Invariably this is the first question a landowner will ask when approached to discuss an easement for an underground natural gas pipeline through their property. You could sit 10 different valuers in a room and each would come up with a different answer – so Maloney are attempting to find the definitive answer.
Throughout Maloney’s 35 years experience in land access throughout Australia, the company has encountered every excuse and reason as to why a pipeline easement will detract from the value of land.
With the benefit of the Maloney ATTLIS database, the company has been able to undertake a detailed analysis of each and every property which has sold along SEA Gas Pipeline route. The SEA Gas Pipeline is an ideal focus for the study as it traverses a wide variety of land uses, topography and demographics and also as it traverses some 600 different landowners affecting each property in a different way.
Maloney’s findings to date, together with the presentation of practical examples, will be presented at the 2005 APIA Conference in Adelaide.