“…The housing sector today plays a prominent role in the globalization of national and urban political economies (Wetzstein, 2017). Besides being the driving force of the political economy, housing is also affected by a variety of factors, such as processes of urbanization (Zarghamfard et al , 2020), suburbanization (Andreasen et al , 2017), housing commodification (Zarghamfard and Meshkini, 2021; Chen and Wu, 2020), migration and spatial patterns (Meen, 1999), wave effect (Huang, 2011; Meen, 1996), spatial diffusion (Zhu and Zhang, 2021), demographic issues (Ghaedrahmati and Zarghamfard, 2021), political relations (Jaupart, 2020), financial intermediaries (Reher, 2021), characteristics of urban area (Gu et al , 2020), social stratification (Han et al , 2021), overflow effects (Liang et al , 2018), private partnership initiatives (Lau, 2005), land issues (Meshkini et al , 2019; Liang et al , 2020), development of transportation lines (Baker et al , 2021), housing policy processes (Jaupart, 2020), market bubbles (Ayub et al , 2020), individual preferences and life quality (Shaw, 2004), asset management (Marchesi and Tweed, 2021), income conditions (Zhao et al , 2021), construction techniques and technologies (Raj et al , 2021), savings programs (Chen et al , 2020), tax policies (Guo and Jiang, 2021), trading cycles (Chen and Zhao, 2021), novel rental constructions (Murie and Rowlands, 2008), globalization of housing investment processes (Wetzstein, 2017) identified as the drivers of housing sector in the literature.…”