Metro station inauguration, housing prices, and transportation accessibility: Tehran case study

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2021

Subject Area

place - asia, place - urban, mode - bus rapid transit, mode - subway/metro, land use - impacts

Keywords

Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), transit stations, Metro stations, public transport, residential property values, real estate prices

Abstract

The opening of a new metro station, as a mode of the transportation corridor, potentially could have different effects on housing prices. We have investigated its effect on the value of residential properties around those stations, using data from large expansions of the metro network in Tehran, Iran. In the period of our study (April 2010 to December 2018), forty-five metro stations were inaugurated in Tehran. We use a difference-in-difference regression method to identify the causal effect of interest, where adjacent properties are used as the treatment group and similar but distant properties as the control group. The results indicate that, on average, the adjacent properties are affected by a 3.7 percent increase in price relative to distant properties. We also extend our study by categorizing new metro stations according to the extent of ex-ante access to other modes of public transportation such as bus rapid transit (BRT). We find 2 to 11 percent positive effect of new metro stations in regions with lower public transport, while in regions with ex-ante extensive public transportation system, we find less than 2 percent positive effect.

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Permission to publish the abstract and link to the article has been given by Journal of Transport and Land Use, copyright remains with them.

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