hat factors are most relevant in helping to predict property prices

Scenario: Melbourne Property Prices

An important issue to many young Australians is housing affordability with recent
booms in property prices in Australia’s largest cities making it more difficult for
first-time homebuyers to enter the market. Sellers and buyers alike are interested in
what drives property prices, and buyers are generally interested in knowing where
bargains can be found.

We will consider data on more than 23,000 properties listed on
domain.com.au in the Melbourne metropolitan area between January 2016 and September 2017.

These data include key geographic information (e.g., suburb, address, distance from Melbourne CBD), property information (e.g., property type, number of rooms, land
and building area), and selling information (e.g., agent, sale method, price).

For this project, there are three primary questions to be investigated:

(a) Does property price increase the closer you get to the Melbourne CBD, and does the relationship between distance from the Melbourne CBD and property price change depending on the property type?

(b)What factors are most relevant in helping to predict property prices, and which
general region (REGION NAME) appears to be the best bargain for houses (i.e.
excluding other property types) based on what you would predict house prices
to be for that region?

(c)Are there certain (non-geographic) attributes of properties that characterize a
general region (REGION NAME)? In other words, is (non-geographic) information
on the property sufficient to allow a buyer to understand where a property is
likely to be located?

Expectation:
Methods and Analysis:
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Results:
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