Is the Risk of Sea Level Rise Capitalized in Residential Real Estate?

Justin Murfin, Matthew Spiegel and Jose Scheinkman

The Review of Financial Studies, 2020, vol. 33, issue 3, 1217-1255

Abstract: Using a comprehensive database of coastal home sales merged with data on elevation relative to local tides, we compare prices for houses based on their inundation threshold under projections of sea level rise. The analysis separates the sensitivity of housing to rising seas from other confounding characteristics by exploiting cross-sectional differences in relative sea level rise due to vertical land motion. This provides variation in the expected time to inundation for properties of similar elevation and distance from the coast. In a variety of specifications and test settings, we find precisely estimated null results suggesting limited price effects.

JEL-codes: G10 Q54 R30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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