The Restless Urban Landscape of Housing Financialization: Geographies of Residential Real Estate Investment Trust Expansion in Germany and the United States

The expansion of Residential Real Estate Investment Trusts (R-REITs) represents an important frontier in the financialization of housing and cities. This paper advances the literature on institutional real estate investment and corporate landlordism by analyzing how and where the 15 largest, publicly-listed R-REITS and REIT-like funds in Germany...