Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

2-2018

Abstract

In Singapore, a real estate developer sells new apartments in the same high-rise development before and after obtaining green certification. This allows the use of within-development variation in prices over time to measure the effect of green certification on housing prices, controlling for differences across developments. I find that green certification increases prices by around 3%, suggesting that buyers value certification, possibly because it signals the presence of less-salient green features. Moreover, the effect of certification is biggest for developments that receive the lowest green rating, which likely have fewer green features and are thus less obviously green.

Keywords

Green building, Green labels, Sustainability, Housing prices

Discipline

Asian Studies | Real Estate

Research Areas

Applied Microeconomics

Publication

Economics Letters

Volume

163

First Page

36

Last Page

39

ISSN

0165-1765

Identifier

10.1016/j.econlet.2017.11.033

Publisher

Elsevier

Additional URL

http://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2017.11.033

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