of views of forest land cover on home sale prices and did not exam- ine the influence of views including varying amounts of tree cover in non-forested environments such as residential areas. This should be the subject of future study as the amount of tree cover visible from a property may influence its sale price.
The standard deviation of elevations found within a viewshed indicates the amount of relief in a view and was expected to positively influence home sale prices. Although this variable’s coefficient had the expected sign, it was not significant (p = 0.242711). This indicates that the degree of relief in views does not influence home sale prices in the study area. However, the range of elevations in the study area is fairly low (less than 300 feet), so this may also be the result of low variation in this attribute in the region.
The sign of the dummy variable indicating that a property has a view of downtown St. Paul was negative, the opposite of what was expected. This relationship was significant at the 0.001 level. Calculating the marginal implicit price of downtown St. Paul views at the mean home sale price indicates that views of downtown St. Paul actually reduce home sale prices by $11,944. This, however, may result from the way in which this variable was measured and may not actually indicate negative values. Because this study used a maximum view distance of 1 km, properties located further than 1 km from downtown St. Paul were assumed not have views of the downtown area. It is possible that some of these properties actually