Can anyone share the pros and cons of having a transmission tower close to a property? Approx 59 meters from the property.
Property near a Transmission Tower
monks on 04/10/2024 - 10:13
Last edited 04/10/2024 - 11:03 by 1 other user
Last edited 04/10/2024 - 11:03 by 1 other user
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Do you think it adds value?
hard to say…
I came to this thread just to find these comments. My world is in balance, time to go dig a hole.
I know what you're saying, but actually, you can sometimes hear buzzing or crackling from high tension lines in wet or humid weather.
On the other hand, you should be safe from lightning, as the tower would take any strikes.Corona
Define Transmission tower? Phone tower? NBN Fixed Wireless Tower? TV Tower? Amateur Radio Operator with Tower in their backyard? All have varying differences and often different frequencies/power output.
Tranmission towers are defined. They are high voltage electrical transmission towers (not poles). This isnt as ambiguous as you are suggesting.
Assuming, of course, that OP used the official definition in their 2-sentence post.
I know what this is without clicking on the link. Very cool testing.
Good for cooking at the free park bbq at night
This is the ozbargain way
The fact that this is fresh in my memory fills me with joy
i'd be more concerned if the cows in the paddock underneath the transmission towers were also glowing at night …
pros
You get the same feel as living next to the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Pro - ping on electricity supply is excellent
Fine unless you are Chuck McGill….
Just be careful, you will need a "non-conductive tin foil hat" to live near there. I would consider bismuth or titanium…
Only if you have not taken the covid vaccine.
Beryllium.
My old boss bought and built at Endevour Hills next to the big transmission lines.. he had some testing done prior to buying the land and it all came back within allowances.. What those allowances were I dont know - but I wouldnt do it.
Allowances for 2 headed babies
Allowances for lack of appreciation in property growth and depreciation in buyer interest when selling.
Of course people who think google is “curating” believe whatever yandex is telling them
She's our resident anti vaxxer
Well I guess every village must have an idiot.
Dude, that is literally what google does. It is well documented.
Probably only pros in that the property is likely cheaper.
There's no evidence transmission towers do anything to you.
but be sure to come back when you're 80 years old and tell us how it all went.
If i got to 80 I'd be happy, thats pretty much normal
Life expectancy for males currently at 81 years, so if OP is still actively online then it'll be a decent run of it.
That's life expectancy at birth, you need to check life expectancy for your age.
@rumblytangara: If that's a joke or sarcasm I'm not getting it. Life expectancy can only increase as you get older.
@AccuracyAdvocate: It's probably me not reading carefully enough. Admittedly because the comment from joka wasn't wasn't worth the brain cycles ;)
Rumours and myths on radiation, possibly higher chance of getting cancer, also you would get it cheaper as Chinese investors won't buy it its not good for ying yang
Depends if you want to live past 60 odd?
What if OP is already odd? Wont make any change.
Depends if he wants to enjoy his last few months I suppose
A few years back when my relatives were searching for a property, their lender told them that they wouldn't approve a loan for a property within 50 metres of high voltage power lines. It had to do with lowering the desirability. I assume that the lender didn't want the risk. In simpler terms, say you pay 1M because you don't mind the tower. In a year or so you stop the payments, the lender takes possession of the property and at an auction they can't sell it for 1M because not many people are ok with the tower.
This is still the case with some lenders, and mortgage insurers won't touch it with a (electricity) pole.
Seems like a self fulfilling prophecy. Of course there will be less buyers if banks wont give loans. Nothing to do with electricity
Haha good point
The less you know the better. Melbourne has heaps of radioactive and toxic dump sites…..but not to worry, affordable homes for all!
Eh why risk it? Even if its harmless, you'll struggle to sell it later and it will be worth less than a similar property not near transmission lines
On health:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4931365/But, there would be too few real cases of people to accurately test. Consider how many millions of people smoked for decades before 'evidence' proved anything there. And even then, it wasn't a guarantee.
As noted earlier MOST people, including those who say it's fine, choose to live elsewhere.
If you buy such a property, because they are generally cheaper, do also be aware of the rights of access and the restrictions on land use.
Can anyone share the pros and cons of having a transmission tower close to a property?
depends, were you planning on having children?
eh, if its a TV/Radio Transmission Tower as suggested, then there's no issue. I've worked under one for 15 years and everyone has healthy kids.
Depends which tower in which city because many are getting decommissioned if its owned by the commercial networks.
No need to plug the old fluro into power as they light up due to RF.
Good tv/mobile reception - or for whatever the tower provides access for.
Used to live near channel 10 transmission tower - was great reception, but caused some crossover interference when trying to get channel 7 (this was back in the day before digital tv).
In terms of health/etc … Don't buy into the FB/scare stuff.
If talking about HV power supply distribution/transmission lines … As another reply alluded to what type/voltages ?
0.415kV - 66kV- 132kV - 275kV - 330kV - 500kV
(The last 1 prob only find near rural areas).I can remember when (early 2000's) - a new housing estate in my suburb got built close to 330kV power lines … And all these ppl complaining it was going to cause cancer to ppl that bought into that estate.
Meh.
OP still hasn't defined by what he means by "transmission TOWER" … If that were to happen, would settle some issues.
+++ While there has been some "cancer clusters" identified within hospitals (with workers) … Yet to read about any proper study about "cancer clusters" from ppl that live near HV power lines.
