niseko
Thirteen Park Hyatt-branded villas of up to 1,000 sqm are about to test the very top of Niseko’s residential market, where scarcity, design and service are increasingly becoming as important as location.
real estate
More than half of Mitsubishi Estate Real Estate Services’ sales staff describe Japan’s property market as being at a peak, yet appetite for hotels remains exceptionally strong and professional investors are still looking to buy.
niseko
Small land parcels ranged from a median sold-listing value of ¥18.88m in Niseko Town to ¥60m in Hirafu. Larger land tells a very different story.
niseko
Visible inventory expanded across Niseko in 2025, but recorded sales did not rise at the same pace. We map eight distinct submarkets and the different forms of value they offered.
development
From Aruku-zaka Street in Hirafu to Capella Tokyo in Nishi-Azabu, Japan’s next major developments are increasingly being shaped by service, design, density, execution risk and the need to fit more carefully into the places around them.
japan
Rising bankruptcies among construction and small firms are not a crisis story, but they are a useful reminder that Japan’s property markets are being shaped as much by buildability, cost control and operational resilience as by buyer demand.
premium data
The full Uchi Insights report on Niseko Town’s 2025 property market, covering inventory, sales activity, pricing, land trends, sales velocity and comparisons with Kutchan.
hakuba
Hakuba is still often described as a cheaper land market than Niseko. The 2025 price-per-square-metre data suggests that assumption now needs to be tested.
nozawa onsen
With only 12 visible listings, six sales and 75.5-day average dated velocity in 2025, Nozawa's scarcity case is no longer only anecdotal.
resort real estate
A ¥100m house budget means something completely different across Japan's mountain markets. The best value depends on whether the priority is space, liquidity, momentum or scarcity.
kutchan
Kutchan’s property market expanded sharply in 2025, but the data points to a very different kind of demand from the resort core.
data
The new Uchi Insights Hirafu annual market report looks at the premium core of Japan’s ski real estate market, and why Hirafu should be read separately from broader Niseko.