Does an Improved Urban Bus Service Affect House Values? (original) (raw)
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This study aims at testing whether, and to what extent, the overall quality in the supply of an urban bus service translates into higher house values for properties located along the lines; Quebec City, Canada, is used as a case study. The study relies on a database provided by the former Quebec Urban Community Assessment Division and, once filtered, includes 11,291 detached and attached single-family house sales that took place in Quebec City between January 1993 and February 1997. In addition to sale prices and conditions, property specifics, local amenity and taxation, time trend as well as socioeconomic and overall accessibility attributes, the database also includes mass transit (MT) network quality attributes accounting for bus frequency, route diversity and bus stop accessibility. Three bus service levels are considered—namely regular routes, the Metrobus and the Express—while four mutually exclusive buffer zones are used for measuring house value impacts. All information is ...
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The Impact of Mass Transit on Residential-Property Values
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1977
A major impact of mass transit on property values is the capitalization of the reductions in travel costs (travel savings) afforded by a new transportation alternative. The model of mass transit impact presented improves upon existing models in four ways. First, a statistical method is provided to hold constant the factors that might affect property values other than the transportation improvement. Second, the property value gradient to the CBD can be derived by utilizing empirical estimations. Third, two property value gradients are incorporated into the model to study impact. Finally, a "residualization" process controls multicollinearity among housing attributes. The model is used to estimate the impact of newly introduced bus routes on Denver's residential property values.
Impacts of commuter rail transit on property values - The Montreal North Shore case
Proceedings of the 19th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference - Edinburgh, Scotland, 2012
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