...Xiaojie Xu; Yun Zhang Purpose The Chinese housing market has gone through rapid growth during the past decade, and house price forecasting has evolved to be a significant issue that draws enormous attention from investors, policy makers and researchers. This study investigates neural networks...

...Manya Mainza Mooya Purpose The paper addresses the puzzling phenomenon of the ubiquity of economic forecasting, of which property market forecasting is but one instance, on the one hand, and the unreliability of such forecasts, on the other hand. The paper explains why property market forecasts...

... employed. Although some cross‐sectional studies have used statistics of forecasting accuracy such as the root mean square error (RMSE) (Fletcher et al., 2000a), this is not the norm. However, we would argue that consideration of out‐of‐estimation statistics is important, even if the aim...

... distributed office network means that current methodologies used to model future demand using variables, such as rental charges and building costs, might prove to be inappropriate given probable future trends. Proposes that alternative data sets will have to be considered and modelled if forecasts...

...John M. Hutcheson Aims to report the results of research into the techniques of forecasting long‐term building industry prospects. Outlines the actual results of research into the Australian building industry and contrasts the results and factors stressed by a number of forecasters. Develops...