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Do Wind Hazard Mitigation Programs Affect Home Sales Values?

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  • Daniel Petrolia
  • Shea Ishee
  • Seong Yun
  • Reid Cummings
  • Josh Maples

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The FORTIFIED Home Program is a voluntary construction and re-roofing program designed to strengthen residential properties to withstand damages from severe weather events. The FORTIFIED designation framework can accommodate sustainable new home construction and existing property retrofitting efforts. Applying a two-state utility framework to Zillow’s ZTRAX and IBHS’s FORTIFIED designation data, we estimate the effect of a FORTIFIED Home designation on residential property values using sales transactions for coastal Alabama from 2011 to 2021. We add to the growing body of literature examining the relationship between eco-friendly construction applications and home prices by deriving the contribution of a FORTIFIED designation to enhanced risk reduction and lowered insurance costs. The results of our full- and nearest-neighbor-matched sample design suggest a likely price premium significance on the order of 2-4% for FORTIFIED homes.

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  • Daniel Petrolia & Shea Ishee & Seong Yun & Reid Cummings & Josh Maples, 2023. "Do Wind Hazard Mitigation Programs Affect Home Sales Values?," Journal of Real Estate Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(2), pages 137-159, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjerxx:v:45:y:2023:i:2:p:137-159
    DOI: 10.1080/08965803.2022.2066249
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