Simmons, K M and Sutter, D (2007) Tornado shelters and the housing market. Construction Management and Economics, 25(11), pp. 1119-1126. ISSN 01446193
Abstract
Mitigation against natural hazards often involves long-lived, immobile investments. Home owners must be able to capture the present value of future benefits to equate the private and societal return on mitigation. The capitalization of mitigation into home prices thus is crucial for home owners to have a proper incentive for mitigation. We investigate the existence of a premium for tornado shelters using home sales in Oklahoma City, where the deadly tornado outbreak of 3 May 1999 and the Oklahoma Saferoom Initiative increased public awareness of tornado shelters. We find that a shelter increases the sale price of a home by 3.5% to 4% or approximately $4200 given the mean price of homes sold in 2005. The magnitude of the premium is plausible given that shelters retail for $2500-$3000 installed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | mitigation; multiple regression; natural disasters; prices; tornado shelters |
| Index terms: | mitigation, natural hazard, housing, multiple-regression, natural disaster, owner, outbreak |
| Subjects: | financial risk, health risk and incident analysis, construction type, statistical analysis, environmental hazards, sociology |
| Topics: | Sustainability, Research Practice, Construction Technology, Stakeholder Management, Cost Management, Health and Safety |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 PCA |
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