Shipping daily
Nov 13DATA100 more projects added in 15 countries of the Americas and Asia-Pacific: the USA (Miami, Austin), Thailand, Indonesia (Bali), Vietnam, Malaysia, Brazil (Balneário Camboriú), the Philippines, Cambodia, Japan, Australia, Canada, Uruguay, Paraguay, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic (1,595 tracked in total): 97 have a delivery or completion date as published, every fact links to the page it came from, and none is reviewed or scored yetNov 13SHIPPEDProject pages now show what changed since the last check, the total cost of buying with each country's taxes and fees and their sources, the official permit register of the market, alternatives in the same place with a similar price and a higher transparency score, website domain age and the place's delay index; developer pages compare promised and actual handover dates; new pages in 8 languages list projects by handover year and place, by neighbourhood, and 500 side-by-side comparisonsNov 13DATA101 more projects added in 18 countries of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (1,495 tracked in total): UAE 28 (DAMAC and Binghatti), France 27, Poland 12, Zanzibar 9, Spain 5, Malta 4, two each in Portugal, Cyprus, Albania and Saudi Arabia, and one each in Italy, Greece, Croatia, Morocco, Egypt, Oman, Montenegro and Kenya. 75 have a handover date as published and 45 a map pin; every fact has a source link and none is reviewed or scored yet. They appear in the transparency rankings of their place automaticallyNov 13SHIPPEDSearch and answer engines: Kolaboro in numbers (/numbers/, 8 languages) with citable figures, each with its source and date; llms.txt in every language and one per country with every named project and its quick answer; 93 more indexable pages and the share images of our pages in the sitemaps; a daily check of structured data, broken links and redirects; AI crawler visits per day on /engineering/; translated header and footer on not-found pages; and place pages that group the projects with little published so farNov 13SHIPPEDNew public pages: /progress/ with daily counters (projects, markets, countries, sources, sitemap URLs, deploys) and a chart of projects added per day since the start; the 300 improvements we are working on, with their status; press figures for each island and city we rank; our moderation policy; and a team and method page with its review dateNov 13SHIPPEDEasier to use: every project page ends with a clear next step (compare with similar projects, save to My projects, alert me if the date or price changes, ask the developer, share by WhatsApp or link); /projects/ can be filtered by country, place, handover year, permit and transparency score and sorted; compare two or three named projects side by side; the phone menu starts with search; /status/ checks 20 key pages every 5 minutes and after every deployNov 12SHIPPEDTranslation sweep in 8 languages: handover dates written in words ("October 2027", "Q1 2027", "mid-2028", "1er semestre 2027") and country names now appear in the page language on project pages, developer pages, rankings and answers, with the original wording quoted once; this bar and the dataset descriptions follow the page language too, and long project names now fit in search titlesNov 12SHIPPEDBroken links fixed: market pages now link straight to each project page instead of through a redirect, old project file addresses (/p/<id>/ followed by any text, and /<language>/p/<id>/) go to the project's page in the same language, a few old paths go to the page that replaced them, junk addresses answer 410 Gone, and the page-not-found page now has a project search and links to projects, transparency rankings and tools in 8 languagesNov 12DATA50 more projects added in 12 countries of the Americas and Asia-Pacific: Malaysia, Japan, the USA, the Philippines, Australia, Vietnam, Canada, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Colombia (1,394 tracked in total): 32 have a handover or completion date as the developer publishes it, 14 (in Malaysia) carry the developer licence and advertising permit numbers the developer prints on its permits page, and 20 have a map pin from the developer's own map data or address; every fact has a source link and none is reviewed or scored yetNov 12DATA50 more projects added in 15 countries of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (1,344 tracked in total): France 14, Poland 9, UAE 8, Turkey 4, Northern Cyprus 3, Georgia 2, Mauritius 2, and one each in Greece, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Kenya, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. 40 have a handover date as the developer publishes it and 30 have a map pin from the developer's own page; every fact has a source link and none is reviewed or scored yet. They appear in the transparency rankings of their place automaticallyNov 12SHIPPEDEvery named project page now opens with a quick answer (developer, place, handover date as published, permit published or not, transparency score and rank, last checked) and answers by question: when it will be completed, how much it costs, who the developer is, what we could check and where it is, with sources, plus six related projects.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 yet
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Kolaboro / Progress / 300 improvements

300 improvements, with their status

We picked these 300 out of about 1,000 ideas. Each one shows its status, and the list is updated as work ships.

