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This research reports results from a competition on modeling spatial and temporal components of house prices. A large, well-documented database was prepared and made available to anyone wishing to join the competition. To prevent data snooping, out-of-sample observations were withheld; they were deposited with one individual who did not enter the competition, but had the responsibility of calculating out-of-sample statistics for results submitted by the others. The competition turned into a cooperative effort, resulting in enhancements to previous methods including: a localized version of Dubin’s kriging model, a kriging version of Clapp’s local regression model, and a local application of Case’s earlier work on dividing a geographic housing market into districts. The results indicate the importance of nearest neighbor transactions for out-of-sample predictions: spatial trend analysis and census tract variables do not perform nearly as well as neighboring residuals.
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Case, B., Clapp, J., Dubin, R. et al. Modeling Spatial and Temporal House Price Patterns: A Comparison of Four Models. The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 29, 167–191 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:REAL.0000035309.60607.53
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