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Changing the Location Game – Improving Location Analytics with the Help of Explainable AI

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  • Moritz Stang
  • Bastian Krämer
  • Marcelo Del Cajias
  • Wolfgang Schäfers

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Besides its structural and economic characteristics, the location of a property is probably one of the most important determinants of its underlying value. In contrast to property valuations, there are hardly any approaches to date that evaluate the quality of a real estate location in an automated manner. The reasons are the complexity, the number of interactions and the non-linearities underlying the quality specifications of a certain location. These are difficult to represent by traditional econometric models. The aim of this paper is thus to present a newly developed data-driven approach for the assessments of real estate locations. By combining a state-of-the-art machine learning algorithm and the local post-hoc model agnostic method of Shapley Additive Explanations, the newly developed SHAP location score is able to account for empirical complexities, especially for non-linearities and higher order interactions. The SHAP location score represents an intuitive and flexible approach based on econometric modeling techniques and the basic assumptions of hedonic pricing theory. The approach can be applied post-hoc to any common machine learning method and can be flexibly adapted to the respective needs. This constitutes a significant extension of traditional urban models and offers many advantages for a wide range of real estate players.

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  • Moritz Stang & Bastian Krämer & Marcelo Del Cajias & Wolfgang Schäfers, 2023. "Changing the Location Game – Improving Location Analytics with the Help of Explainable AI," ERES eres2023_139, European Real Estate Society (ERES).
  • Handle: RePEc:arz:wpaper:eres2023_139
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    Keywords

    Automated Location Valuation Model; Explainable AI; Location Analytics; Machine Learning;
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    • R3 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location

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