Comparison of noise environment of residences in Nagoya, Japan and in Beijing, China

Does noise have a stationary impact on residential values?

“…Therefore, although the exposure level is maintained throughout the day, people feel more disturbed during resting-periods, especially at night if sleep disruptions occur and at weekends (Bristow and Wardman, 2006). Kuno et al (1993) have suggested that lifestyle and dependence on sound sources (i.e. cars), also have an influence on the sounds that are interpreted as noise.…”

“…extrinsic attributes have on property values in relation to the possible existence of submarkets. It would thus be plausible to expect that noise affects differently the hedonic function of flats that belong to different submarkets, because either they have different building attributes and architectonic characteristics like large terraces or community spaces inherently exposed to noise pollution (Marmolejo and Romano, 2009), or the sensitivity of the users is different (Kuno et al, 1993;Daumal, 2002). Therefore, from the theoretical perspective the implicit price of 1 dB is not necessarily the same in different market segments or in different locations subjected to different noise levels.…”

Social Survey on Traffic Noise for the City of Porto Alegre, Brazil

“…A comparison between the results found in this work and those of developed countries shows the gap separating both realities. It is such that Lang [7] shows concern with the fact that 15% of the population of the European Community is exposed to a noise level exceeding 65 dB(A). that he refers as being considered as an absolute upper acceptable limit.…”