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Recommending property with short days-on-market for estate agency

A real estate appraisal approach by using transactions data and profile information

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Estates with short days-on-market (DOM), referring to the properties whose days on the active market are short, attract realtors to gain commission quickly in transactions. With the rise of the Internet, massive information of on-sale houses can be obtained online. It is a challenge for estate agencies to mine estates with short DOM from such massive information. In this paper, we proposed an estate with short DOM appraisal framework to automatically recommend those estates using transaction data and profile information crawled from websites. Motivated by the estimation process of domain experts, we first seek similar estates with the location, structure and market information of estates. Then, the listing prices of similar estates were used to calculate a price interval. To evaluate the proposed framework, we used two real-world datasets, which consist of 220,000 on-sale estates and 643 estates with manually evaluated values in Chongqing real estate market. The results show that the proposed framework can estimate accurately about 78% estates. Two agencies scored the list of recommendation, in which 88% estates are trustworthy. Compared to the classical hedonic model, our method can successfully deal with problems such as the negative effects of special estates and the lack of labels. Moreover, both the spatial and temporal characteristics of an estate are integrated into our framework. The effect of different parameter settings is also discussed.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Number 61472464); National Natural Science Foundation Project of CQ CSTC (Grant Number cstc2016jcyjA0276); the Fundamental research Funds for the Central universities (Grant Number 106112016CDJXY180006). We sincerely thank Prof. Chao Chen (Chongqing University) for the suggestions of our work. We also thank the editors and anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments to improve the quality of this manuscript.

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Mou, C., Zhou, Q., Ran, Y. et al. Recommending property with short days-on-market for estate agency. J Ambient Intell Human Comput 9, 2077–2092 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-017-0508-2

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