In progress.
In Norway, rental prices have risen significantly since COVID. As a landlord, I wanted to monitor these changes to set fair yet adequate rents for my rooms. To this end, I wrote a scraper to acquire data from online advertisements containing information on location, price, room size and whether electricity, hot water, internet and so on were included. This script was set up as a cron job on a linux server to run every month from 2022. Based on this data, a regression model could be set up to predict rental prices.
The analysis aimed to investigate: