Buying a Home in Japan as a Foreigner: Options for Buying, Remodeling and Built to Order

Real Estate Japan is pleased to present the webinar version of our popular series of seminars on buying your dream home in Japan.

In this seminar, we will cover the basics of buying a home, including:

• Real estate market trends
• Interest rates
• Financing options based on your visa status
• Government subsidies to help you with a home purchase
• Tax benefits and tax deductions
• How to negotiate the purchase price

New topics for this seminar include:

• Purchasing existing homes and possibly remodeling vs. purchasing land & constructing from scratch
• How COVID-19 is affecting the market. We’ll lightly touch on this compared to the other topics as the market is continuing to evolve with the COVID situation
• Considerations for renting out or reselling in the future (including how houses/mansion units compare)

This seminar is designed for foreign residents of Japan, but our partner Century 21 Nisshin is also able to provide assistance to overseas residents who are interested in buying a home in Japan.

Q&A session will be held at the end of the online seminar

Bring your questions and take notes, as we will hold a Q&A session at the end!

Free, online consultations are available by appointment

For a private consultation, please indicate that you would like to request an appointment on the registration form. A consultant from Century 21 Nisshin will contact you. Century 21 Nisshin is a Tokyo-based real estate agency staffed by experienced, bilingual agents.

Our partner, Century 21 Nisshin, is able to offer personalized consultation, including the following.

• Property information from REINS (the Japanese version of the Multiple Listing Service) as well as additional information from local agents.
• Consulting with banks to find out how much you can borrow.
• Provide Income/Expenditure spreadsheets for properties you are interested in, including costs involved in finding tenants.

Properties currently for sale

All the agents listing properties on Real Estate Japan are able to assist clients in English and Japanese; some of our partner agents are also able to speak Traditional and Simplified Chinese.

Before attending the seminar, you may want to look through properties currently available on Real Estate Japan to see if there are any of interest. If so, you can inquire directly to the agent handling the listing by filling out the inquiry form on the property detail page. Please click the links below to see current listings:

All For Sale Property Listings

Investment Property Listings

Articles on Buying Property in Japan

Real Estate Japan regularly publishes articles on buying, selling, and investing in property in Japan, covering a wide of topics from data and market reports to macroeconomic trends and featured properties from around the country.

Here are a few of our most popular articles on home buying:

• Guide to buying a home in Japan
• Average price of an apartment in Japan in 2020 — Ranked by Prefecture
• Questions to ask when buying a condominium in Japan
• What to ask before buying a vacant house in Japan
• Where do foreigners want to buy homes in Tokyo? Here are the Top 5 most popular stations

Please visit the Resources section to see all of our articles.