The Effect of Noise Barriers on the Market Value of Adjacent Residential Properties

International Real Estate Review

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 113-130

  Julien, Benoit ^a   Lanoie, Paul ^b  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

housing market; noise barriers; repeat sale analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860889045     PISSN: 21548919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.53383/100086     Document Type: Article

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