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Why do wind farms drag down house prices in some places but not others?

19 October 2016

Two years ago, the London School of Economics delivered bad news to the renewables industry. It published a research paper that showed that house price appreciation was significantly reduced by being near wind farms in England and Wales. This overturned previous work in both the US and UK which had found no robust evidence of a negative effect.

This article was published online by The Conversation on October 19, 2016
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Related publications
Gone with the Wind: Valuing the Visual Impacts of Wind Turbines through House Prices, Stephen Gibbons, SERC Discussion Paper No.159, April 2014
Gone with the Wind, Stephen Gibbons. Article in CentrePiece Volume 19, Issue 2, Autumn 2014

Related links
Stephen Gibbons webpage
Urban and Spatial Programme webpage

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