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The Impact (Blight) on House Value Caused by Urban Landslides in England and Wales

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We examine how large, slow moving landslides impact urban house prices in three areas of England and Wales. 12,663 house transaction values were analysed covering all house sales 1995–2012 in Lyme Regis, Dorset; Ventnor, Isle of Wight and Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. Values were analysed with respect to local landslide events and visible landslide damage. In all three study areas, individual landslide events caused little or no negative impacts on nearby property prices, though remediation is likely to have short-term positive impacts on local house prices. Localised blight and suppressed house prices to a distance of 75 m was found in areas affected by ongoing incipient movement. By comparison with other sources of property blight, the radius of influence is 25% of that expected from an abandoned property or electricity pylon and less than 5% that of a windfarm. The socio-economic environment was important in determining the degree of house price impact of landslide events and for most locations, landslides form only a minor impact compared to other factors.

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  1. University of Portsmouth, Centre for Applied Geoscience (CAG), Portsmouth, P01 3QL, UK

    William Disberry, Andy Gibson, Rob Inkpen, Malcolm Whitworth & Mike Winter

  2. British Geological Survey, Nottingham, NG2 3GG, UK

    Claire Dashwood

  3. Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), 108 Swanston Steading, 109 Swanston Road, Edinburgh, EH10 7DS, UK

    Mike Winter

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Correspondence to Andy Gibson .

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  1. Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Matjaž Mikoš

  2. Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Vít Vilímek

  3. China Institute of Geo-Environment Monitoring, China Geological Survey, Beijing, China

    Yueping Yin

  4. International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), Kyoto, Japan

    Kyoji Sassa

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Disberry, W., Gibson, A., Inkpen, R., Whitworth, M., Dashwood, C., Winter, M. (2017). The Impact (Blight) on House Value Caused by Urban Landslides in England and Wales . In: Mikoš, M., Vilímek, V., Yin, Y., Sassa, K. (eds) Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides. WLF 2017. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53483-1_5

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