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Exploring, modelling and predicting spatiotemporal variations in house prices

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Hedonic price modelling has long been a powerful tool to estimate house prices in the real estate market. Increasingly, traditional global hedonic price models that largely ignore spatial effects are being superseded by models that deal with spatial dependency and spatial heterogeneity. In addition, many novel methods integrating spatial economics, statistics and geographical information science (GIScience) have been developed recently to incorporate temporal effects into hedonic house price modelling. Here, a local spatial modelling technique, geographically weighted regression (GWR), which accounts for spatial heterogeneity in housing utility functions is applied to a 19-year set of house price data in London (1980–1998) in order to explore spatiotemporal variations in the determinants of house prices. Further, based on the local parameter estimates derived from GWR, a new method integrating GWR and time series (TS) forecasting techniques, GWR–TS, is proposed to predict future local parameters and thus future house prices. The results obtained from GWR demonstrate variations in local parameter estimates over both space and time. The forecasted future values of local estimates as well as house prices indicate that the proposed GWR–TS method is a useful addition to hedonic price modelling.

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  1. GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    A. Stewart Fotheringham

  2. Facultad de Ingeniería y Administración, Universidad Bernardo O’Higgins, Santiago, Chile

    Ricardo Crespo

  3. Urban Big Data Centre, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8RZ, UK

    Jing Yao

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Fotheringham, A.S., Crespo, R. & Yao, J. Exploring, modelling and predicting spatiotemporal variations in house prices. Ann Reg Sci 54, 417–436 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-015-0660-6

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