While urban renewal programs have become widely-used policy measures to target urban development, the reasons why certain areas are more responsive to policy interventions than others are less known. With this study, we address some of these issues by analyzing an urban renewal program in Berlin, Germany, with 22 designated renewal zones between 1990 and 2012. We separately estimate the effects of the renewal policy on property prices for each respective redevelopment area by comparing price developments in these areas to a series of runner-up areas and to geographically close transactions. We find a considerable amount of heterogeneity. While some areas profit from the renewal policies, there are several areas which develop quite differently and end up with a decrease in property prices due to the urban renewal policy.
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Ahlfeldt, G. M., Maennig, W., & Richter, F. J. (2017). Zoning in reunified Berlin. In One Hundred Years of Zoning and the Future of Cities (pp. 123–137). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66869-7_6
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