Living Abroad

How Japan's 10% consumption tax applies to new and resale property purchases, agent fees, insurance and management costs.

Whether the 'school district property' premium common elsewhere applies in Japan, and how Japan's more equal education system changes the...

How to calculate surface yield and actual yield on Japanese property, and the holding costs — management fees, reserve fund,...

How Japan's Act on Land and Building Leases governs lease renewal, rent adjustment and fixture buy-back, and what it means...

The four types of 'kashi bukken' (defective property) in Japan — physical, legal, environmental and psychological — and what makes...

What counts as a 'jiko bukken' (stigmatized property) in Japan, the disclosure law that protects buyers and tenants, and two...

How Japan's earthquake resistance standards work, the 1981 and 2000 rule changes, and how to check whether a property meets...

The four main building structures used in Japan — wood, steel, reinforced concrete and steel-reinforced concrete — their statutory service...

How freehold (shoyuken) and leasehold (shakuchiken) ownership work for Japanese property, and the three types of leasehold rights investors should...

The four-step process for renting out property in Japan, from a tenant's move-out to signing a new tenant, plus fees...