Category: Real Estate

You might recall some recent headlines about surging property prices in Tokyo. And while that […]

JR East Building Co., the real estate division of East Japan Railway, acquired the Shibuya […]

Starting April 1, some major rule changes were made to the Real Property Registration Act […]

Just 4% of the hotels in Japan’s major cities have rooms that can accommodate three […]

The modernist Okayama Civic Hall in Okayama City closed its doors at the end of […]

On March 27, LoadStar Capital announced the formation of a special purpose company to acquire […]

Let’s do a bit of a dive into a multi-family property listed for sale in […]

It has taken many, many meetings, but we have managed to source over ¥80 billion […]

Annual land values were announced on Tuesday and the return-to-work trend, recovery in inbound tourism, […]

Ever heard of a lawyers building (弁護士ビル) ? As the name suggests, they’re designed almost […]

A J-REIT has sold a large office building in Shinagawa at a 12% loss to […]

In February, the office vacancy rate in the Chiyoda business district in Tokyo reached the […]

Here’s a summary of a market analysis on a multi-family apartment building for sale in […]

Mostly through a professional network that we have carefully maintained and grown over the past […]

Small housing options continue to dominate Tokyo’s rental supply, while larger ones remain a rare […]

A recently-built office building in Omotesando has been acquired by a J-REIT at an assumed […]

Osaka’s most expensive apartment building went on sale on February 19, with 2,523 applications made […]

United Urban Investment Corporation, a J-REIT, has paid 8.435 billion Yen (approx. US$56 million) for […]

Advertised apartment rents in Tokyo have been on a noticeable increase since around mid-2022, but it’s […]

With cap rates on some multi-family buildings in Tokyo now in the 3% range, furnished […]

Japan Metropolitan Fund Investment Corporation (JMF) is acquiring the trust beneficiary rights to four rental […]

News broadcaster NHK has now picked up on the struggling office market conditions around Tokyo […]

Landlords continue to get creative with their rental properties with one in Ebisu offering a […]

The average vacancy rate for existing office buildings in Tokyo’s central five districts has seen […]

A shortage of housing in Nozawa Onsen is creating headaches for new residents. The bustling […]

On February 16, Bridgestone reported the sale of a company housing compound in Roppongi to […]

This retail building in Omotesando is selling for 5 billion Yen. A-FLAG Kotto-dori is being […]

A 13-story office building in Takanawa, Tokyo, has just been flipped for a 7 billion […]

Greater Tokyo, which includes Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba Prefectures, recorded a net inflow of […]

Last month, Orix JREIT signed an agreement to sell this office building alongside Platinum Avenue […]

AtHome conducted a nationwide survey of renters in their 20s to find out what they’re […]

Last December, the average room rate for a hotel in Japan was 21,102 Yen, up […]

Kyoritsu Maintenance, an operator of hotels, aged-care, and student accommodations, is planning to acquire a […]

Renewed population growth in Tokyo has resulted in rents in the 23 wards increasing by […]

The following is a list of some of the off-market listings we have dug up […]

Those rental meeting rooms that you see dotted around central Tokyo are starting to increase […]

Daiwa House Industry plans to enter Japan’s relatively untapped hotel-condo market by 2026, according to […]

Wakayama City is expected to soon sell a long-idle site in an industrial park to […]

KDX Realty Investment Corporation is acquiring the trust beneficiary rights to the 340-room Okinawa Prince […]

Out of Japan’s 47 prefectures, Tokyo will be the only one to see a population […]

In December, office rents in central Tokyo saw the first month-on-month increase in 3.5 years. […]

The Real Estate Economic Institute published a recent report looking back at Japan’s condominium-type apartment […]

In 2023, Japan’s property market continued to see high demand thanks to some of the […]

Even though 2023 is drawing to a close, some market data takes a long time […]

Last month, a J-REIT announced the sale of a 120-unit multi-family building near Shinagawa for […]

Rents for more spacious ‘family-type’ apartments in Japan’s major cities reached record highs in October, […]

Despite being on leasehold land, this recently-built hotel in Asakusa sold last week for 65.5 […]

Japan’s island-filled Setouchi region will be home to three boutique Mandarin Oriental hotels between 2027 […]

According to Tokyo Kantei, the average monthly rent of a condominium-type apartment in Tokyo’s 23 […]

On November 8, Niseko Town announced plans to introduce an incremental hotel tax that will […]

Cold storage warehousing is expected to face dire market conditions in the coming years with […]

To gain a bit more insight into Tokyo’s multi-family market, we took a sample of […]

Land values across Japan are rising at an increasing pace after suffering some declines during […]

These are some of the off-market properties we sourced for our clients last month. A […]

Last week the Nikkei Real Estate Market Report announced that the rumored sale price of […]

A quickly recovering inbound tourism industry coupled with a labor shortage has caused hotel rates […]

Luxury housing in Tokyo still remains the cheapest amongst the top global cities by a […]

Built at a cost of 17.6 billion Yen, this long-closed museum was recently offered for […]

Last month, inbound tourist arrivals exceeded pre-pandemic levels for the first time. A total of […]

The office vacancy rate for existing buildings in central Tokyo’s five business districts reached a […]

In 2026, Marriott International will open a The Luxury Collection-branded hotel near the Tottori Sand […]

In an interesting shift in plans, Banyan Tree’s first ski resort hotel in Japan will […]

Demolition of half of the historic Gakushi Kaikan (学士会間) will start in 2025. The property […]

A 230-meter tall skyscraper in central Tokyo will be the first high-rise in the world […]