We began a new block of 6 one bedroom apartments in November this year (2009) and had no trouble at ...   more »

Well I had almost decided not to contribute any further articles as it was beginning in to feel like a job. However these days I do have time and have been asked by several people to at least post an article here and there.

We continue to develop residential rental properties here in Japan. Last year we purchased another couple of blocks of land for the purpose of building small residential rental apartments. We paid the land taxes to hold these empty for a year. Last week we began building a block of six 40 square meter rental apartments which we will market to single men and woman in the Hyogo area of Japan.

I will update this blog a little later as we have some decent photos.

Friday 27th April 2007.

The Bank of Japan has decided to adjust down it's forecast for the Japanese economic inflation. It no longer sees the 0.5% increase it expected for Japan's CPI and feels that 0.1% more accurately reflects the present economic condition of Japan. The BOJ board is sticking to it's guns and repeating that it "will adjust the level of interest rates gradually in accordance with improvements in the economic and price situation"

As such for now we shall see no further increases in the interest rates above the 0.5% that were set in February 2007.

BOJ Fukui "overall demand is exceeding overall supply, providing support for prices to continue to rise in the long-term,"   more »

That’s was quick, seems like the real estate boom is just getting going and now those “built for the general populace” products are ready to call it quits.   more »

With the interest rates holding at 0.25% now is the time to get in to your own real estate investment. It's also time to negotiate as hard as you can with the bank to fix that rate for as long as possible. Ten years sounds good to me and I know the banks will do it.   more »

Japan, at present the maximum depreciation allowable on investment assets is 95%.   more »

Sekisui House has reentered the Japanese real estate investment market   more »

BOJ raises interest rates. July 14th 2006.   more »

It’s July 2006 and the price of Japanese real estate is on the rise. Capital gains are here.   more »

Investors looking to make real estate investments in Japan need knowledge. Knowledge impacts how well they do. All real estate investors will ...   more »

You hire a primary real estate construction contractor but who is building your real estate investment?    more »

Singapore based financial services group adding it's weight to the Japanese real estate investment Market.   more »

On the subject of Japan's downtown real estate and rising prices I am always led to think of demolition costs.   more »

As far as real estate investments in Japan go, to me, it looks like a very nice project. The entire project came in with a 0.01% below budgeted cost and we can see a better than planned 7.8% yield   more »

These eleven one bedroom units completed March 31st 2006. Occupants moved in from April 1st. All units are fully rented as at April 1st 2006. The project finished on time and under budget.    more »