Calculated Affection? Charting the Complex Economy of Home Purchase
Open Access
- 1 March 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Housing Studies
- Vol. 23 (2) , 349-367
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02673030701875097
Abstract
This paper highlights some widely cited but rarely elaborated ‘local factors’ influencing housing market dynamics. Adopting a microstructural perspective, the focus is on home purchase in order to complement a literature that often concentrates on the way properties are sold. Drawing from over 90 qualitative interviews from a single compact city, housing markets are characterised as collective calculating devices, whose networks of people, things, materials and relationships are engaged in the practice of price. It is argued that price is an affective as well as an economic affair, whose volatility is more an expression of sociality and emotional intelligence than an exercise in irrational exuberance.Keywords
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