This is the fifth in a series of posts about housing values in the historic Bon Air Neighborhood.as defined by the following boundaries: Furman Blvd on the east, Hikes Lane on the south, Bardstown Road on the East, and the Watterson Expressway/Taylorsville Rd on the North.
The database for this research was created from the Jefferson County Property Valuation Administrator (PVA) website and the Lojic.org website. Both have similar data, but the PVA site could be pasted into an Excel file. The database was compiled between February 2019 and December 2019. The information was subject to some change based on property sales and re-evaluations.
The statistical software that is being used for the analysis is JASP which is an open source program created by the University of Amsterdam.
The database for this research was created from the Jefferson County Property Valuation Administrator (PVA) website and the Lojic.org website. Both have similar data, but the PVA site could be pasted into an Excel file. The database was compiled between February 2019 and December 2019. The information was subject to some change based on property sales and re-evaluations.
The statistical software that is being used for the analysis is JASP which is an open source program created by the University of Amsterdam.
This particular post is subject to more interpretation given the data sources. Understanding what single family homes precisely are rentals is not possible. There were some houses that were obviously rentals as the owner was a limited liability corporation (LLC). Some homes were owned by trusts that for the purposes of this study are being called "Unknown." Early in the data collection in 2019, the PVA had open access to the detailed information that included the "contact address" for the property. (That access ended when reassessment time was over.)
This particular variable was akin to what researchers call a "convenience sample" because some anecdotal evidence was used regarding known rental properties. It was evident that the contact address was not the Bon Air property itself, which suggests that the property was a rental. It is likely that there are more rental properties than could clearly be identified.
Anyway, according to the database there are 229 properties or 11.6 percent of the single-family homes in the Bon Air Neighborhood boundaries that are either owned by LLC's or trusts. For the record, one of the single-family homes on Hikes Lane is a business. One was foreclosed at the time of the collection and its current status was not clarified. .
The Bon Air zone is clearly the area with the most rentals with 139 properties that were either owned by LLC's or Trusts. The Highgate Springs zone has 76 properties that are either rentals or owned by trusts. The Bon Air Estates has 14 properties .
The last subject to explore in this post is: What are the streets where the rentals are? (If the table is a little small for your eyes, you can press [ctrl] and move your mouse wheel forward to zoom). Talisman Road in Highgate Springs and Terrier Lane in Bon Air tied for having the most rentals or possible rentals with 16. Meadow Lane (Bon Air), Stanton Blvd (Highgate Springs) , and Rio Rita Avenue (Bon Air) tied for second with 12. Doreen Way and Boaires Lane tied for third with nine.
Next week I will further discuss if there are any landlords who own multiple homes in the neighborhood.