Does a Nearby Murder Affect Housing Prices and Rents? The Case of Sydney

Anastasia Klimova () and Adrian Lee ()

No 181, Working Paper Series from Finance Discipline Group, UTS Business School, University of Technology, Sydney

Abstract: We measure the impact of murders on prices and rents of homes in Sydney. We find that housing prices fall by 3.9% for homes within 0.2 miles of the murder, in the year following the murder, and weaker results in the second year after a murder. We do not find any effects of murders on rents. Higher media coverage and being located closer to the murder (within 0.1 mile) have no additional effect on prices. Taken together, our findings suggest that proximity to a murder affects nearby property prices, particularly in the first year after the incident.

Keywords: Crime; murder; homicide; house prices; rent; hedonic model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G14 K32 Q51 R2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2014-03-01
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Published as: Klimova, A. and Lee, A. D., 2014, "Does a Nearby Murder Affect Housing Prices and Rents? The Case of Sydney", Economic Record, 90(S), 16-40.

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