Noise level in relation to real estate prices in selected settlements in Poland

Krajewska, Malgorzata & Kinga Szopinska

Acoustic climate of a given area ought to be a factor of considerable significance in investment processes in an urbanized area, especially in a residential real estate market, due to its extensive influence on the living standards of its inhabitants. In the following article the authors have given an analysis of the residential market of housing units located in areas of acceptable and excessive noise levels in preselected regions of Poland. With this end in view an entirely new source of information, has been used in the research an acoustic map which has been defined and applied to produce the outcome of the analysis. It allowed for the recognition of whether or not the noise level influences decisions made by investors existing in a local residential real estate market.

Event: FIG Working Week 2012 : Territory, environment, and cultural heritage

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