Structural embeddedness and brokerage in property markets: an iterative approach to evolving market architectures

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