Home is where the ad is: online interest proxies housing demand

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). For each ad...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pangallo, M, Loberto, M
Format: Journal article
Published: EDP Sciences 2018