Financialization of Latin American Real Estate Markets

Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera is Professor of Urban Planning at the State University of Morelos and John Bousfield Distinguished Visiting Professor in Planning at the University of Toronto. He also works as a planning analyst/consultant and advises to various citizen boards and councils.Luis Alberto Salinas-Arreortua is Professor of Geography at the Institute of Geographic Research, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He teaches geography and urbanism and has published widely on gentrification, housing policy, and urban management.José Gasca Zamora is Professor of Geography at the Institute of Economic Research, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He teaches regional development, management of local and regional development, and analysis of territorial and regional public policies.

• 1. Financing the Territory: The Reconfiguration of Real Estate Markets in Latin America 2. Regulatory configuration, evolution and current status of Real Estate Mutual Funds in Colombia 3. Social housing mortgage securitization and peripheral urbanization in Bogotá’s metropolitan area 4. The New Urban Wastefulness. Financialization of Urban Development in Mexico City 5. Housing financialization: tensions, crises, and evolution 6. From Regulation to Financialization: The Role of the Brazilian State in Housing Markets 7. The territorial dimension of real estate financialization: typologies and topologies of assets in Brazilian REIT’s portfolios 8. REITs: key agents in the expansion of financial investments in the industrial and logistics real estate market in Mexico 9. Financialization processes in the tertiary sector. FIBRAS study case in Mexico City 10. Investment Funds as a movement of the Financial-Real Estate Complex in Brazil 11. The agents of construction, real estate market, and finance towards an expanded field of urban financialization in cities “off the radar” 12. Toward the subordinate financialization of housing in Nicaragua. A critical analysis of Nicaraguan housing policy 13. Variegated urban financialization: implementation of CEPAC in Brazil 14. Megaprojects as testbeds for urban financing models in Latin America: a comparative relational analysis of experiences in Argentina and Brazil