Private renting increasingly comprises a complex ecosystem of actors who assemble housing within the market, and collect rental income and data from tenants, and data on the material assets themselves. Our analysis – at the intersection of rentier and platform capitalism – focuses on landed (material real estate) and technological (digital infrastructure and data) property in Australia’s private rental system. Drawing out relationships between the various actors – landlords, rental property managers and real estate agencies, software developers and providers, property developers and investors – and both their properties and their uses of Proptech (property technology), we show how housing and technology are being leveraged for profit in new ways. In Australia, landed property retains its precedence for established (individual and institutional) landlords, whose interest in Proptech relates to enhancing or value-adding to rental housing assets. For Proptech and institutional real estate players seeking to consolidate both landed and technology property, capturing the tech landscape is increasingly important; indeed, securing control and/or consolidation of technology property is a key motivation for building and/or using Proptech among the largest property developers. Our findings show how rent extraction operates across and between different types and scales of property and market actors, and in new ways that differentiate the figure of the rentier while upholding the dynamics of the rentier model.

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房地产科技和私人租赁行业：租赁物业和平台租赁化交叉点的新提取形式


私人租赁日益成为一个由参与者组成的复杂生态系统，他们在市场上组装住房，并从租户那里收集租金收入和数据，以及有关物质资产本身的数据。我们的分析——在食利者和平台资本主义的交叉点——重点关注澳大利亚私人租赁系统中的土地（物质房地产）和技术（数字基础设施和数据）财产。我们描绘了不同参与者（房东、租赁物业经理和房地产机构、软件开发商和提供商、房地产开发商和投资者）之间的关系，以及他们的房产和 Proptech（房地产技术）的使用，展示了住房和技术是如何被改变的。以新的方式利用杠杆获取利润。在澳大利亚，有地房产保留了对已建立的（个人和机构）业主的优先权，他们对房地产科技的兴趣与租赁住房资产的增强或增值有关。对于寻求整合土地和技术财产的房地产科技公司和机构房地产参与者来说，占领科技领域变得越来越重要。事实上，确保对技术财产的控制和/或整合是最大的房地产开发商建设和/或使用 Proptech 的关键动机。我们的研究结果表明，租金提取如何在不同类型和规模的财产和市场参与者之间进行运作，并以新的方式区分食利者的形象，同时维持食利者模型的动态。