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Slimbieden was born out of our own experiences in the housing market. In today's overheated real estate market, you often have to quickly switch between different alternatives. After a brief viewing, you sometimes need to immediately decide whether to overbid by half a year's salary. It's absurd! If buying a house is one of the most important decisions in your life, you want to make it as well-considered as possible, right? The goal of Slimbieden is to help you make this decision as smartly as possible.

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That's why we, three friends with backgrounds in econometrics and accountancy, decided to investigate whether the amount bid on a house can be predicted from its characteristics and the economic conditions it is in. After some promising initial analyses, we moved on to a comprehensive econometric study in which we harmoniously optimized the dataset and the model. Our scientific integrity compels us to explicitly acknowledge our gratitude for the recent developments in the prediction literature (including Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Financial Econometrics) as well as the fundamental principles from which they are derived. Because we then established that our model leads to remarkably accurate predictions, we decided to offer it commercially. And thus, SlimBieden was born.