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Data Science Blog > Big Data > Real Estate Investment: Buy to Sell or Buy to Rent?

Real Estate Investment: Buy to Sell or Buy to Rent?

Mohammad Haseeb Durrani
Posted on May 1, 2017

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Real Estate Investment

If you are looking for an investment to generate supplemental income, then real estate is a good option to consider. Just like any other form of investment, your decisions need to be guided by your end goal. Buying to sell or "flipping" will require a different mindset than buying to rent for passive income. The latter will require an investigation into the rent to value percentage. My Shiny App provides an exploratory data analysis tool to help facilitate that kind of research.

The Data

For this project I chose Zillow Research as my data source. Zillow has a treasure trove of data on median rent and value available in CSV format for public use. This Zestimate data is available on State, Metro, County, City, Zip-code, and Neighborhood levels, for Single Family Homes, as well as Coops and Condos. I picked Single Family Homes, at the zip-code level as it is a standard geographical unit. Now you might be wondering what a Zestimate is. A Zestimate is Zillow's estimated rent or value of a particular home. Zillow calculates this number using their proprietary statistical and machine learning models.

I used two datasets for my project, one with median rent and one with median value data. I merged the two data-sets to narrow down to the zip-codes for which both rental and value data were available. I also limited the time series to a five year period from January of 2012 to December of 2016 to eliminate missing values.

Exploration and Visualization

Once scrubbed clean, the data were ready for R's powerful visualization tools. I used the Plotly package in my Shiny App to visualize the three variables of interest Value, Rent, and the Percentage of Rent to Value (Rent/Value). The sidebar of the dashboard can be used to make a selection of State, County, or City. Using the zip-codes of my home county of Queens as an example, we can visualize the change in either variable over time.

Link to my Shiny App: https://haseebsaccount.shinyapps.io/MHD_Proj1_Shiny/


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The Date Range slider can be moved around to adjust the time period of interest, and clicking "All" will show the change over time for all zip-codes of the selected area. Similarly, a bar-graph visualization shows the exact percentage increase in the average median rent and value over the same period of time.


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Jumping out of the graph is Brooklyn (Kings County) with a drastic increase of 42% in rent and 72% in value. Someone looking to "flip" or sell their investment for a profit might want to take a deeper look at Brooklyn. The "Map" tab might be useful for a more detailed analysis.


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For this tab, I have used leaflet to display a side by side comparison between either two variables, or the same variable over time. The zip-codes of Northern Brooklyn bordering Queens have seen a positive change over the past five years. Switching gears to rental investment, we can next compare median rent to median value side by side. We see that areas of high value do not necessarily show a proportionately higher rent.


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Sheepshead Bay (โˆš) seems to fare well with a median rent of $2360 in properties with a much lower median value of $778,000. For a rental investment, it seems to make sense to consider Sheepshead Bay as compared to a much more expensive area like Boerum Hall (ร—) with a median rent of about $500 more ($2830) and a median value four times greater ($3.1 million). Looking at this one might conclude that Sheepshead Bay delivers more bang for the buck.


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Shifting our focus back to Queens, we can see which areas are favorable in terms of value (left), rent (right), and rent to value percentage (center) as a balance between the two. For property purchasers who seek rental income, it might be a good idea to keep the rent to value percentage in mind while deciding on an investment. Areas of high rent and low value yield the highest rent to value percentage. However, neighborhoods of lower value might not always be ideal for investment due to other factors beyond this data that also need to be taken into consideration.


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Future Directions

More data would definitely be helpful to get a better understanding. Additional data on median income, taxes, schools, and crime would be beneficial to performing some predictive analysis. Also data over a larger time span would paint a broader picture of these trends.

About Author

Mohammad Haseeb Durrani

Mohammad Haseeb Durrani is a highly motivated and insightful Data Scientist with a Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. With an extensive background in biomedical research including pre-clinical vaccine development, and...
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