A hybrid regression technique for house prices prediction

Usually, House price index represents the summarized price changes of residential housing. While for a single family house price prediction, it needs more accurate method based on location, house type, size, build year, local amenities, and some other factors which could affect house demand and supply. With limited dataset and data features, a practical and composite data pre-processing, creative feature engineering method is examined in this paper. The paper also proposes a hybrid Lasso and Gradient boosting regression model to predict individual house price. The proposed approach has recently been deployed as the key kernel for Kaggle Challenge “House Prices: Advanced Regression Techniques”. The performance is promising as our latest score was ranked top 1% out of all competition teams and individuals.