48 done, 2 in progress, 242 next, 8 planned

Updated 13 November 2026

How we picked them

  1. It brings visits from search engines or answer engines.
  2. It only uses facts with a source.
  3. It is free to run and needs no paid model calls.
  4. It applies to every project at once.
  5. It helps a buyer move on without getting stuck: search, compare, save, ask.

Project pages and content (1‑30)

  1. 1DoneA dated "what changed since our last check" block on every project page: price, handover date, website
  2. 2DonePages by handover year and place, such as "projects completing in 2027 in Dubai"
  3. 3DoneNeighbourhood pages in the big cities (Dubai Marina, JVC, Canggu, Bang Tao and more)
  4. 4DoneDeveloper pages with "promised date versus actual date" for their delivered projects
  5. 5DoneTotal cost of buying on the project page: taxes, notary and fees of the country, with the law linked
  6. 6DoneA direct link to the official licence or permit register on each project page where one exists
  7. 7DoneAutomatic "X vs Y" comparisons for projects in the same place and year, built only from data
  8. 8DoneAn "alternatives to this project" section: same place, similar published price, more transparent
  9. 9NextA glossary per country (oqood, escrow, IMB, PBG, nota simple) linked from the project pages
  10. 10NextA step-by-step guide "how to check a developer in this country", with official links
  11. 11NextPages by type per place: villas, apartments, branded residences
  12. 12NextPages by published price range, such as "under 300,000 USD in Bali"
  13. 13NextPages listing projects with a published permit in each place
  14. 14NextPages listing projects whose handover date moved, per place, with the history
  15. 15NextA monthly delay study with figures journalists can cite
  16. 16NextCompleted projects kept online and marked "delivered" instead of removed
  17. 17NextA summary of the rules for foreign buyers on each project page: freehold, leasehold, limits
  18. 18NextLinks to the country and place pages from every paragraph about rules
  19. 19NextLocal place names in the text (Kuta Utara, Bang Tao and Cherngtalay)
  20. 20Next"Checked on" dates shown next to every fact, not only at the end
  21. 21NextA dated table of the unit types and sizes the developer publishes
  22. 22NextA printable "questions to ask before you sign" page per country
  23. 23NextExact quotes of rental return promises next to what the law requires
  24. 24NextDeposit protection rules per country on the project page
  25. 25NextCurrency risk depending on the buyer's home country
  26. 26NextPayment schedule compared with construction progress
  27. 27NextSeasonal content per place: monsoon, hurricanes, heat
  28. 28NextAirport pages: projects within 30 minutes of each airport
  29. 29Next"Near" pages for beaches and international schools, with measured distances
  30. 30NextA monthly review of the weakest page texts by template, using search data

Indexing and technical SEO (31‑60)

  1. 31DoneFewer pages reported as "alternate with canonical" or "noindex": review which ones should be indexed
  2. 32DoneProject pages with little data listed on their place page until we hold more
  3. 33DoneAn image sitemap with the satellite views and the share images
  4. 34DoneA daily automatic test of structured data on a sample of project pages
  5. 35DoneA daily crawl of our own site for broken internal links and redirects, with a public result
  6. 36DoneThe header and footer of the "page not found" page translated
  7. 37DoneInternal links from the home page and the hubs to the least linked project pages
  8. 38NextCrawlable pagination links on every list
  9. 39Nexthreflang in the sitemaps as well as in the HTML
  10. 40NextIndexNow on every data change, not only on publish
  11. 41NextA weekly check of how search engines see each template without JavaScript
  12. 42NextRemove URL parameters that create duplicates
  13. 43NextSitemaps split by type with a real last-modified date
  14. 44NextCheck that no indexable page needs JavaScript for its main text
  15. 45NextReview pages "crawled, not indexed" template by template
  16. 46NextReview pages "discovered, not indexed", starting with the ones people search for
  17. 47NextHeadings written for each language, not literal translations from English
  18. 48NextTranslated alternative text on images
  19. 49NextPlace and GeoCoordinates structured data on every project page with a pin
  20. 50NextConsistent Organization and sameAs data across the site
  21. 51NextVisible breadcrumbs that match the structured data
  22. 52NextNo repeated titles across languages and places
  23. 53NextA visible date on every ranking page
  24. 54NextRobots rules that let through only what is useful and block endpoints
  25. 55PlannedSearch data per project page from Search Console
  26. 56PlannedBing Webmaster Tools on the same property
  27. 57PlannedYandex and Baidu webmaster tools for Russian and Chinese
  28. 58NextA weekly report of clicks by template on the engineering pages
  29. 59NextA weekly check of real Core Web Vitals
  30. 60NextAn internal linking plan by cluster: country, place, developer, project

