Case Name :      Canning Consultants: The OPAC Assessment

Authors :           Gregory S. Zaric

Source :             Ivey Publishing

Case ID :            905E06

Discipline :        Information Technology

Case Length :    05 pages

Solution Sample availability : YES

Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)

A real estate appraiser has been hired to provide an alternate assessment on a set of office buildings in London, Ontario. Real estate assessments are often based on comparisons versus similar properties. However, because the set of comparison properties is small he cannot rely on standard quantitative techniques like linear regression. Instead he uses a technique called quality point in which the property valuation problem can be formulated as a quadratic program.