One inescapable reality is the fact that in Taiwan, real estate price information seriously lacks transparency-the list price and the actual purchase price are not necessarily the same. Huge gaps generally exist between official figures and reality. Credit rating companies specializing in performing valuations do exist, "but the confusion of prices is enough to send any foreign investors heading for the hills," explains Chen Yu-lin, general manager of China Credit Information.
不過，不爭的事實是，台灣不動產價格資訊不明的狀況嚴重，看得到的價格不見得就是買得到的價格，官方的統計數字和實際情況往往有極大落差，雖然有專業的評等公司做估價工作，「但是看到混亂的價格，就足以讓國外投資人打退堂鼓，」中華徵信副總經理陳玉霖指出。