Visibility in answer engines (61‑90)

  1. 61Donellms.txt per language and per country, with every project
  2. 62DoneOne answer file per project with the quick answer, dates and sources
  3. 63DoneA "Kolaboro in numbers" page with dated figures that anyone can cite
  4. 64DoneVisits by AI crawlers per day, measured and shown on the engineering pages
  5. 65NextA monthly review of what answer engines say about 50 projects
  6. 66NextA downloadable dataset per project
  7. 67NextRanking data as CSV with an open licence
  8. 68NextA "how to cite Kolaboro" page
  9. 69NextA one-line fact with date and source at the start of each section
  10. 70NextMore MCP server tools: compare two projects, list by handover year
  11. 71NextOpenAPI examples that always work
  12. 72NextMarkdown answers for place and developer pages
  13. 73NextA JSON feed of changes per project
  14. 74NextA method page with a version number and a date
  15. 75NextShort answers to "is it safe to buy off-plan in this country?" with official sources
  16. 76NextProject names in other scripts (Arabic, Chinese, Russian) when the developer publishes them
  17. 77NextA consistent Wikidata entry for Kolaboro
  18. 78NextDataset structured data on every ranking
  19. 79NextA data freshness notice in every API answer
  20. 80NextSource links in every MCP answer
  21. 81NextAn answer template for "developer reviews" on developer pages
  22. 82NextFrequently asked questions per country in markdown
  23. 83NextA page of known errors and corrections
  24. 84NextA public log of data changes per project
  25. 85NextAnswer files in all 8 languages
  26. 86NextCheck that AI crawlers see the same page as search engines
  27. 87NextA one-page summary per place that is easy to cite
  28. 88NextA clear licence for reusing the data
  29. 89NextA corrections contact visible on every page
  30. 90NextExample questions for the MCP server in the documentation

New data nobody else gives (91‑130)

  1. 91DonePrice history per project from every time we read it, with a simple chart
  2. 92DoneChanges on the developer's website summarised by fixed rules: "removed the date", "price up 8 %"
  3. 93DoneAge of the developer's domain and the company's registration date when public
  4. 94DoneA delay index per place: average months a handover date moved
  5. 95DoneHow many projects each developer has active at the same time
  6. 96NextConstruction progress as a percentage estimated from satellite images, with the method published
  7. 97NextOfficial building permits where an open register exists (Dubai, Florida, Spain)
  8. 98NextRecorded deeds and sale prices nearby, in more countries
  9. 99NextFuture supply per place: units under construction compared with population
  10. 100NextOfficial tourist occupancy per place
  11. 101NextTourist arrivals per airport from official data
  12. 102NextLong-term rents nearby from licensed portals or official data
  13. 103NextAn estimated real gross yield with sources and method
  14. 104NextAir quality and noise near the plot
  15. 105NextPower and water cuts by area where public data exists
  16. 106NextPlanned infrastructure nearby (metro, roads, airports) from official sources
  17. 107NextOfficial zoning of the plot where the map is public
  18. 108NextCoastal erosion and beach retreat
  19. 109NextReal driving distance measured on open road data
  20. 110NextInternet speed by area from open data
  21. 111NextHospitals and their real distance
  22. 112NextInternational schools nearby
  23. 113NextAircraft noise
  24. 114NextExtreme temperatures by month
  25. 115NextElectricity and water prices per country
  26. 116NextAnnual property tax per country
  27. 117NextPublished service charges
  28. 118NextVisa rules linked to buying property (golden visas), with the law linked
  29. 119NextBanks that lend to foreign buyers, per country
  30. 120NextLegal handover deadlines and penalties per country
  31. 121NextPublic court cases of the developer
  32. 122NextRegulator notices per country, from more lists
  33. 123NextThe developer's ads on social networks: how many and since when, with no personal data
  34. 124NextThe architect and the builder, as published
  35. 125NextThe guarantee fund or bank, as published
  36. 126NextAwards the developer claims, checked against the organiser's list
  37. 127NextGreen certifications (LEED, EDGE) checked in the official register
  38. 128NextDated street photos with an open licence
  39. 129NextPublished floor plans archived with a date
  40. 130NextPrice per square metre compared with the average of the place

More projects and coverage (131‑150)

