Sunday 22 January 2012

Our crude buy-to-let barometer rises ... as fools rush in - This is Money

Our crude buy-to-let barometer rises ... as fools rush in - This is Money

We've long dabbled in the economics of online search and the patterns it throws up.
This kind of 'nowcasting' - using live data from the web that reflect real-time trends - gained wider popularity in 2010 and 2011.
Our first stab at this was an exceptionally crude house price predictor which, a little tongue-in-cheek in a post in June 2007, predicted that a crash lay ahead. A few months later, the market tanked [interestingly, many of you predicted a crash back then .....

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