Cell Phone Tower Proximity Impacts on House Prices: A New Zealand Case Study

Bond, Sandy

doi:10.1080/14445921.2007.11104223

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“…A similar temporal conundrum is found in the proximity variables featured in Bond (2007a): inverse distance and 300‐m distance bands to cell tower. Both variables are dominated by market changes over time.…”

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confidence: 65%

“…Recent cell tower research outside of New Zealand includes Bond (2007b) which analysed of the house price effects of proximity to cell phone towers in Orange County, Florida, USA. Unfortunately, this study suffers from the same errors as Bond and Wang (2005) and Bond (2007a) in that the variable of interest is the same dichotomous TOWER variable discussed above. Despite including a series of dummy variables accounting for year of sale over the study's 11‐year time frame, the TOWER variable would still have been influenced by variations in market conditions making it impossible to accurately interpret.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…Second, previous studies by Bond and Wang (2005) and Bond (2007a) measure the impact of cell phone towers by broadly generalising the year of when the tower was integrated. Clearly this allows for price effects to be estimated where in fact no nearby cell tower existed at the time of sale.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As clearly expressed in the HVTL literature, proximity is of paramount importance and needs to be measured accurately. Later, Bond (2007a) “refined” her 2005 study by employing a geographic information system (GIS) to geocode residential sales and tower locations and then compute the straight‐line distances between them.…”

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The impact of proximity to cell phone towers on residential property values

Filippova

Rehm

2011

International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis

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PurposeThis paper aims to determine if proximity to cell phone towers influences house prices with a focus on isolating the impact of tower aesthetics on nearby property values.Design/methodology/approachSales transaction data from the Auckland Region during 2005‐2007 were analysed using a series of hedonic models testing various proximity specifications across two populations of cell towers: residential‐only and global (all towers).FindingsThe study could not establish a relationship between cell towers and house prices with the exception of armed monopole towers located in residential areas due to such towers' acute visual disamenity.Practical implicationsThe study's findings can be directly applied to residential valuation practice and can assist government regulators and telecommunication companies in siting new cell towers.Originality/valueThis research provides three distinct methodological improvements: unconventional geocoding that improves spatial accuracy, separate analysis of towers in residential areas that enhances internal validity and inclusion of tower mast data to isolate the impact of tower aesthetics.

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The impact of proximity to cell phone towers on residential property values

Filippova

Rehm

2011

International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis

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“…Unregulated land markets suffer from endemic problems resulting from the systematic externalities associated with land use, especially in the more densely developed context of cities (Cheshire, 2013). Recent empirical examples assessing the effects of "nuisances" include studies of wind farms (Sims et al, 2008), mobile cell phone masts (Bond, 2007) and airport noise (Cohen and Coughlin, 2008).…”

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Externalities and planning failure in the housing market of an African city

Akinbogun

Jones

2018

IJHMA

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Purpose Planning is logically applied to address negative externalities, but an alternative is financial compensation to the victim of negative spillover effects. This paper aims to examine the rent discount required to compensate tenants in an African city for a negative externality of the location of a grave within the bounds of their home. It also assesses the suitability of this as a remedy. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts a discrete choice experiment to analyse tenants’ acceptability of the level of rent discounts when a grave is imposed on their home. Findings The study estimates that tenants in the Nigerian city of Akure require between 15 per cent and 20 per cent reduction in the rental value of a residential property to compensate for the imposition of a grave. However, many households would prefer to move elsewhere rather than negotiate a discount. Others, especially those on low incomes, were likely to suffer the loss of welfare without a rent discount. The study concludes that a compensatory approach is not an acceptable solution for welfare issues caused by the planning failure. Research limitations/implications The investigation is based on a hypothetical choice experiment. However, the results obtained are subject to a series of validation processes. Practical implications As reductions in the rent to compensate for the effect of a grave in a private home are unlikely in a market with excess demand, it is a clear argument for effective planning and environmental law. Originality/value This study is the first to assess the impact of negative externalities on the housing market of an African city.

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