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Tokyo Apartment Prices Hit Records as Sales Slow
Record new-build averages and weaker sales reveal different pressures across Greater Tokyo. We examine the property mix, developer pricing and mortgage affordability.
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What Japan’s New Condominium Data Reveals About Flipping
MLIT’s updated figures show increased one-year resales in Tokyo’s 2024 new-build cohort. They offer useful evidence about turnover, while leaving buyer motivation, profitability and nationality as separate questions.
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The Hidden Cost Rising Inside Japan’s Condominium Market
Nearly every major condominium management company surveyed in Japan has proposed higher repair reserves over the past year, highlighting a growing ownership cost that buyers cannot afford to overlook.
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What Is Uchi Insights? A Clearer View Of Japan’s Property Markets
Uchi Insights combines real-world property activity, market data and local knowledge to examine what is actually happening across Japan’s resort and lifestyle property markets—and what the numbers can, and cannot, tell us.
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Hanazono’s 2025 Property Market: More Value, Fewer Properties
Hanazono’s visible property market became considerably more valuable in 2025, with almost the same total asking value as the much larger Other Niseko Areas market—but concentrated across roughly one third of the listings.
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Reports & Analysis
Explore the latest Uchi Insights Premium reports covering Japan’s resort and lifestyle property markets, with data-led analysis, market commentary and subscriber access.
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The Most Active Part of Niseko’s Property Market Isn’t Where You Might Expect
After breaking Niseko into its individual property markets, one result stood out: the highest number of visible sales in 2025 came not from Hirafu, Hanazono or another established resort village, but from the wider areas surrounding them.
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What the Brand Premium Buys—and What It Does Not
Hirafu has depth, Hanazono an operating luxury ecosystem, Higashiyama delivered brands, Moiwa long-dated Aman optionality and Annupuri lower-basis land.
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Where Niseko Property Actually Moved—and Why the Drive-To Market Led
Hirafu and Kutchan each recorded 43 sales in 2025, but against very different stock. The wider drive-to market led overall with 80.
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Niseko’s Stalled Projects Are Getting Second Chances
Fairmont’s revival of the former La Plume development shows how Niseko’s underlying strength can preserve value after a project fails, although Aruku-zaka and Niseko Hanazono Village underline how demanding delivery has become.
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Niseko Town’s 2025 Property Market Shows A Different Side Of Resort Demand
Niseko Town became much more visible on Uchi in 2025, with stronger activity across houses and land, but the full story sits outside the resort-core headlines.
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Niseko Has No Shortage of Projects. Delivery Is the Harder Part.
Niseko continues to attract ambitious developments and major brands, but announced investment is not the same as completed supply. After one major Hanazono development missed a critical planning deadline, the distinction between proposed and deliverable supply has become even clearer.