Marketable Values : Inventing the Property Market in Modern Britain / Desmond Fitz-Gibbon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fitz-Gibbon, Desmond, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Real property--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Real property.

Real property--Great Britain--Marketing--History--19th century.

Real property auctions--Great Britain--History.

Real property auctions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The idea that land should be-or even could be-treated like any other commodity has not always been a given. For much of British history, land was bought and sold in ways that emphasized its role in complex networks of social obligation and political power, and that resisted comparisons with more easily transacted and abstract markets. Fast-forward to today, when house-flipping is ubiquitous and references to the fluctuating property market fill the news. How did we get here? In Marketable Values, Desmond Fitz-Gibbon seeks to answer that question. He tells the story of how Britons imagined, organized, and debated the buying and selling of land from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth century. In a society organized around the prestige of property, the desire to commodify land required making it newly visible through such spectacles as public auctions, novel professions like auctioneering, and real estate journalism. As Fitz-Gibbon shows, these innovations sparked impassioned debates on where, when, and how to demarcate the limits of a market society. As a result of these collective efforts, the real estate business became legible to an increasingly attentive public and a lynchpin of modern economic life. Drawing on an eclectic range of sources-from personal archives and estate correspondence to building designs, auction handbills, and newspapers-Marketable Values explores the development of the British property market and the seminal role it played in shaping the relationship we have to property around the world today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Locating the Property Market

1. The Marketplace

2. Market People

3. Calculating the Market

4. States of Marketability

5. The Limits of Marketability

Conclusion: "Property for the Million"

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

9780226584478

022658447X

OCLC:

1061860856