By in #4, I talked about how to find the hidden APIs of Centaline Android App. In this article, I am going to show you how to write a scraper to scrape the data. You can find the Scrapy Crawler in this Git directory. 3 Levels of Data The scraping was done in 3 levels. First, …
Predicting House Price in Hong Kong #2
In part 1, we have talked about scraping transactional data of apartments. In part 2, let’s talk about splitting data into a training set and testing set. Why we need to split? The short answer is we want to prevent overfitting/memorizing and hope that the model trained can generalize into unknown cases. For example, if …
Property Deal: River Panorama, District 7, HCMC
Date: 15 April 2020 Recently, I received this property deal from an agent selling Vietnam property. Having experience with exaggerating and over-optimistic agents, I will not listen to anything they said except the name of the project and the price. I like filters because it is very efficient in narrowing down your options so that …
Be careful on exaggerated and false claims from agents
By One valuable lesson I learned in purchasing a property in Vietnam is to be careful of what the agents said. 9.9/10 times, their claims will be too optimistic or even false! Let look at the difference between the quoted price for Vietnam local people and the quoted price for us. Can you guess the difference? …
Property Deal: Roman Plaza, Hanoi, Vietnam
Facts on the Property Quoted price: HKD 850,000 (Approx. Dong 2,537,637,232) Floor Area: 69.4 sqm Build-up Area: 73.5 sqm Quoted Price Per Sqm (Floor area): HKD 12,248 (Approx. Dong 36,565,860) Location: Nam Từ Liêm, Hà Nội Unit Type: CH8 Handover Date: April 2020 2 Bedrooms 2 WCs Deal Breakers 1. Agency Fees/ Markup There are …