The role of spatial and temporal structure for residential rent predictions

Roland Füss () and Jan A. Koller

International Journal of Forecasting, 2016, vol. 32, issue 4, 1352-1368

Abstract: This paper examines the predictive power of five linear hedonic pricing models for the residential market with varying levels of complexity in their spatial and temporal structures. Unlike similar studies, we extend the out-of-sample forecast evaluation to one-day-ahead predictions with a rolling estimation window, which is a reasonable setting for many practical applications. We show that the in-sample fit and cross-validation prediction accuracy improve significantly when we account for spatial heterogeneity. In particular, for one-day-ahead forecasts, the spatiotemporal autoregressive (STAR) model demonstrates its superiority over model specifications with alternating spatial and temporal heterogeneity and dependence structures. In addition, sub-market fixed effects, constructed on the basis of statistical TREE methods, improve the results of predefined local rental markets further.

Keywords: Classification and regression tree (CART) technique; Forecast evaluation; Hedonic pricing model; Rental prices; Spatiotemporal autoregressive (STAR) model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2016.06.001

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