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Irish Housing Amenity ValuEs project (I-HAVE)

• Researchers:

  • Ronan C Lyons (TCD, PI); Tom Gillespie (NUIG), Brian Higgins (Stanford), Finn McLaughlin (Chicago) and Sean Moran (TCD)

• Partners:

  • Economic & Social Research Institute; Environmental Protection Agency; Daft.ie

• Location:

  • Ireland

• Sample:

  • Approximately 2.5 million property listings, sale and rental, from online and newspaper sources; 0.3m property transactions.

• Timeline:

  • 1995-2019

• Theme:

  • Housing Markets

• Description:

  • This project investigates the impact of various location-specific amenities on housing market outcomes, such as sale and rental prices, yields and time to sell. It does this by using a combination of datasets, in particular an incredibly rich dataset of online real estate listings, both sale and rental and covering all of Ireland since 2006. Other datasets include a matched dataset of transactions, energy ratings and listings since 2010, and smaller listings datasets, from online and newspaper sourced over the period 1995-2005. Each paper assesses the impact of one specific amenity, including flood risk, FDI employment, access to blue space and green space amenities, urban rail and schools.

• Publications:

  • “How do households perceive flood-risk? The impact of flooding on the cost of accommodation in Dublin, Ireland“ Salem Gharbia, Ronan C Lyons & Francesco Pilla. Science of the Total Environment (2019). Working paper version.

  • “The impact of employment on housing prices: detailed evidence from FDI in Ireland“ Kerri Agnew & Ronan Lyons. Regional Science and Urban Economics (2018), 70. pp. 174-189. Final Working paper.

• Working Papers:

  • “Picture or Playground: Valuing Coastal Amenities“ Tom Gillespie, Stephen Hynes & Ronan C Lyons. Trinity Economic Papers tep0518, May 2018. Under review. Sample media coverage: Irish Times, thejournal.ie Irish Examiner, World Property Journal.