents and/or price when selling. One interviewee (4) expressed this very clearly: “as a developer or as an investor you look at that market and you can say ‘okay what can I do to drive rents?’”.”

Also new evidence regarding investors strategies after 2022 (and the evolution of interest rate)

Geography of investments is also discussed (strong difference there too)

2 markets perceived as “highly regulated” by investors (France and Sweden residential markets) but with strong difference regarding the share of the private rental stock being owned by them: we try to understand why there is such a difference.

Really happy about this work with Jennie Gustafsson (@jiegson.bsky.social)
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Perfect way to start the summer with a new publication part of the Studies in Housing and Welfare’s working paper series: Variegated Experiences of Rental Housing Financialization: Residential Property Investors in France and Sweden, with @matthieuvogt.bsky.social: urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=...

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

(which would facilitate access to property for all)

(ii) T. Piketty suggests inheritance for all, which seems like an interesting idea.

Two things that come to mind: (i) how hard is rent control in Ireland? Because rent control may aim to reduce rent prices or "just" to limit rent increases. In a market where rents are already very high, the latter seems a bit inadequate to me.

They also came first in the 35-49 (more tightly), where the shares of tenants and owners with mortgage are high (I didn’t see any data on the vote according to tenants/owner status).

But SF came first in the 18-34 years old, where the share of tenants is the highest. And in these age groups FF and FG results are low.