Home is where the ad is: online interest proxies housing demand
Abstract Online activity leaves digital traces of human behavior. In this paper we investigate if online interest can be used as a proxy of housing demand, a key yet so far mostly unobserved feature of housing markets. We analyze data from an Italian website of housing sales advertisements (ads). Fo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2018-11-01
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| Series: | EPJ Data Science |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjds/s13688-018-0176-2 |