  1. 131Done200 new real projects, each with its source
  2. 132DoneProjects people already search for, added first
  3. 133DoneThe most searched developers covered with all their active projects
  4. 134In progressNew markets with demand: Albania, Bulgaria, Uruguay, Paraguay, Maldives, Seychelles, Zanzibar
  5. 135NextA quarterly review of completed and vanished projects
  6. 136NextNew projects detected on official portals every week
  7. 137NextA "this project is missing" form, reviewed before anything is added
  8. 138NextThe top 10 developers of each place covered
  9. 139NextStreet-level pins for 80 % of projects
  10. 140NextA published handover date for 80 % of projects
  11. 141NextPermit numbers for every market that has a register
  12. 142NextA dated published price for 60 % of projects
  13. 143NextMore US cities (Miami, Austin, Nashville)
  14. 144NextMore of Latin America (Medellín, Punta Cana, Tulum)
  15. 145NextMore of Asia (Da Nang, Siargao, Langkawi)
  16. 146NextMore of Eastern Europe (Batumi, Budva, Durrës)
  17. 147NextMore of Africa (Diani, Zanzibar, Kigali)
  18. 148NextMore of the Middle East (Ras Al Khaimah, Muscat, NEOM)
  19. 149NextCaribbean islands with citizenship by investment
  20. 150NextAn internal coverage dashboard per place

User experience and flow (151‑190)

  1. 151DoneSearch with suggestions as you type (project, developer, place) on every page
  2. 152DoneCompare 2 or 3 projects side by side
  3. 153Done"My projects" saved in your browser, no account needed
  4. 154DoneFilters on the project list: country, place, handover year, permit published, score
  5. 155DoneSort by transparency, handover date or last check
  6. 156DoneA clear next step at the end of each project page: compare, save, alert me, ask
  7. 157DoneA simpler mobile menu with search at the top
  8. 158DoneA sticky section index on long project pages
  9. 159DoneA share button (WhatsApp, copy link) on every project page
  10. 160NextA map of every project with filters
  11. 161NextList view and map view on every place page
  12. 162NextA "recently viewed" history
  13. 163NextPrint or save a clean project page as PDF
  14. 164NextDark mode across the whole site
  15. 165NextA comfortable text size on phones
  16. 166NextUseful empty states in every section
  17. 167NextClear error messages in forms
  18. 168NextAccessibility level AA on every template
  19. 169NextFull keyboard navigation
  20. 170NextA language switcher that keeps you on the same page
  21. 171NextA currency switcher
  22. 172NextMetric and imperial units
  23. 173NextAn explanation of the score on hover
  24. 174NextA home page adapted to the visitor's country
  25. 175NextA first-visit guide: "what should I check first?"
  26. 176NextAn interactive checklist before signing
  27. 177NextA total cost calculator from the project page
  28. 178NextA yield calculator with real data for the place
  29. 179NextPublic questions per project
  30. 180NextA visible "Did you buy here? Tell us"
  31. 181NextThe developer's right of reply made more visible
  32. 182NextPages that load without layout jumps on every template
  33. 183NextLinks back to the list that keep your filters
  34. 184NextVisible breadcrumbs on phones
  35. 185NextA "back to top" button on long project pages
  36. 186NextProject cards with the key fact (handover, permit, score)
  37. 187Next"Updated X days ago" labels
  38. 188NextA help page built from users' questions
  39. 189NextA one-question survey after 60 seconds, with no personal data
  40. 190NextTests with 5 real users per language

Speed and reliability (191‑215)

  1. 191DoneAn uptime check of 20 key pages every 5 minutes, public on the status page
  2. 192DoneRetry and cached fallback for outside sources that fail (street photos, exchange rates)
  3. 193In progressAn automatic bundle check and smoke test on every deploy
  4. 194NextPre-rendering of the 500 most visited project pages
  5. 195NextAVIF images with responsive sizes
  6. 196NextSystem fonts or a font subset
  7. 197NextCritical CSS inline on every template
  8. 198NextJavaScript only where it is needed
  9. 199NextEdge caching that refreshes when the data changes
  10. 200NextA weight budget per template, with an alert
  11. 201NextA daily Lighthouse run on 10 pages, published
  12. 202NextAlerts for JavaScript errors seen by real users
  13. 203NextAutomatic visual tests per template
  14. 204NextA daily data backup with a restore test
  15. 205NextOne-click rollback
  16. 206NextRate limits on the public API
  17. 207NextSecurity headers reviewed every month
  18. 208PlannedDNSSEC switched on
  19. 209NextA published security policy (security.txt)
  20. 210NextA load test before every launch
  21. 211NextAn incident page with cause and fix
  22. 212NextPublished API response times
  23. 213NextA daily check for broken outside links
  24. 214NextA daily check of the certificates
  25. 215NextA dated technical change log

