A survey of nine studies of areas in Canada and U.S.A. suggests that traffic noise on a main highway decreases the price of a house by between 8 and 10 per cent. But mobility is not affected, as there is no increase in selling time.
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Jon P. Nelson (1982) studied this question.
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