Registering Property

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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Region or EconomyProcedures (number)Duration (days)Cost (% of property value)
East Asia & Pacific5.099.04.1
Eastern Europe & Central Asia6.072.11.9
Latin America & Caribbean6.871.46.0
Middle East & North Africa6.437.45.9
OECD4.730.34.5
South Asia6.4106.05.9
Sub-Saharan Africa6.895.610.5
Afghanistan92507.0
Albania6423.4
Algeria14517.5
Angola733411.6
Antigua and Barbuda62610.9
Argentina5517.5
Armenia340.3
Australia554.9
Austria3324.5
Azerbaijan4110.3
Bahamas, the74812.5
Bahrain2310.9
Bangladesh824510.4
Belarus4210.0
Belgium713212.7
Belize8604.7
Benin412011.9
Bhutan5640.0
Bolivia7924.9
Bosnia and Herzegovina71285.2
Botswana4115.0
Brazil14422.7
Bruneino practiceno practiceno practice
Bulgaria8192.3
Burkina Faso613610.2
Burundi59410.7
Cambodia7564.4
Cameroon59317.8
Canada6171.8
Cape Verde6737.7
Central African Republic57518.6
Chad64422.7
Chile6311.3
China4293.2
Colombia9232.4
Comoros52420.8
Congo, Dem. Rep.8579.2
Congo, Rep.711616.5
Costa Rica6213.4
Côte d'Ivoire66213.9
Croatia51745.0
Czech Republic41233.0
Denmark6420.6
Djibouti74013.2
Dominica54213.7
Dominican Republic7603.8
Ecuador9162.2
Egypt7720.9
El Salvador5313.7
Equatorial Guinea6236.2
Eritrea121015.2
Estonia3510.4
Ethiopia13437.1
Fiji3682.0
Finland3144.0
France91136.3
Gabon86010.5
Gambia, the53714.6
Georgia230.0
Germany4405.2
Ghana5341.2
Greece11223.8
Grenada8777.4
Guatemala5301.1
Guinea610413.9
Guinea-Bissau92115.4
Guyana6344.5
Haiti54056.4
Honduras7235.6
Hong Kong, China5545.0
Hungary41711.0
Iceland342.4
India6457.5
Indonesia63910.7
Iran93610.6
Iraq586.5
Ireland5389.6
Israel71447.5
Italy8270.6
Jamaica55411.0
Japan6145.0
Jordan82210.0
Kazakhstan5400.1
Kenya8644.1
Kiribati55130.1
Korea7115.1
Kuwait8550.5
Kyrgyz Republic783.9
Lao PDR91354.1
Latvia7502.0
Lebanon8255.9
Lesotho61018.2
Liberia135014.7
Lithuania230.5
Luxembourg82910.3
Macedonia, FYR6663.4
Madagascar7747.5
Malawi6883.3
Malaysia51442.5
Maldivesno practiceno practiceno practice
Mali52920.3
Marshall Islandsno practiceno practiceno practice
Mauritania4495.2
Mauritius421010.8
Mexico5744.8
Micronesiano practiceno practiceno practice
Moldova6480.8
Mongolia5112.1
Montenegro8863.3
Morocco8474.9
Mozambique84212.9
Namibia9239.9
Nepal356.3
Netherlands256.1
New Zealand220.1
Nicaragua81243.5
Niger43511.1
Nigeria148221.9
Norway132.5
Oman2163.0
Pakistan6505.3
Palau5140.4
Panama7442.4
Papua New Guinea4725.1
Paraguay6463.5
Peru5333.3
Philippines8334.3
Poland61970.5
Portugal5427.4
Puerto Rico81941.5
Qatar10160.3
Romania8832.4
Russian Federation6520.2
Rwanda43150.6
Samoa51471.7
São Tomé and Principe76210.9
Saudi Arabia220.0
Senegal612420.6
Serbia61112.9
Seychelles4337.0
Sierra Leone78612.9
Singapore392.8
Slovakia3170.1
Slovenia63912.0
Solomon Islands102974.8
South Africa6248.8
Spain4187.2
Sri Lanka8835.1
St. Kitts and Nevis68113.3
St. Lucia6167.4
St. Vincent and the Grenadines73811.9
Sudan693.1
Suriname419313.9
Swaziland11467.1
Sweden123.0
Switzerland4160.4
Syria41928.0
Taiwan, China356.2
Tajikistan6371.8
Tanzania9734.4
Thailand221.1
Timor-Lesteno practiceno practiceno practice
Togo529513.4
Tonga410810.2
Trinidad and Tobago81627.0
Tunisia4396.1
Turkey663.0
Uganda132274.1
Ukraine10932.9
United Arab Emirates362.0
United Kingdom2214.1
United States4120.5
Uruguay8667.1
Uzbekistan12781.5
Vanuatu218811.0
Venezuela8472.2
Vietnam4571.2
West Bank and Gaza7630.9
Yemen6193.8
Zambia6396.6
Zimbabwe43025.0