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The Economic Value of Neighborhoods: Predicting Real Estate Prices from the Urban Environment | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore

The Economic Value of Neighborhoods: Predicting Real Estate Prices from the Urban Environment


Abstract:

Housing costs have a significant impact on individuals, families, businesses, and governments. Recently, online companies such as Zillow have developed proprietary system...Show More

Abstract:

Housing costs have a significant impact on individuals, families, businesses, and governments. Recently, online companies such as Zillow have developed proprietary systems that provide automated estimates of housing prices without the immediate need of professional appraisers. Yet, our understanding of what drives the value of houses is very limited. In this paper, we use multiple sources of data to entangle the economic contribution of the neighborhood's characteristics such as walkability and security perception. We also develop and release a framework able to now-cast housing prices from Open data, without the need for historical transactions. Experiments involving 70,000 houses in 8 Italian cities highlight that the neighborhood's vitality and walkability seem to drive more than 20% of the housing value. Moreover, the use of this information improves the nowcast by 60%. Hence, the use of property's surroundings' characteristics can be an invaluable resource to appraise the economic and social value of houses after neighborhood changes and, potentially, anticipate gentrification.
Date of Conference: 01-03 October 2018
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 03 February 2019
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Conference Location: Turin, Italy

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