Research
On-device research index

arXiv research

A locally-built, LLM-digested index of recent arXiv papers in quant finance, geometry/topology, and statistical ML — keyword search served straight from SQLite on this machine.

168,657 papers · 148 categories

Trend · papers per month

2468 · Jun 201919922001200920172026
48 results for Housing Consultation

HabitatAgent offers a multi-agent system for transparent housing consultation.

problem Opaque reasoning and brittle multi-constraint handling in housing recommendation systems.
method HabitatAgent is a multi-agent architecture with specialized roles for memory, retrieval, generation, and validation.
result HabitatAgent achieves 95% accuracy in real user consultation scenarios, significantly outperforming a strong baseline.

A study ranks critical Lean Six Sigma tools for implementation in Portuguese companies.

problem Identifying the most important tools for successful Lean Six Sigma implementation in Portugal.
method An online survey with Portuguese consultants evaluated 37 tools based on frequency of use, difficulty, importance, and impact. A ranking was developed using a procedure to assess consultants' know-how.
result Honshin Kanri, VOC, VSM were identified as the most important tools for Lean Six Sigma implementation.

This paper explores integration and contagion among US metropolitan housing markets. The analysis applies Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) house price repeat sales indexes from 384 metropolitan areas to estimate a multi-factor model of U.S. housing market integration. It then identifies statistical jumps in metrop…

2011-10-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Modeling house prices in Australia reveals supply limitations as the primary driver of extreme trends.

problem Understanding the resilience of Australia's housing prices despite changes in mortgage rates.
method Developed a differential equation model and used modern extreme value techniques on real-world data.
result Without supply increases, a 11% mortgage rate hike is needed to moderate extreme housing costs.

This paper investigates the risk-return relationship in determination of housing asset pricing. In so doing, the paper evaluates behavioral hypotheses advanced by Case and Shiller (1988, 2002, 2009) in studies of boom and post-boom housing markets. The paper specifies and tests a multi-factor housing asset pricing mode…

2011-03-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Singapore's cooling measures did not increase housing wealth overall.

problem The impact of cooling measures on housing wealth distribution.
method Examined Singapore's cooling measures over ten rounds, analyzing welfare from housing wealth.
result Welfare from housing wealth in the last round might not be higher than before 2009, depending on the deflator.

The latest global financial tsunami and its follow-up global economic recession has uncovered the crucial impact of housing markets on financial and economic systems. The Chinese stock market experienced a markedly fall during the global financial tsunami and China's economy has also slowed down by about 2\%-3\% when m…

2015-03-18abs ↗pdf ↗

The study models mortgage prepayment risk using stochastic housing market activity.

problem Modeling prepayment risk in mortgages under varying housing market conditions.
method Developed a stochastic model for prepayment option value, using swaption pricing formulas and non-standard actuarial hedging.
result Housing market covariance significantly impacts prepayment option prices.

Housing markets play a crucial role in economies and the collapse of a real-estate bubble usually destabilizes the financial system and causes economic recessions. We investigate the systemic risk and spatiotemporal dynamics of the US housing market (1975-2011) at the state level based on the Random Matrix Theory (RMT)…

2013-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Spatially weighted conformal prediction improves uncertainty quantification in house price models.

problem Uncertainty quantification in automated valuation models with spatial dependencies.
method Survey and demonstration of various spatially weighted approaches to adjust conformal prediction confidence sets.
result Spatially weighted CP makes confidence sets more consistently calibrated across geographical regions.

In this paper, we use the house price data ranging from January 2004 to October 2016 to predict the average house price of November and December in 2016 for each district in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. We apply Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average model to generate the baseline while LSTM networks to…

2017-09-25abs ↗pdf ↗

The Canonical Regression Quantile method predicts CEO compensation and future performance.

problem Determining fair CEO compensation and its impact on company performance.
method Canonical Regression Quantile method to assess CEO pay and performance.
result The method can predict future CEO performance and distinguish over/underpaid CEOs.

Study shows how macroprudential policies affect credit growth in Israel, especially in housing and business sectors.

problem Impact of macroprudential policies on credit growth in Israel.
method Bank-level panel data analysis for Israel, 2004-2019; interaction of monetary and macroprudential policies.
result Accommodative monetary policy interacts with macroprudential policies to increase total credit growth.

Study shows how algorithmic prediction affects US housing market, reducing racial wealth disparities.

problem Impact of algorithmic prediction on housing market and racial wealth disparities.
method Natural experiment using digitization of housing records to study entry, allocation, and prices.
result Digitization leads to increased sale prices for minority-owned homes, reducing racial wealth disparities.

