diff --git a/cd4ml/problems/houses/ml_pipelines/default.json b/cd4ml/problems/houses/ml_pipelines/default.json
index 12ac076..f9cc99c 100644
--- a/cd4ml/problems/houses/ml_pipelines/default.json
+++ b/cd4ml/problems/houses/ml_pipelines/default.json
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     "target_field": "price",
     "feature_set_name": "default",
     "acceptance_metric": "r2_score",
-    "acceptance_threshold_min": 0.42,
+    "acceptance_threshold_min": 0.50,
     "acceptance_threshold_max": 1.0,
     "max_rows_to_read": null,
     "splitting": {