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BBC Business reporter   comments Image caption Hong Kong boasts the second highest office rental costs in the world The property market, like that of gold and oil, is a rather murky world. The prices you'll see on most websites are asking prices. The value of a done deal - the real price - can take land registries weeks to process, by which time a fast-paced market will have moved on. So those on the inside doing the deals, such as estate agents and developers, have a distinct advantage. Could technology help blast open this closed market? Teun van den Dries, chief executive of Dutch software company GeoPhy , believes his data analytics software program could do just that, starting with commercial property, a global market worth about €22.5tn (£15.7tn), according to the European Public Real Estate Association . Image caption GeoPhy's Mr van den Dries says his software tracks 40 million buildings in the UK His program crunches lots of different ...