Every market. Every source.
Market Intelligence knows the market: country-specific regulation, taxation, planning, transaction processes, financing, registries, macro data and local market conventions, for investment firms, lenders, developers and advisors. Coverage is listed country by country, down to the named dataset.
Source note 1, 207 countries covered
- Period
- As of September 2026
- Method
- Every country Smart Bricks covers, one row each in the Market Intelligence catalogue
- Source
- Smart Bricks, company-reported
Coverage is listed country by country, down to the named dataset.
Source note 2, 10,000+ data sources
- Period
- As of September 2026
- Method
- Every source the platform pulls from: proprietary, licensed and public
- Source
- Smart Bricks, company-reported
This is the platform’s total across every kind of data. Each country card counts that market’s own sources.
Source note 3, $294.2T property stock indexed
- Period
- GDP 2024, nominal; stock at current market values
- Method
- GDP-multiplier ratios calibrated to established stock-valuation methodologies, summed across the catalogue’s countries
- Source
- IMF World Economic Outlook, April 2025; World Bank
Estimated country by country from each country’s GDP, then summed.
Source note 4, 19 asset classes
- Method
- The asset classes named in the catalogue’s fullest market list, counted
- Source
- The catalogue itself, which lists each market’s asset classes
Smaller markets list fewer of them, and each country card names its own.
Real-estate stock is estimated using GDP-multiplier ratios calibrated to established stock-valuation methodologies, covering residential, commercial, and developable land at current market values. GDP: 2024 nominal (IMF WEO Apr 2025 / World Bank).
All 207 countries, ranked by property stock indexed.
THE SOURCES
Built on named sources.
Registries and recorded transactions, statistics bodies, listing feeds, valuation and mortgage series, geospatial and macro layers. Each one lands as a named feed, so a number on a screen can be walked back to the record it came from.
What the engine reads.
A sample of the roster, from deed transfers to flood maps.
What Market Intelligence knows, country by country.
It makes the rest of Smart Bricks jurisdiction-aware: the local rules, conventions, market context and research capability needed to interpret the deal correctly.
- Company Brain
- How does this institution invest?
- Real Estate Intelligence
- How do you analyse this type of real estate?
- Market Intelligence
- How does investing in this asset work in this jurisdiction?
- Company BrainFund IV · GCC hospitality allowed · min 18% levered IRR · max 60% LTV · 5-year holdUnchanged
- Real Estate IntelligenceHotel: ADR, occupancy, RevPAR, GOP margin, F&B, FF&E reserve, operator agreement, competitive setUnchanged
- Market IntelligenceOwnership structure, transaction costs, hotel and tourism regulation, planning and use, local financing conventions, tourism statistics, local transaction evidenceSwapped
- The opportunityAsking price · seller’s forecast · historical P&L · management agreement · evidence and conflictsUnchanged
Change the market and the hotel analysis does not change. Only Market Intelligence is swapped. That is how the system is global without a separate product per market.
Below the country
The hierarchy goes country, region or state, city, submarket. Tax, zoning, rent regulation and property law vary enormously below national level.
- New York State
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Dubai
- DIFC
- Business Bay
Inside Market Intelligence, for every country
10 specialist capabilities, not one giant agent. Every country carries the same ten.
- 01Legal and OwnershipHow real estate can be owned and transacted locallyFreehold vs leasehold, foreign ownership restrictions, title structures, SPV ownership, strata and commonhold concepts, transfer requirements, registration, local authority requirements. It does not provide legal advice. It identifies relevant rules, evidence and issues requiring counsel.
- 02Tax and Transaction CostThe local economics of buying, holding and sellingTransfer taxes and registration fees, VAT and GST, stamp duties, property taxes, withholding, capital gains treatment, municipal charges, acquisition and disposal costs. Versioned and effective-date aware: a deal underwritten in 2029 should not accidentally use a 2026 tax rule.
- 03Planning and ZoningWhat can actually be built or changed herePermitted use, zoning, development rights, density, height, plot and FAR constraints, planning history, outstanding applications, change-of-use potential, nearby development pipeline. Terminology changes by country; the job is consistent.
- 04Lease and TenancyLeases do not mean the same thing globallyLease structure, rent reviews, indexation, service charges, tenant protections, renewal and break rights, deposits, recoverability, eviction and termination, landlord obligations. The Lease Abstraction Agent reads the document; Market Intelligence tells it what those provisions mean in that jurisdiction.
- 05Market ConventionsHow investment professionals actually talk and calculate locallySq ft vs sqm, cap rate vs yield, gross vs net rent, quoted vs effective rent, measurement standards, valuation methodology, local yield conventions, service-charge treatment. Small details, but critical to avoiding confidently wrong analysis.
- 06Regulatory and ComplianceWhat you are allowed to do, and what you must proveLicensing, KYC and AML, foreign investment restrictions, beneficial ownership, regulated asset types, environmental obligations, building regulations, energy-performance rules, sanctions considerations. Surfaces issues and evidence rather than replacing lawyers.
- 07Local Market ResearchWhere to look for trustworthy evidence in this countryEach country has its own ecosystem: for the UK the relevant government, statistical and property-market sources plus whichever commercial sources the client has access to; for the UAE a completely different ecosystem. Market Intelligence holds a source map and a retrieval strategy; the data itself may live elsewhere.
- 08Macro and DemographicsWhat the numbers imply, not just what they areInterest rates, inflation, GDP, employment, population, migration, household formation, tourism, construction activity, financing environment. It does not just report the inflation rate; it helps the specialist agents reason about what that implies for rents, index-linked leases, operating costs, financing and exit.
- 09Financing and Capital MarketsHow the debt actually works hereBenchmark and reference rates, typical leverage, amortisation, loan structures, the lender universe, hedging conventions, financing fees, debt taxes and registration, the refinancing environment. Feeds the deterministic debt model rather than calculating returns itself.
- 10Local RiskThe jurisdiction-specific challenge functionAsks what an international investor could misunderstand about this market: political and regulatory change, currency exposure, repatriation, title risk, liquidity, planning, taxation, environmental risk, insurance, market transparency, unusual transaction structures.
Not a database of every property in a country. The knowledge, rules, sources, tools and evaluations Smart Bricks needs to reason correctly about real-estate investment in that jurisdiction.
Each country holds
- Knowledge
- Rules
- Sources
- Tools
- Models and skills
- Evaluations
Every country is evaluated on
- Lease interpretation
- Transaction costs
- Market conventions
- Source selection
- Underwriting inputs
The rules change at every border, and so does the model.