Real-Estate

Understanding the determinants of mortgage loan approvals

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Term: 

2003

Students: 

Chris Baden, Nima Baradar, Dawn Bui, Curtis Hardrick, Subramanian Hariharan

University: 

UMD

Presentation: 

PDF icon XYZ Mortgage.pdf

A large U.S. mortgage company processes loan applications from borrowers, such that underwriting is done with software & rules determined by the company. The project goal is to help the company improve their decision making process regarding loan approval

Forecasting Application Rates for LEED Certification

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Project Details

Term: 

2009

Students: 

Dean DiPietro, David Kuhla, Anuja Rathi, JayVirgil, Paige Washington

University: 

UMD

Presentation: 

PDF icon Application Rate for LEED Certification Presenation.pdf

Report: 

PDF icon Application Rate for LEED Certification REPORT.pdf

The goal of this project is to forecast application rates for LEED certification using Registration and Application data provided by Green Building Certification Institute.

Predicting ZILLOW.com’s Zestimate accuracy

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Project Details

Term: 

2009

Students: 

Sirisha Kilambi, Pramod Mane, Beena Nair, Mehul Shah, Tabrez Shaikh

University: 

UMD

Presentation: 

PDF icon Zestimate_Presentation.pdf

Report: 

PDF icon Zestimate Report.pdf

Zillow.com is the real estate service launched in 2006. It calculates a Zestimate-home valuation as a starting point for anyone to see -for free- for most homes in the U.S. Zillow indicates that for MD and VA they get only about 26% of predictions within the +/-5% range only.

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