Structural embeddedness and brokerage in property markets: an iterative approach to evolving market architectures
结合关系思维、经济地理和经济社会学，研究资产管理者如何通过结构性嵌入和中介策略影响巴西房地产市场的动态，采用网络映射与案例研究结合的迭代方法揭示市场架构的演化。
Abstract This article combines insights from relational thinking, economic geography, and economic sociology to provide a powerful lens for understanding contemporary property markets and the rising influence of asset managers in them. Moving beyond cultural, institutional, and cognitive aspects often portrayed by urban studies, it shows how asset managers’ power in dictating property market dynamics is affected by their structural embeddedness and brokerage strategies. We employ an iterative approach that articulates network mapping with qualitative case studies to illuminate the structural–relational configuration of the market and its evolving dynamics, flagging potential market reconfigurations that can affect Brazil’s property market