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Erschienen in: Machine Vision and Applications 4/2018

03.04.2018 | Original Paper

Vision-based real estate price estimation

verfasst von: Omid Poursaeed, Tomáš Matera, Serge Belongie

Erschienen in: Machine Vision and Applications | Ausgabe 4/2018

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Abstract

Since the advent of online real estate database companies like Zillow, Trulia and Redfin, the problem of automatic estimation of market values for houses has received considerable attention. Several real estate websites provide such estimates using a proprietary formula. Although these estimates are often close to the actual sale prices, in some cases they are highly inaccurate. One of the key factors that affects the value of a house is its interior and exterior appearance, which is not considered in calculating automatic value estimates. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of visual characteristics of a house on its market value. Using deep convolutional neural networks on a large dataset of photos of home interiors and exteriors, we develop a method for estimating the luxury level of real estate photos. We also develop a novel framework for automated value assessment using the above photos in addition to home characteristics including size, offered price and number of bedrooms. Finally, by applying our proposed method for price estimation to a new dataset of real estate photos and metadata, we show that it outperforms Zillow’s estimates.

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This value refers to the reported error rate at the time we started collecting data (June 2016). While the latest reported median error rate of Zestimate is 5.6% (https://​www.​zillow.​com/​zestimate/​#acc), the same approach as what we describe in the paper can be used to decrease the error rate.
 
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About the Redfin Estimate: www.​redfin.​com/​redfin-estimate.
 
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What is a Zestimate? Zillow’s Home Value Forecast (http://​www.​zillow.​com/​zestimate/​).
 
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About the Redfin Estimate: www.​redfin.​com/​redfin-estimate.
 
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While the Houzz dataset contains millions of images in each category, we download and use 20k images in each category.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Vision-based real estate price estimation
verfasst von
Omid Poursaeed
Tomáš Matera
Serge Belongie
Publikationsdatum
03.04.2018
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Machine Vision and Applications / Ausgabe 4/2018
Print ISSN: 0932-8092
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-1769
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-018-0922-2

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