A breathtaking piece of property in the heart of Tokyo has become the ultimate souvenir for wealthy foreign nationals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/17/markets/foreign-property-buyers-tokyo/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #expats #tokyo #realestate #housing #china #inflation

Orix’s real estate investment unit has raised the target size of one of its funds by 33%, reflecting rebounding Japanese institutional investor demand for property market deals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/12/orix-property-fund-boost/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #orix #realestate #inflation

The Kobe Municipal Government is mulling a nonstatutory municipal tax on owners of vacant or underused units in high-rise condominiums in central districts of the city. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/10/japan/kobe-eyes-tax-on-unused-condo-rooms/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kobe #taxes #realestate #depopulation

East Japan Railway has purchased from Goldman Sachs Group several floors in an office building connected directly to Tokyo Station, paying more than ¥50 billion. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/09/companies/goldman-office-jr-east/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #jreast #goldmansachs #rail #tokyo #realestate #depopulation

Nomura Holdings is creating a U.S. commercial real estate platform, with several hires from investment bank Barclays meant to fill a gap in the Japanese lender's securitized products and private credit unit. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/04/companies/nomura-barclays-hires/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #nomura #barclays #banks #realestate #us

New Zealand on Monday said it will open its housing market to wealthy foreigners who invest in local businesses, reversing a previous ban in expectation it will boost economic growth. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/01/new-zealand-foreign-investors-homes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #realestate #housing #newzealand

Hiroshima’s annual ceremony for world peace was canceled in 1950 due to the Korean War. Fifty years later, in 2000, land prices across Japan were still struggling to recover from the burst of the asset bubble. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/02/japan/history/hiroshima-peace-tokyo-floods-land-prices/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #floods #hiroshima #koreanwar #terrorism #malaysia #japaneseredarmy #realestate #japaneseeconomy

GTN takes a chance on newcomers to Japan by acting as a guarantor for non-Japanese tenants. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/31/companies/gtn-foreigners-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #foreignworkers #foreigntrainees #housing #property #realestate #propertyrental

China risks repeating Japan’s policy mistakes of the 1990s by misdiagnosing a deep demographic and real estate crisis as a short-term economic slowdown, potentially triggering long-term stagnation and population decline. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/07/06/world/chinas-housing-crisis-is-worse-than-it-seems/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #china #realestate #housing #chineseeconomy #japaneseeconomy

The Asaichi-dori morning market street in the city of Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, registered the largest year-on-year drop among the 2025 highest roadside land prices surveyed by tax offices across the nation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/02/japan/noto-roadside-land-price/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #ishikawa #earthquakes #realestate #economicindicators #notopeninsula

Rising real estate prices in Japan have led investors to begin considering as an option "misfortunate properties," homes where deaths have occurred. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/01/japan/misfortunate-properties/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #realestate #death #aging #suicide #surveys #misfortunateproperties

Apartment rents in Tokyo are rising at the fastest pace in 30 years, in the latest sign for the Bank of Japan that the nation’s inflation trend is spreading deeper through the economy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/26/economy/tokyo-apartment-rents-up/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #housing #realestate #economicindicators #japaneseeconomy #inflation #boj

There were around 250 requests in fiscal 2024 from the Japan Tourism Agency to accommodation booking websites and others to take down listings for illegal private lodging services. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/25/japan/illegal-minpaku-takedown-requests/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #realestate #minpaku #tourism

Daiwa Securities plans to launch a real estate fund with two partners, tapping investor demand for a piece of Japan’s booming property market. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/25/companies/daiwa-real-estate-fund/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #daiwa #brokerages #realestate