Real estate announcements monitoring dataset for Latvia 2018

The dataset represents a collection of real estate announcements published in 2018 in the Latvian leading advertisement website www.ss.com [1]. In the Latvian case, mentioned advertisement website is alternative information source in contrast with several (5–7) large real estate agencies. The mentioned advertisement website has no important competitors in Latvia, closer competitor reklama. lv [2] is 4–5 times smaller. Advertisement website www.ss.com represents information from small and medium size agencies, as well from individuals, who want to take part in the real estate market. The collected dataset reflects the observation dynamics of 12 months during 2018, including in total 238 thousand observations. Dataset has 24 dimensions, such as in announcement mentioned price for real estate, deal types, dimensions of location of real estate, such as region, district, address; characteristics of real estate, such as real estate type (land, flat and so on), size and main characteristics for each real estate type, such as land area or bad rooms in apartments. The dataset is hosted in Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) repository [3].