DISCUSSION ESSAY

Answer 1 out of 2 questions

First, read:

Seabrooke, L. and Wigan, D., 2017. The governance of global wealth chains.

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Hofman, A. and Aalbers, M.B., 2019. A finance-and real estate-driven regime in the United

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Geoforum ,100

Mulhearn, C. and Franco, M., 2018. If you build it will they come? The boom in purpose-built student accommodation in central Liverpool: Destudentification, studentification and the future of the city.
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Question 1 – 50 marks

1.Figure 1 (below) shows the top 12 offshore property investors whoown multiple properties by volume (on the vertical axis) and levels of deprivation (on the horizontal axis) in the Liverpool and Merseyside Area (LMA). In addition, there are approximately 16% of investors who are single unit purchasers (they own one house). Using the Global Wealth Chain typology of Seabrooke and Wigan (2017) what type of wealth chain is each of these investors likely to employ and why?