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Data-Driven Green Value Assessment of Urban Real Estate: A Multimodal Intelligent Valuation Framework Integrating Image, Text, and Spatial Information

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  • Wen Fu

    (Faculty of Data Science, City University of Macau, Macau 999078, China
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Lei Zhang

    (Faculty of Data Science, City University of Macau, Macau 999078, China
    College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

Abstract

Traditional approaches to urban real estate green value assessment rely heavily on single structured data sources. Such methods often provide limited interpretability and fail to capture multidimensional green attributes accurately. To address these limitations, this study constructs a multimodal assessment framework that integrates image, text, and spatial information. A housing price prediction model is developed based on a Multi-Layer Perceptron architecture. Results show that the proposed method is superior to traditional models (such as the Hedonic pricing model, Ridge regression, and eXtreme Gradient Boosting, as well as single-modality control models). The core evaluation metric, mean squared error, reaches 0.0505 ± 0.0021. SHapley Additive exPlanations analysis shows that the text modality provides the largest contribution to model prediction, accounting for 51.45% of the global contribution. However, this dominance reflects the model’s dependence on textual green signals rather than the establishment of causal relationships. The result may also be influenced by marketing language bias and symbolic sustainability signals. The image modality contributes 38.48%, while the spatial modality contributes 10.07%, indicating a complementary relationship among the three modalities. Green premium analysis confirms that the model achieves higher prediction accuracy for high-priced residences and effectively captures differences in green premium across housing price tiers. This study provides a new technical pathway for real estate green value assessment.

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  • Wen Fu & Lei Zhang, 2026. "Data-Driven Green Value Assessment of Urban Real Estate: A Multimodal Intelligent Valuation Framework Integrating Image, Text, and Spatial Information," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 18(13), pages 1-24, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:18:y:2026:i:13:p:6497-:d:1975963
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