Do speed bumps affect house values?

Kinski

MacMickster wrote: »

Personally, I see speed bumps and immediately regard the neighbourhood as a bad area, plagued by car crime and anti-social behaviour.

What a load of rubbish, we moved to a new house last year and we have speed bumps in the street. The street we live in is certainly not in a bad area, we are also not plagued by car crime or anti social behaviour. The house we bought had six offers on it and we had to go way over the asking price to secure it. I'd love to know where you got your idea from.

Haylescom

MacMickster speed cameras are only usually deployed where there have been a certaind number of serious injuries or deaths, not for general speeding.

DRP

If a street has an issue with dikheads driving too fast, then speed bumps are a useful solution.

I'd probably see it as a positive.

boliston

alchemist.1 wrote: »

They tend to be common near schools too so not necessarily a reflection on the area.

I live near a school so hope there are no plans to install these things - it mainly seems to be council estates that install them rather than streets with privately owned properties.

SailorSam

I'd rather have a few speed bumps up & down the road than speeding motorists.

Davesnave

boliston wrote: »

I live near a school so hope there are no plans to install these things - it mainly seems to be council estates that install them rather than streets with privately owned properties.

I think people's perception of them is coloured by limited personal experience.

I can recall speed bumps that have been installed as part of traffic calming and general improvement in areas with high levels of social housing, but I can also think of strategic ones used to dissuade motorists from using rat runs in some quite expensive areas.

There are also the private ones in posh places and some deliberately potholed unadopted roads. We had both of those near my old home in Bath, and believe me, the roads where they existed were well beyond the average pocket!

Then there are the really interesting ones in the countryside where I live now. These run parallel to the road instead of across it. Go too fast, hit one of those and you're deposited in the nearest hedge or field. Instant justice!

fed_up_and_stressed

When I was viewing properties last year I absolutely discounted one property because the entire area it was on was nothing but speed bumps. I could not be doing with that day in day out when I was driving.

Shame actually cause it was quite a nice property but the tons of speed bumps in the area was the turn off factor for me. If it had just been a small area then I would have accepted it but the entire area was just speed bump after speed bump after speed bump.

AnnieO1234

It would certainly put me off the property, speed bumps on the road would be bad enough but directly outside the house. If I'm put off I'm sure there'll be others like me. xxx

boliston

My main mode of transport is cycling and speed bumps are far worse for a cyclist than a motorist so that would put me off - also some of them have "cushions" that cause motorists to swerve onto the wrong side of the road to avoid them even if means almost hitting someone else head on.

teddysmum

Speed humps are not a positive, if you have no choice but to drive your car over them twice daily. This cannot be good for your car's suspension and some lower slung cars are damaged by scraping on the top of humps, many of which in our area, are built too high for the recommendations.


Some laid past a school (where they are useless, as at school in/out times traffic crawls anyway, due to bad parking),are bordered on the other side by 1960s terraced houses which have no off-road parking. This means that homeowners park over the humps, causing passing traffic to move to the centre of the road and straddle two humps.


My the way this makes small cars , especially wobble about, I'm amazed that the parked cars aren't damaged (Well, I haven't actually seen any damaged).