Spatial Prediction of Apartment Rent using Regression-Based and Machine Learning-Based Approaches with a Large Dataset

Takahiro Yoshida (), Daisuke Murakami () and Hajime Seya ()
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Takahiro Yoshida: The University of Tokyo
Daisuke Murakami: Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Hajime Seya: Kobe University

The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 2024, vol. 69, issue 1, No 1, 28 pages

Abstract: Abstract Employing a large dataset (at most, the order of n = 106), this study attempts enhance the literature on the comparison between regression and machine learning-based rent price prediction models by adding new empirical evidence and considering the spatial dependence of the observations. The regression-based approach incorporates the nearest neighbor Gaussian processes (NNGP) model, enabling the application of kriging to large datasets. In contrast, the machine learning-based approach utilizes typical models: extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), random forest (RF), and deep neural network (DNN). The out-of-sample prediction accuracy of these models was compared using Japanese apartment rent data, with a varying order of sample sizes (i.e., n = 104, 105, 106). The results showed that, as the sample size increased, XGBoost and RF outperformed NNGP with higher out-of-sample prediction accuracy. XGBoost achieved the highest prediction accuracy for all sample sizes and error measures in both logarithmic and real scales and for all price bands if the distribution of rents is similar in training and test data. A comparison of several methods to account for the spatial dependence in RF showed that simply adding spatial coordinates to the explanatory variables may be sufficient.

Keywords: Apartment Rent Price Prediction; Large Data; Nearest Neighbor Gaussian Processes (NNGP); Deep Neural Network (DNN); Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost); Random Forest (RF) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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