The London Auction Mart and the Marketability of Real Estate in England, 1808–1864

Bibliographic Data

ID10068261
AuthorsDesmond Fitz-Gibbon (corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume55
Issue2
Pages295-319
Publication date2016-03-11
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of British Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9371 • E-ISSN: 1545-6986
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/jbr.2015.228
OpenAlexW2301870113
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited30

This article considers the cultural work of commoditization through the example of the London Auction Mart and the market for real estate in early nineteenth-century England. The auctioneers who founded this exchange sought to reconfigure the organization of property sales in an institution that would bring order and transparency to a world of informal institutions, local markets, and private exchange. The Auction Mart made visible the idea of a universal, abstract property market. At the same time, it offered a new social and cultural space in which to negotiate the often contradictory meanings of marketable property. This work of making the property market meaningful is told through institutional archives, published accounts, diaries, and estate correspondence

Business · Commoditization · Economics · Estate · Market economy · Negotiation · Order (exchange · Political science · Property (philosophy · Real estate · Transparency (behavior · Work (physics · Engineering · Finance · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law

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