Assessing the Linkages Between Economic Competitiveness and Property Market Transparency

Author/s: Graeme Newell

Date Published: 1/01/2008

Published in: Volume 14 - 2008 Issue 3 (pages 322 - 333)

Abstract

The effective functioning of commercial property markets is influenced by a wide range of local and global factors. To explore these inter-relationships and linkages, 54 countries are assessed in terms of their property market transparency and their global competitiveness across a wide range of parameters, including economic, institutional, infrastructure, environmental and technology factors. This analysis is at a regional property market level and property market maturity level. Quantitative measures of these inter-relationships are assessed to provide insights regarding these linkages with the transparency of these global commercial property markets.

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Keywords

Correlation - Economic Competitiveness - Global Competitiveness - Linkages - Property Market Transparency - World Economic Forum

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