PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Nemati, Mehdi
AU  - Sneed, Michelle
AU  - Dinar, Ariel
TI  - Impact of Land Subsidence on Housing Sale Values
AID  - 10.3368/le.102.1.092324-0083R
DP  - 2026 Jan 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 27--48
VI  - 102
IP  - 1
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/102/1/27.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/102/1/27.full
AB  - This study assesses the impact of land subsidence on housing sale values in the San Joaquin Valley, California. The study uses home sale transactions and vertical land-surface displacement data from interferometric synthetic aperture radar techniques. Using fine-scale fixed effects, matching, and a repeat-sales approach, our results indicate that land subsidence resulted in a 2.4%–5.8% reduction in housing sale values, with the largest reductions occurring in areas where substantial subsidence occurred. Such findings may have implications for groundwater management and can potentially help inform policy design to mitigate the causes and impacts of land subsidence.