• Metropolitan Region Amsterdam,
• Gemeente Amsterdam Cluster Ruimte en Economie,
• University of Amsterdam

• Academic,
• Interdisciplinary

• Construction & Housing,
• Spatial development

One and the Same? A Systematic Literature Review of Residential Property Investor Types

This article presents a systematic literature review on residential property investor types in selected social science disciplines and critically evaluates the status quo of academic engagement within this diverse group of property market actors. A recurring critique in recent years has been the minimal acknowledgment of investor heterogeneity particularly in relation to urban development andthe financialization of housing. Yet, to date, there is no systematic evidence supporting these contentions. Therefore, we conducted an exhaustive literature review of residential investment landscapes through the Web of Science citation database in the following fields: Urban and regional planning, geography, sociology, urban studies, public administration, and economics. Following a meta-categorization of the results, we demonstrate how existing literature differentiates investors in terms of their spatial scale of operation, size and social composition, investment object and finance, or investment and social behavior.

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