Posted on 05/11/2007 7:01:48 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
Residents of Canada's Dingle Bingle Hill Terrace, Cheapside Street, Ragged Ass Road and Bastard Ward consider yourselves warned: There is a small but noteworthy negative effect between a badly named street and the perceived market value of homes or businesses that reside on it, experts say. "People attach values [to addresses] and pay a premium," said Murtaza Haider, a business professor and director of Ryerson University's Institute of Housing and Mobility. Mr. Haider recently analyzed the property values of 300 homes near Toronto's posh Bloor Street. Controlling for size, he found that having Bloor in the physical address added a statistically significant premium to a property's market worth.
There's also a community called Weedpatch in Kern County, Calif.
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