Impact of Rising Sea Levels on Coastal Residential Real Estate Assets

Using scenario based stress testing to identify medium (2050) and long term (2100) sea level rise risks

Abstract

This project utilizes a scenario based qualitative stress testing approach to identify US coastal census tracts expected to adversely impacted by sea level rise (SLR) in the medium (2050) and long term (2100). One Baseline and two ‘plausible but severe’ Adverse scenarios were designed covering 1–7ft of sea level rise.

The key observations through this analysis were that that outside of current …

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