Abstract
ABSTRACT Childcare services are a key part of the social infrastructure of cities. Yet childcare property has recently been signaled as one of the fastest growing alternative real estate investment opportunities within a number of neoliberalized childcare markets. Shedding light on this phenomenon, in this paper I examine how urban childcare property has become an attractive option for individual investors in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Speaking to the literature on urban financialization and the neoliberalization of care, I examine the relationship between the privatization of childcare services and the growth of the childcare property market; the work of property agents as key intermediaries in shaping the terrain of investment into childcare property; and the passive investor subject which is envisioned. Ultimately, I argue that the role of the state has been crucial to the formation of this recent property investment trend in NZ, setting in place the conditions for assetization to occur.
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