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Nov 12SHIPPEDTransparency rankings for 30 islands and 30 cities: every tracked off-plan project scored 0 to 100 on what is published and checkable (legal name, permit, handover date and its record, deposit protection, location, website, official lists), with the method and weights public, a source on every line, a right of reply on every row and the full analysis by email on request; Sumba is ranked with a disclosure, and the founder's own project there is excludedNov 12DATA27 more projects added in 11 countries of the Americas and Asia-Pacific, filling markets the previous batch left empty: the Dominican Republic, Panama, Mexico, Belize, the Bahamas, Vietnam, Indonesia and Fiji, plus Texas, New York, California, Colombia and Sri Lanka (1,294 tracked in total): 13 have a handover date as the developer publishes it and 9 have a map pin from the developer's own map, page data or address; every fact has a source link and none is reviewed or scored yetNov 12SHIPPEDError sweep after the 11 November release: market pages no longer jump while they load (layout shift 1.5 to 0), the sealed X-ray page holds its place too, stale totals removed from the French and Russian home pages and the database page in 8 languages, one airport route that ran on an airfield service road taken out of the distance check, the Berlin short-let rule linked to the official page that is online, 26 broken links on translated pages repaired (payment email check, market pages, booking), the verify page now says its file list is weekly, singular forms in the bulk check, and the deploy guard's browser set-up repairedNov 12DATA33 more projects added in 11 countries across the Americas and Asia-Pacific, from Canada, the USA, Brazil and Colombia to Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand (1,267 tracked in total): 25 have a handover date as the developer publishes it and 12 have a map pin from the developer's own map or address; every fact has a source link and none is reviewed or scored yetNov 12DATA60 more projects added in 17 countries across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, from France, Germany and Spain to the UAE, Oman, Egypt, Kenya and South Africa (1,234 tracked in total): 43 have a handover date as the developer publishes it and 25 have a map pin from the developer's own map or address; every fact has a source link and none is reviewed or scored yetNov 11SHIPPEDDeveloper pages now list official gazette notices about the developer's company when it is identified by its exact legal name: Spain's BORME (every daily issue of the last 12 months), France's BODACC (by SIREN number) and The Gazette in the UK, with notice type, date and link; no names of people are copiedNov 11SHIPPEDAround the site: project pages with a reliable pin now show the nearest sea, beach, airport, runway end, hospital, school, supermarket and transport stop from OpenStreetMap, and the yearly PM2.5 and NO2 of the Copernicus atmosphere modelNov 11SHIPPEDDistance claims check: distances and travel times stated on the project page we track are quoted from our sealed copy next to the straight-line and road distance measured from the pinNov 11SHIPPEDClimate at the plot: hot days, warm nights, yearly rain and heavy-rain days for 1995 to 2014 against 2040 to 2059, with the range across climate models (World Bank CMIP6 data)Nov 11SHIPPED39 developer pages of listed companies now show the exchange, the ticker and a link to the official filings, with the latest annual report date for those filing with the US SEC. No share prices, no adviceNov 11SHIPPEDStricter script rules on every page: a script runs only when our own page loaded it, so injected code is blocked by the browser; tested first on 271 pages, every tool, the portal and the adminNov 11DATA50 more projects added in 21 countries, from the UAE, Spain and the UK to Australia, Malaysia and Greece (1,174 tracked in total): each has its developer page, the handover date as published or "not published", and a source link for every fact; none is reviewed or scored yetNov 11SHIPPEDCan you legally short-let there? Project pages and a new guide show licence or registration, caps and zones, night limits and building rules for 23 places, each linked to the official source and its dateNov 11SHIPPEDDeveloper pages now compare the company name with official regulator warning lists of unauthorised firms (FCA, AMF, MAS, SFC, FINMA, Central Bank of Ireland, SEC) and show a no-match result with each list's date; possible matches go to a private review and are never publishedNov 11SHIPPEDAccessibility pass on 271 pages with an automated checker: charts and status strips are announced correctly, sideways-scrolling boxes work from the keyboard, small links are easier to tap; Russian pages use the right word form after numbers; project links open the project page directlyNov 11SHIPPEDProject pages now say where the developer's own schedule puts the project today, and the promised dates download as a calendar file (.ics) or a subscription that updates when a date moves; the portal exports your payment schedule the same way
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Kolaboro / Developers / Right of reply

Answer any finding, free

Each project has its own page with its name and sourced facts only. If you build one of them, you can answer what we found with documents: prove the project's domain is yours with one DNS record, attach your licence, permit or land title, and write your reply. A person reviews it, and only then is it published next to the finding. Developers never pay us, and paying is not possible.

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1Prove the project's domain is yours

No email loop and no account: add one TXT record to the DNS of the domain the project is sold on, or one meta tag to that domain's homepage. Only someone who controls that domain can do either. The code is random and made in your browser, so it does not say which Kolaboro project it is for. When the domain is the official domain shown on the project's Kolaboro page, your published reply carries the badge "Verified: controls <domain>".

2Attach your documents

Licence, building permit, land title, escrow letter, progress report. Your files do not leave your computer. Your browser computes each file's SHA-256 fingerprint and only that, with the size and type, is sent. When we ask for the file (or you add a link to it), the moderator checks it matches the fingerprint byte for byte, and the published reply lists the fingerprints so anyone holding the document can check it is the same one.

Drop files here or choose files (PDF, images; up to 12)

    3Write your reply

    What is public, and when

    Before a reply is approved

    Nothing. The TXT record or meta tag holds a random code, not a project id. Your reply, name, email, domain and fingerprints are visible only to the Kolaboro moderator.

    After a moderator approves it

    Your reply text, the date, the document types and their SHA-256 fingerprints, next to the finding. Your company name only if you ticked the box; the domain if you ticked the box or if it is the project's official domain (it is already shown on the project's page), with the badge "Verified: controls <domain>". Your name and email are never published.

    What the moderator checks

    The TXT record or meta tag is still there (checked live again), the domain really is the domain of that project as shown on its Kolaboro page, and each document matches its fingerprint and the issuing register where one exists.

    What we cannot do

    We cannot verify a document we have not seen: a fingerprint proves which file you mean, not that it is genuine. A confirmed document raises the verification level; an unconfirmed one is published as your statement.

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    No access to the DNS? Send an unverified note instead

    This goes to our inbox, is not published automatically, and we will ask you to prove you speak for the developer before anything changes.

    What happens next

    1. A moderator re-checks the DNS record and confirms the domain belongs to that project.
    2. We check each document against the issuing register or an independent source.
    3. Within 10 working days we update the project: a confirmed document raises its verification level; your reply is published next to the finding either way.

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