provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 178 countries and selected cities at the subnational and regional level.
This topic examines the steps, time, and cost involved in registering property, assuming a standardized case of an entrepreneur who wants to purchase land and a building that is already registered and free of title dispute.
The table below shows the main indicators, which include:
number of procedures legally required to register property,
time spent in completing the procedures, and
the costs, such as fees, transfer taxes, stamp duties, and any other payment to the property registry, notaries, public agencies or lawyers. The cost is expressed as a percentage of the property value, assuming a property value of 50 times income per capita.
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