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Article Dans Une Revue International Journal of Housing Policy Année : 2019

The top tail of the property wealth distribution and the production of the residential environment

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This article investigates the ways in which the structure of the private ownership of property affects the operation of land and housing markets. It draws on detailed Land Registry data to identify the types of actors found at the top of the property wealth distribution in Dudelange, Luxembourg, and to gauge their respective influence on the production of the residential environment. While the top tail is made up of property developers, landowners and super-landlords, an analysis of the planning and land assembly processes for six large scale residential developments in the city since the 1970s shows that the production of housing is driven by a small group of tightly interconnected private landowners and property developers. The level of property wealth concentration in a given territory is thus not innocuousit affects the production of the residential environment, especially when multiple property ownership is interlinked with the concentrated control over residential land. The study complements discussions on the relation between property, wealth and the production of housing that focus on homeowners, small-scale private landlords and the super-rich (on the consumption side) and, on the production side, on selected actors such as financialised property developers and public landowners.

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hal-04406109 , version 1 (19-01-2024)

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Antoine Paccoud. The top tail of the property wealth distribution and the production of the residential environment. International Journal of Housing Policy, 2019, 20 (1), pp.100-119. ⟨10.1080/19491247.2019.1658562⟩. ⟨hal-04406109⟩
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