Crisis and the Reproduction of Core-Periphery Relations on the Hungarian Housing Market

Zsuzsanna Pósfai; Gábor Nagy

doi:10.1515/esrp-2017-0007

Authors

Zsuzsanna Pósfai Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Institute for Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, ‘Alfold’ department, H-5600 Békéscsaba, Szabó Dezso Street 42, Hungary
Gábor Nagy Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Institute for Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, ‘Alfold’ department, H-5600 Békéscsaba, Szabó Dezso Street 42, Hungary

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1515/esrp-2017-0007

Keywords:

uneven development, housing, spatial fix, global financial crisis, Hungary

Abstract

Housing markets can be understood as indicators of the spatial pattern of capital investment under contemporary financial capitalism. We take this point of entry in order to analyze core-periphery relations around the turning point of the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 on the Hungarian housing market. The instance of crisis sheds light on patterns of homogenization and differentiation; the effects of which can be understood by exploring housing market activity on various scales from the European to the local/regional. We argue that these two patterns of uneven development are inextricably linked and result in deepening sociospatial polarization.

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