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Peer-Dependence Valuation Model for Real Estate Appraisal

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Data-Enabled Discovery and Applications

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Deep learning recently attracts considerable attention thanks to its powerful computational capacities in image processing and natural language processing. More and more real estate brokers provide online “Deep” expert systems to help clients with their inquiry of targeted properties before deciding on the transaction of properties. The real estate appraisal is one of the most significant concerns for the clients. In the appraisal process, the estimation of house price depends not only on its attributes but also their neighbors. The influence from neighbors is known as peer-dependence, which is not directly measurable. Thus, real estate appraisal can be improved if the valuation includes the peer-dependence measurement. In this paper, we propose a peer-dependence valuation model (PDVM), which is capable of converting the peer-dependence-based valuation problem into a sequence prediction problem. In the proposed model, we first develop a method, K-nearest similar house sampling (KNSHS), to generate sequences from the to-be-value house and nearby houses. Secondly, the bidirectional long short-term memory (B-LSTM) layers extract the features of sequences. Finally, the fully connected (FC) layer estimates the house price based on the features. The experimental results indicate that our model outperforms the other state-of-the-art machine learning models being used for real estate appraisal.

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Acknowledgements

The authors express their sincere gratitude to Kaiqi Zhang (AECOM), Fang Shi (University of British Columbia, Kelowna, Canada), and Dr. Huan Liu (China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China) for the helpful discussions when this work was being carried out.

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The study was supported by Mitacs Accelerate Program (Application Reference Number: IT08399).

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  1. Faculty of Applied Science, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC, V1V1V7, Canada

    Junchi Bin & Zheng Liu

  2. Data Nerds, Kelowna, BC, V1Y6J6, Canada

    Bryan Gardiner

  3. Faculty of Management, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC, V1V1V7, Canada

    Eric Li

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Bin, J., Gardiner, B., Li, E. et al. Peer-Dependence Valuation Model for Real Estate Appraisal. Data-Enabled Discov. Appl. 3, 2 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41688-018-0027-0

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