Why is Transparency Important?

Rising levels of transparency are associated with an increase in foreign direct investment – this is a powerful incentive to encourage free-flowing information and apply local law fairly and consistently.

Jones Lang LaSalle’s Real Estate Transparency Index charts the steady progress of real estate transparency in 81 markets across the globe. It highlights the important differences you experience when transacting, owning and operating in foreign markets. It also provides governments and industry organisations with a point of reference to measure and improve transparency within their own markets.

This interactive results page enables you to:

• explore the different components of real estate transparency
• compare transparency in markets over time
• examine both global and local statistics
• discover the top-ranking markets in each of the transparency categories
• identify the fastest moving markets over the past two years
• read about new markets in North Africa and the Levant (Tunisia, Lebanon and Jordan)
• see how the breadth and depth of data available on commercial real estate debt, and the  strength of debt monitoring, plays out in a country’s transparency score

To read the report’s key findings, please click on the corresponding button in the right hand column. A description of the methodology used to create this index is set out in the technical note.

For more information on this index and to get help with your real estate decisions, please contact one of the Global Real Estate Transparency Team members.