Lifelong Property Price Prediction: A Case Study for the Toronto Real Estate Market

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05880v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 07:32:16 GMT
• Title: Lifelong Property Price Prediction: A Case Study for the Toronto Real Estate Market
• Authors: Hao Peng, Jianxin Li, Zheng Wang, Renyu Yang, Mingzhe Liu, Mingming Zhang, Philip S. Yu and Lifang He
• Abstract summary: We present Luce, the first life-long predictive model for automated property valuation. Luce addresses two critical issues of property valuation: the lack of recent sold prices and the sparsity of house data. We demonstrate the benefit of Luce by applying it to large, real-life datasets obtained from the Toronto real estate market.
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• Abstract: We present Luce, the first life-long predictive model for automated property valuation. Luce addresses two critical issues of property valuation: the lack of recent sold prices and the sparsity of house data. It is designed to operate on a limited volume of recent house transaction data. As a departure from prior work, Luce organizes the house data in a heterogeneous information network (HIN) where graph nodes are house entities and attributes that are important for house price valuation. We employ a Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) to extract the spatial information from the HIN for house-related data like geographical locations, and then use a Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) network to model the temporal dependencies for house transaction data over time. Unlike prior work, Luce can make effective use of the limited house transactions data in the past few months to update valuation information for all house entities within the HIN. By providing a complete and up-to-date house valuation dataset, Luce thus massively simplifies the downstream valuation task for the targeting properties. We demonstrate the benefit of Luce by applying it to large, real-life datasets obtained from the Toronto real estate market. Extensive experimental results show that Luce not only significantly outperforms prior property valuation methods but also often reaches and sometimes exceeds the valuation accuracy given by independent experts when using the actual realization price as the ground truth.

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