Stigmatised Property: A Method of Comparing Blights

Stigmatised (or blighted) property is real estate burdened with an external negative effect. This external effect can reduce the property's market value through a particular, multi-layered filter. The author examines the professional literature's cases of stigmatised property and proposes to create a metric for comparison. A focus group of 19 experts examined and individually evaluated the effects along 6 different dimensions. The author suggests that it is possible to estimate the stigma's effect and compare different cases to one another effectively.