• Gemeente Amsterdam Cluster Ruimte en Economie,
• Directie Metropoolregio Amsterdam,
• Amsterdam Economic Board

• Wetenschappelijk

• Bouwen & Wonen

After the crisis is before the crisis: Reading property market shifts through Amsterdam’s changing landscape of property investors

Shifts in property markets are closely tied to changes in investment actors’ relations, shaped by wider economic and regulatory processes. However, the existing literature generally neglects the role of actors’ behaviour and agency within property market shifts, and how market shifts affect cities. In response, we establish a framework that systematically unpacks the role, characteristics and behaviour of property investors in investment market shifts within urban development. We consider market shifts as modifications to established economic and regulatory processes and argue that a multidimensional approach is required to understand property investors and their role within property investment markets that shapes the urban built environment. Empirically, we focus on Amsterdam’s changing investor landscape over the last 15 years. We investigate how crises, represented by far-reaching institutional disruptions of economic and regulatory systems, relate to Amsterdam’s landscape of property investors.

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