First published: 11 August 2020 (online)Print: Februray 2021International audienceThis paper advances a research agenda on how asset-based welfare policies, residential marketvolatility, stratified accumulation and vulnerability impinge upon the geography of inequality inproperty markets. Since the mid-1990s, housing prices have increased faster than the incomeof buyers, becoming a driver of social polarisation and household vulnerability. Few studieshave however explicitly linked socio-spatial inequality to asset capitalisation, instability andvulnerability in residential housing markets. We employ an empirically-grounded investigationof the factors driving and reinforcing these dynamics, what we conceptualise as a feedback loopmediating p...