Can AI Predict the Next Area to Gentrify?

Re:Can AI Predict the Next Area to Gentrify? by someguydave on Sunday December 23, 2018 @01:08AM (#18744712)

Real estate is very expensive to transact. Certainly one could not execute short term trading strategies like is common with securities markets.

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Re:Can AI Predict the Next Area to Gentrify? by adrianN on Sunday December 23, 2018 @03:19AM (#18745044)

Don't you usually start a derivative market if the transaction costs of the original market are too high?

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Re:Can AI Predict the Next Area to Gentrify? by zwischenzug on Sunday December 23, 2018 @04:02AM (#18745165)

Derivative of what, though? There's no index to track that people will agree on or can't be gamed.

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Re:Can AI Predict the Next Area to Gentrify? by dagw on Sunday December 23, 2018 @06:43AM (#18745596)

In the US there's the Case-Schiller index which is the underlying for several classes of derivatives.

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Re:Can AI Predict the Next Area to Gentrify? by savvidis on Sunday December 23, 2018 @04:20AM (#18745224)

This is true for retail. However if a fund structures it the right way i.e. one property one company, the transaction costs could be similar like a share purchase deal.

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