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| Author(s): |
Nair Cristina Margarido Brondino
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 1999-12-21 |
| Examining board members: |
Antonio Nelson Rodrigues da Silva;
Glauco Tulio Pessa Fabbri;
Ana Cristina de Almeida Fernandes;
Emilio Haddad;
Eiji Kawamoto
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| Advisor: | Antonio Nelson Rodrigues da Silva |
| Abstract | |
A common problem in the use of land valuation models is the identification of the real estate features that should be incorporated in the models and how they influence the final property price. In addition, a well structured approach based in consistent mathematical models is also required. Based on the aforementioned assertions, the following objectives have been drawn for this work: after identifying the main variables that have a strong influence on land values, the use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) for land valuation have be tested and the influence of an accessibility measure on urban land values have been studied. Regarding the variables that should been part of the valuation models, we reached the conclusion that a mixed database containing physical and spatial attributes seemed to be an interesting option for this sort of problem. Therefore, after the addition of a spatial variable, the distance to the city center, to our database, two valuation methods have been compared: the ANN approach and a multiple regression model, the latter quite common in practice. Two case studies have been then analyzed: the cities of Araçariguama and São Carlos. The first one is a small bedroom town (around 6,000 inhabitants) not far from the state capital, the city of São Paulo. The second one is a medium-sized city (around 160,000 inhabitants) located in the middle of the state and a technological and industrial center. The particularities of these two cities made possible a comparison of the influence that such a variable as accessibility could have on the land values under two different conditions. The results obtained for the city of Araçariguama indicated that the accessibility measure used, the distance from the city center, was one of the main variables influencing land prices. Although both models gave good estimates, their results were not exactly the same. While the influence of the variable distance to the city center could not be individually taken in the multiple regression model, because of its interaction with the variable area, the same variable has a strong weight on the ANN model, in which it appears as responsible for over 34% of the land value. The ANN performed better in a direct comparison of the two approaches, specially when looking to the total relative error. With the purpose of analyzing the spatial distribution of the estimation errors, they have been grouped into clusters, which have stressed that the worst cases are concentrated in a specific area of the city. Both methods showed that the distance to the city center has a strong influence on land values also in the city of São Carlos. The highest estimation errors were also concentrated in a specific neighborhood for two out of three data sets in both valuation methods. Another interesting outcome is the fact that the relative weight of the accessibility variable used was higher in Araçariguama than in São Carlos, although the former city is smaller than the latter. (AU) | |