"The Ministry of Health report put an end to the future of the city of Haifa and its real estate that received a death blow",
This is what Haim Atkin, a certified real estate appraiser, says, and adds, "In the era we live in today, we have stopped fighting for our lives and we are fighting for the quality of our lives, and this is reflected in the prices of residential properties that have long passed the test of achieving the "roof of the roof" and the compromises that people were once willing to make do, they disappear."
"If until today Haifa participated in the celebration of the increase in apartment prices, then the Ministry of Health's report put an end to the future of the city and its real estate, which received a death blow whose consequences will reverberate for many years within the walls of the courts and the residents of Haifa and the Kiryat will pay the price not only with their lives but also in their pockets," so Says Haim Atkin, a real estate appraiser, following the Ministry of Health's report that revealed alarming data yesterday, revealing that between 1998-2007, residents of the Haifa area had 16% more cancer compared to the rest of the country in 16 out of 18 types of cancer tested. When cancer types causally related to air pollution were examined - the data were even more clear. For example, in Haifa, the chance of getting lung cancer was 29% higher compared to the rest of the country, and the chance of getting bladder cancer was 26% higher. The Ministry of Health estimates that out of 4,860 cancer cases in those years, about 780 of them are the result of exposure to air pollution in the area and that 50% of cancer cases in children in Haifa are a result of air pollution.
According to Atkin, the damage to the value of each family home is on the order of NIS 200 multiplied by 200 families, this is a cumulative damage and loss of 40 billion NIS. The property and vice versa, nuisances and hazards harm the value. Damage to one or more of the properties of the land, harms and detracts from the value. "Land properties": light, air quality, visibility, noise, view, radiation or smell, ground vibrations or air pollution.
Atkin gives an explanation of the factors of real estate value:
The value of a property embodies the sum of all the benefits and pleasures from it and the larger the list of benefits, the greater the value of the property and vice versa, annoyances and hazards harm the value. The benefit and enjoyment can be actual and tangible physical things that can be actually measured and quantified, such as area, floor, elevator, covered private parking, warehouse, number of rooms, air directions and more.
The benefit and pleasure can also be an economic benefit - income of money. A source of generating cash, for example income from rent or from a particularly successful business activity and the examples of this are many such as: at a gas station, a kiosk on site or a retirement home a hotel. A real estate whose value is closely related to the income it generates and the value of the property is affected by this income.
The benefits and pleasures can be visual, service or psychological. A beautiful landscape, a special building style, proximity to developed and advanced educational institutions, the existence of high-quality municipal services for the well-being of the resident, good neighbors, high air quality and environmental quality, alongside good available and advanced medical and transportation services or living near power lines or cellular antennas or other radiation centers, or other nuisances and hazards such as smells, noise, etc. It is important to remember that changing tastes affect the value since what was considered IN yesterday may be OUT tomorrow and vice versa and this is why areas that were previously considered allocated become trendy.
The pleasures and benefits can also be simulated, such as living next door to a high-level personality or next door to a celebrity, actor or stunning model or star, which increases the value, or God forbid, a property that has suffered a tragedy, disaster, or damage. So the value in the eyes of mankind is damaged and the property becomes unlucky for us and as one that is difficult to rent or sell and it is on the shelf for a long time.
The many factors of environmental quality, including air quality, noise, radiation and pollution, proximity to a main transportation route, and others, have become value factors of great importance in recent years, and civilizations attach great importance to them, all due to the growing awareness and the endless search for a quality of life that creates, in the eyes of civilizations, a feeling of health and longevity. Berry because everyone is looking for, if not quality of life.
"In the era in which we live today, we have stopped fighting for our lives and we are fighting for the quality of our lives and this is reflected in the prices of residential properties that have long since passed the test of achieving the "roof over the roof" and the compromises that people were once willing to make, disappear to them."
"What the Ministry of Health published in connection with the incidence of cancer in Haifa, has been well known by hundreds of thousands of residents of Haifa and the Kiryat for decades. The cancer incidence figure is only one of the list of damages suffered by the residents of Haifa and the Kiryat and I am sure that/if a study is conducted on birth defects it will reveal a similar phenomenon. Haifa and the Kiryat are poisoned when they are also in the heart of a risk zone and we will only mention the ammonia tank. The head of public health services at the Ministry of Health would do well to publish the findings, an unparalleled courageous act with far-reaching implications that will become clear in the courts in the coming decade in lawsuits that will be filed against the distributors of nuisances and poisons, poisons and odors and who sow death The residents of Haifa and Kiryat have no problem," concludes Atkin.
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