“…As compared to house price forecasting, research on rental price forecasting through machine learning (e.g. Clark and Lomax, 2018;Embaye et al, 2021;Hu et al, 2019;Li, 2018;Li and Li, 1996;Ma et al, 2018;Ma and Liu, 2019;Ming et al, 2020;Odubiyi et al, 2019;Oshodi et al, 2020Oshodi et al, , 2021Oyedeji Joseph et al, 2018;Oyedeji and Oyewale, 2018;Rafatirad, 2017;Tsai and Pan, 2014;Wang and Cao, 2019;Zhang et al, 2019) seems relatively scare. Hu et al (2019) explore the random forest, extra-trees, gradient-boosting, support vector, multi-layer perceptron neural network and k-nearest neighbor when building housing rent prediction models for Shenzhen in China in October 2017 and February 2018 and find that all of these algorithms, except for the support vector, generally present good performance with the random forest and extra-trees being the leaders.…”