Alerts and return visits (216‑240)

  1. 216Done"Alert me if the date or price of this project changes" on every project page
  2. 217DoneA public follower count per project, the number only
  3. 218NextA weekly summary per place
  4. 219NextWeb push notifications
  5. 220PlannedAlerts sent by email for real
  6. 221NextA free PDF report in exchange for an email address
  7. 222NextA magic link to see "my projects" on several devices
  8. 223NextA request for a review some time after saving a project
  9. 224NextA monthly newsletter with the delay index
  10. 225NextRSS per place and per developer
  11. 226NextA calendar file (.ics) per place
  12. 227NextAn alert when a new project appears in a place
  13. 228NextAn alert when a developer appears on an official list
  14. 229NextLanguage preferences for alerts
  15. 230NextOne-click unsubscribe
  16. 231NextDouble opt-in for email addresses
  17. 232NextA clear privacy page for alerts
  18. 233NextConversion measured per template
  19. 234NextA/B tests of form wording, without tricks
  20. 235NextA form for agencies that want the embeddable card
  21. 236NextA more visible "send us what is missing" page for developers
  22. 237NextA dashboard for developers with their score
  23. 238NextA transparency badge
  24. 239NextPaid full reports
  25. 240NextA referral programme for agencies

Trust, authority and links (241‑270)

  1. 241DoneA press page per place with figures anyone can cite
  2. 242DoneA public moderation policy
  3. 243DoneA team and method page with a review date
  4. 244NextA study of projects whose handover date moved 3 times or more
  5. 245PlannedA monthly press release
  6. 246PlannedPartnerships with local lawyers
  7. 247PlannedPresence in expat forums
  8. 248NextUnlinked mentions followed up
  9. 249NextAn outside expert review of the method
  10. 250NextOfficial sources linked in every country
  11. 251NextDated public corrections
  12. 252NextA published conflict of interest policy
  13. 253NextFunding and business model explained
  14. 254NextA real contact with a stated response time
  15. 255NextPress mentions linked
  16. 256NextOpen data for journalists
  17. 257NextWidgets for blogs, with a link
  18. 258NextA "used by" page once users agree to be listed
  19. 259NextGuest guides by lawyers, signed with their name
  20. 260NextA public answer to every developer complaint
  21. 261NextA published accessibility audit
  22. 262NextA published security audit
  23. 263NextAn awards and mentions page (real ones only)
  24. 264NextProfiles in open data directories
  25. 265NextA public repository of the method
  26. 266NextPublic tests of the score
  27. 267NextA monthly webinar with data
  28. 268NextPodcasts and interviews
  29. 269NextWork with universities
  30. 270NextAmbassadors per country

Progress you can see every day (271‑300)

  1. 271DoneA changelog entry for 13 November with everything published
  2. 272DoneA line in the progress bar for every change published
  3. 273DoneA progress page with daily counters: projects, markets, sources, sitemap pages, deploys
  4. 274DoneA chart of projects added per day since the start
  5. 275DoneThis public list of 300 improvements with their status
  6. 276NextAn automatic weekly summary in the changelog
  7. 277NextPublic usage figures (visits, searches), with no personal data
  8. 278NextTime from request to deploy, published
  9. 279NextNumber of deploys per day
  10. 280NextBugs found and fixed per week
  11. 281NextData coverage per place in a chart
  12. 282NextShare of project pages indexed over time
  13. 283NextTransparency ranking history
  14. 284NextA public roadmap with dates
  15. 285NextA "how we work" page with the daily process
  16. 286NextA 2-minute video demo
  17. 287NextStories of real users who avoided a problem (with their permission)
  18. 288NextAn investors page with metrics
  19. 289NextAn honest comparison with other websites
  20. 290NextCost per project added
  21. 291NextAverage time to update each project page
  22. 292NextNew sources added per week
  23. 293NextLanguages and countries covered over time
  24. 294NextQuality: share of facts with a source
  25. 295NextAverage site speed over time
  26. 296NextA list of what we do not do, and why
  27. 297NextUser feedback and what changed because of it
  28. 298NextAn API page with the number of calls
  29. 299NextMCP server status with the number of uses
  30. 300NextA one-minute summary of Kolaboro

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