TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fitz-Gibbon,Desmond
TI  - Marketable values: inventing the property market in modern Britain 
SN  - 9780226584478
AV  - HD593 .F58 2018eb
U1  - 333.30941 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Real property
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Marketing
KW  - Real property auctions
KW  - Biens r�eels
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e si�ecle
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Economics
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Real Estate
KW  - fast
KW  - Auktion
KW  - gnd
KW  - Grundeigentum
KW  - Gro�britannien
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: locating the property market -- The marketplace -- Market people -- Calculating the market -- States of marketability -- The limits of marketability -- Conclusion: "property for the million."
N2  - 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? 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
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