japan property
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.
japan property
Japan’s fastest-rising residential land benchmarks are in Furano, Hakuba and Nozawa Onsen. We examine what the extraordinary rankings reveal—and what the official survey does not measure.
japan property
Foreign buyers accounted for 0.7% of Japan’s reported large land acquisitions in the new disclosure. Hokkaido’s concentration is striking, but the figures do not measure all property purchases or existing foreign ownership.
niseko moiwa
Moiwa’s visible listings rose 75% in 2025, while recorded sales fell to five. We examine house and land pricing, comparisons across Niseko and the significance of Aman’s planned arrival.
japan
Daiwa House is reorganising its domestic housing business around two pillars — new construction and existing housing — as population decline and rising costs reshape where future demand will come from.
niseko
Niseko’s parent-level sold average fell sharply while active asking values were much steadier. The explanation sits inside Hirafu, Other Niseko, Kutchan and the other sub-markets.
japan property
Niseko apartment sold values fell sharply, yet the median asking price did not move. Hakuba apartment tickets fell while asking ¥/sqm surged. The active market changes the interpretation of the sales data.
japan property
Some resort averages moved dramatically in Winter 2025/26. The active asking market often moved far less. Uchi separates sales composition from broader pricing to identify the kind of momentum each resort actually has.
japan property
Recorded resort-property activity accelerated in Winter 2025/26, but the broader asking market moved much less dramatically than some sold-unit averages suggest. Uchi explains why product mix, ¥/sqm and liquidity now need to be read together.
niseko
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.