Study on Spanish households' investment choices in housing, deposits, and stocks.

problem Investment decisions of Spanish households in housing, deposits, and stocks.
method Theoretical model considering indivisible and illiquid housing assets, financial constraints, and actual choices compared.
result Households underinvest in stocks and deposits compared to optimal choices, but mortgage investments are efficient.

Study shows house buyers in Christchurch value earthquake risk differently based on time since 2011 quake.

problem Understanding how house buyers' perception of earthquake risk changes over time.
method Used a hedonic price model to analyze house prices in Christchurch over three periods.
result Buyers value earthquake risk differently based on the time since the 2011 Christchurch earthquake.

Spatial ABM predicts housing market trends in Sydney.

problem Inadequate spatial modeling in housing market forecasts.
method Graph-based spatial agent-based model incorporating social and economic factors.
result Model accurately predicts market trends and local area-specific forecasts.

The real estate market is exposed to many fluctuations in prices because of existing correlations with many variables, some of which cannot be controlled or might even be unknown. Housing prices can increase rapidly (or in some cases, also drop very fast), yet the numerous listings available online where houses are sol…

2018-09-13abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper uses graph learning to detect valid instruments in high-dimensional data for house pricing.

problem Endogeneity bias and invalid instrument validation in high-dimensional data.
method Merge variable selection algorithms and probabilistic graphs to estimate house prices and causal structure.
result Efficient data-driven instrument selection and invalid instrument purge in high-dimensional data.

Modern excavations yielded a distribution of the house areas in the ancient Egyptian city Akhetaten, which was populated for a short period during the 14th century BC. Assuming that the house area is a measure of the wealth of its inhabitants allows us to make a comparison of the wealth distributions in ancient and mod…

2004-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified theory explains housing cycle across metros, showing credit expansion impacts.

problem Puzzling correlations between income and mortgage growth across ZIP codes and metros.
method Unified credit expansion theory, double differences, instrumental variables.
result Credit expansion drives housing cycle, affecting boom, bust, and recovery phases.

The paper explores coalescent contractions in contractible spaces, providing criteria and examples.

problem Existence and absence of coalescent contractions in contractible spaces.
method Analysis of contractible finite simplicial complexes and criteria for coalescent contractions.
result Criteria for contractible finite simplicial complexes that ensure no coalescent contractions.

The three-state agent-based 2D model of financial markets as proposed by Giulia Iori has been extended by introducing increasing trust in the correctly predicting agents, a more realistic consultation procedure as well as a formal validation mechanism. This paper shows that such a model correctly reproduces the three f…

2013-10-02abs ↗pdf ↗

In this article, we develop a model for the evolution of real estate prices. A wide range of inputs, including stochastic interest rates and changing demands for the asset, are considered. Maximizing their expected utility, home owners make optimal sale decisions given these changing market conditions. Using these opti…

2009-07-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Model explains herding and volatility in urban housing prices.

problem Understanding non-linear price dynamics in urban housing markets.
method Agent-based model with rational households and trend-following behavior.
result Model accurately predicts price variability and herding behavior.

The paper introduces mortgage-rate-adjusted home prices to help buyers and adjust housing indices.

problem Impact of mortgage rates on home prices and property purchase decisions.
method Derives mortgage-rate-adjusted 'effective price' and constructs a price-mortgage rate neutrality line.
result Mortgage rates significantly affect home prices over long periods but not during the pandemic.

The 2006 sudden and immense downturn in U.S. House Prices sparked the 2007 global financial crisis and revived the interest about forecasting such imminent threats for economic stability. In this paper we propose a novel hybrid forecasting methodology that combines the Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) from …

2017-07-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows houses appreciated more during pandemic due to speculation, not just price uncertainty.

problem Impact of COVID-19 on house prices and speculation.
method Quasi-experimental design, unit-level matching, multivariate difference-in-difference regression.
result Properties listed for sale appreciated an additional 1% per month after pandemic onset, with an excess annual growth of 12.7 percentage points.

Credit expansion led to stronger household leverage cycles during the U.S. business cycle.

problem Understanding the role of credit supply in the U.S. business cycle.
method Causal evidence from 1999-2010 U.S. business cycle data.
result Credit expansion, particularly in private-label mortgages, caused stronger household leverage cycles.

Machine learning models predict housing prices using macroeconomic factors.

problem Predicting housing prices using macroeconomic data.
method Used machine learning (kNN and tree-bagging) on a dataset of macroeconomic factors.
result Machine learning models can predict housing prices with uncertainties better than existing index uncertainties.