In this paper, we evaluate the forecasting ability of 145 indicators and ten types of forecast combination schemes to … facilitate substantial improvements of the forecasts, given the local nature of the real-estate markets. The forecast accuracy of … possible to detect when using full-sample estimation information. On average, the forecast improvements attain about 20 …

forecasters if forecasts are biased towards (away from) the consensus forecast. We found that anti-herding is prevalent among …