Housing in Affluent vs. Deprived Areas: An Analysis of Online Housing Advertisements in Dublin

Arjumand Younus, M. Atif Qureshi, Michael O’Mahony

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Abstract

The e-commerce boom has shifted the real estate market to an online medium whereby realtors and owners can post their property listings. A recent focus of the research community has been studying various aspects of these online property portals. We perform a textual analytics study for a popular Irish portal with Dublin being our case-study on account of its severe housing crisis and heterogeneous regions. We extract various textual features from within the property advertisements and analyse their correlations with the deprivation index of the location in which the property is located thereby attempting to understand how affluence of a location influences the way in which advertisements are framed, and thereby aiding the user towards the interpretation of property advertisements. The correlation analysis reveals interesting outcomes depicting tendency of realtors/owners to over emphasize location aspects of a property for affluent locations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSocial Informatics - 11th International Conference, SocInfo 2019, Proceedings
EditorsIngmar Weber, Kareem M. Darwish, Claudia Wagner, Claudia Wagner, Fabian Flöck, Emilio Zagheni, Samin Aref, Laura Nelson
PublisherSpringer
Pages95-108
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783030349707
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event11th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2019 - Doha, Qatar
Duration: 18 Nov 201921 Nov 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11864 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2019
Country/TerritoryQatar
CityDoha
Period18/11/1921/11/19

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