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The Off-Market Property Identifier helps real estate professionals, investors, and researchers find properties not currently listed on the market. By cross-referencing data from the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) with county assessor records, it identifies off-market properties, offering a valuable resource for uncovering potential opportunities.

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Identify On-Off Properties

The Off-Market Property Identifier helps real estate professionals, investors, and researchers find properties not currently listed on the market. By cross-referencing data from the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) with county assessor records, it identifies off-market properties, offering a valuable resource for uncovering potential opportunities.

Overview:

From assessor records, filtering invested properties and then breaking down those results down into flipped properties. Distinguishing between ON and Off markets deals of each filter is the last step.

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General Information

  • The scope of this project is to focus on threen key purposes:
    1. Finding out invested properties from the main dataset.
    2. Checking whether an invested properties was a flip one or not.
    3. From step two, Seperating Sold On Vs. Off Market properties by comparing properties ID to MLSers' or 1st American Listing's properties ID.
  • Main datset includes: ds_assessor_records.csv
  • MLS listings file includes: red_chicago_property_listings.csv, red_dallas_property_listings.csv, and red_denver_property_listings.csv.
  • First American file includes: ds_listings.csv.
  • The project is broken down into city as the request of Mr.Scott.

Technologies Used

  • Python 3.9.7
  • Pandas 1.3.4
  • Numpy 1.20.3
  • plotly 5.6.0

Usage

  • Four CSV files (private) are needed to run the Compare_MLSes_to_1stAmerican.ipynb are:
    • ds_assessor_records.csv
    • red_chicago_property_listings.csv
    • red_dallas_property_listings.csv
    • red_denver_property_listings.csv
    • ds_listings.csv
  • Note: Due to the large dataset size, only some useful columns were read to be used for this analysis.

Project Status

Project is: completed

Room for Improvement

  • What we think this project can be improve is to identify what are those negative values of Id columns from the 4 files, so we can decide to either filter them out or include them while comapring.
  • This project can also be done faster using SQL code on data warehouses.

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The Off-Market Property Identifier helps real estate professionals, investors, and researchers find properties not currently listed on the market. By cross-referencing data from the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) with county assessor records, it identifies off-market properties, offering a valuable resource for uncovering potential opportunities.

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