The estate I mentioned - built roughly 2002 … Very close to 330kV lines … 20+ years and still no actual signs/data of "cancer clusters" of ppl living within estate.
Make of that what you will.
Will be harder to sell down the track, however the price you pay now may make up for that?
For aesthetic reasons, no.
But Dad reckons powerlines are a reminder of man's ability to generate electricity
Every property has pros and cons. We bought a property on a flat block & were flooded out 2 years later. We immediately thought that we would be stuck with that property " forever" , but when we tried to sell, it was snapped up within 2 weeks, for double what we paid. Is it a reasonably desirable property apart from the power lines? Good luck
Can anyone share the pros and cons of having a transmission tower close to a property?
From experience next to a ~150kv towers:
Gentle buzz sound that increase with high humidity and/or rain, in particular a persistent drizzle. Not annoying, not an issue, but it is there.
As large transmission towers have lightning arrester wires your property will probably never ever be struck by lightning.
No issues other than visual and being physically there (plonked inside the farm land in our case).
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=transmission+towers+wind+collapse+…
I presume towers near residential areas have more stringent thresholds wrt risk/engineering.
The wind does howl/whistle in the cables at certain wind speeds, which can get on the nerves of some people.
Pro: a cheap house
Con: a cheap house… and long term you don't really save anything because it will be hard to sell & you will have to sell it cheap.
But you get the benefit of living in a suburb that you may not otherwise be able to afford.
If your budget is $800k and this house for $800k while the median for the suburb is $1m, do you live near the transmission line or move 10km out where the median is $800k?
Hard to sell? Anything sells at the right price.
So the house is 20% lower than the median today, in 10 years time, it will still likely be 20% lower, so you haven’t missed out any growth (as a %).
Will it achieve lower or higher capital growth than the cheaper median suburb 10 km out? Who knows? But while you live there you, the more expensive suburb will likely be a better suburb with more amenities and closer to the city.
I have seen those Transmission Tower on top of an apartment. Suck to be living in the penthouse directly underneath.
Fear over living near towers are old wife's tales passed down by generations with no valid science in it.
People have been living near them for decades. If there was any concern at all there would be regulations around building near them from fear of law suits.
Electromagnetic waves are used in wifi which we all have and live close to and have in our pockets near our reproductive organs on a daily basis.
Pros - Cheap house
Cons - Cancer, People trying to convince you it wont give you cancer even though it definitely will (just ask King Charles)Inbreeding will likely give you more health issues than living near a TT.
It is well known that there is a 5g tower on top of Buckingham palace
And it's been there since 1948.
For the right price, no problem. Will lower the value for sure due to aesthetics and tin foil hatters believing in magic but there are no actual health affects
I heard birds don't nest near transmission towers. Time to find out if that is really true
Pros, i don't think there is any. Or wait, price maybe but when you sell, it's the same for the buyers.
pros: almost no mobile connection
cons: your hair goes all frizzyFor some people those should be reversed.
Having lived ~15m (~15m from the closest edge of the house to the transmission line tower) from transmission lines, I can report that my mobile connection was fine.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/12+Boxwood+Pl,+Carseldine+…
Having a mother in law who lives the same distance her mobile coverage is shocking for data transmission.
Thats n=2 now, only need another million or so responses and we have statistically significance.
Hold on… the internet… computer says yes :-)
https://www.google.com/search?q=do+overhead+transmission+lin…
at this point, whether there is any true health adverse effects is almost irrelevant if you look at it from a property value perspective. there is enough doubt in a significant number of people's minds that the value will almost certainly be impacted in the future. unless you are looking in a particular pocket and priced out otherwise I wouldn't
That and they are ugly, unless your name is Darryl Kerrigan
Pro's???: None, unless you're talking about 5G towers.
Pros: cheaper property
Cons: might be slower selling when you go to sell and you might have to look at the transmission lines depending on the properties aspect.Don't buy it if the vendors aren't willing to be cheaper than comparable properties in the area.
i live about 60m from Vodafone 5G tower and gets about 400+mbps 5g speed with Vodafone 5G wireless broadband with unlimited bandwidth.
can you upgrade your speed by getting a covid booster?
Try the Uncle Fester Test: Shave your head and stick a light bulb in your gob.
What speeds are you getting on the 5G network?
If you have kids I would do very thorough research (did ozbargain comments link to any research ? I didn't read all the comments). Even then I would likely avoid.
If no kids and if it is a radio transmission tower then see above.
If no kids and an electrical transmission tower then no issue as I understand. HV transmission has been around a long time and I understand no link to health issues.I wouldn't buy a house near high voltage transmission, I get a weird feeling being near those towers.
Chuck McGill, is that you?
What type of tower? Is it just a repeater tower or full transmission? Do you know who owns it, so can look it up. Some are towers are pretty mundane, others you'll never see a bird land on.
not only are they ugly, transmission towers are almost always located in the least desirable location, ie next to freeways, along flood planes, open stormwater drains etc so it;s likely that the property has shit amenity too.
depending on your state, distributor etc there are limits to how close you can build near one too, I have had clients who bought big land under some and learnt later that other than it being a patch of grass their dreams of their giant mancave or shed to tinker on toys couldn't gain approval to be built.Big banks don't like to lend money if it's under 50 metres from the tower.
Another con.
You can't fly kites from the property, OP.
OP?
Has anyone heard from him?
I hear the serenity is incredible!