The competition for global real estate capital is becoming increasingly selective, and transparency is a critical consideration for markets seeking to attract investment.
The UK’s position at the top of JLL’s Global Real Estate Transparency Index is therefore significant. The UK’s continued leadership reflects progress in areas including sustainability disclosure and corporate ownership transparency. It also provides an important foundation as investors assess increasingly complex markets and a broader range of investment opportunities.
Maintaining this position will require transparency to continue evolving alongside the investment landscape.
Capital is increasingly moving into new sectors, while issues such as power, infrastructure, technology and regulation are becoming more important to investment decisions.
Investors need to be able to assess not only established market fundamentals, but also the factors that are shaping the future performance and risk of real estate.
For the UK and wider European market, the opportunity is to ensure that transparency continues to provide investors with the information they need as those decisions become more complex.
That means keeping the quality, consistency and accessibility of market information aligned with how global investors are assessing opportunity and risk.
In that sense, transparency is not a static measure of market maturity, but something that needs to evolve with the market itself.
Matthew Richards, chief executive, JLL UK; and head of EMEA capital markets, JLL
