Category: PROPERTY

"I spent I don't know how many hours just daydreaming of living in Japan and purchasing one of these houses," Eric McAskill told Insider. ( read original story ...)

International investors are also attracted to Japan's low borrowing costs, and putting more money into hotels because of a post-pandemic tourism boom. ( read original story ...)

No new projects were completed during the quarter. Net absorption in Osaka’s office property market totalled 600 sqm in 2Q23, according to a JLL report. A return to normal activities in the post-COVID ... ( read original story ...)

Located in Fukushima-Ku ward, a residential area in the heart of Osaka, it capitalises on the compact, 128-square-metre plot with a radical 13-level design. Devoid of interior walls and doors, the ... ( read original story ...)

The Japan Tourism Agency – under the country’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism – said on Friday it had approved the implementation plan to develop an integrated resort (IR) in ... ( read original story ...)

Addiction Tokyo has created, well, quite an addiction in Japan with their makeup products. Toting “skin melt technology,” overseas the brand is known for its long-wearing eyeshadows ... ( read original story ...)

The global risk of housing bubbles has significantly decreased in 2023, with only Zurich and Tokyo remaining in the bubble risk category, according to the UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index 2023 ... ( read original story ...)

Bankrupt Japanese hotel chain Unizo Holdings has selected U.S. investment fund KKR as its restructuring sponsor, the Nikkei business daily reported on Friday. ( read original story ...)

Eric McAskill says that he hasn't been to the grocery store in two weeks, because his neighbors have been sharing their harvests with his family. ( read original story ...)

Women find the Kitasenju neighborhood of the Japanese capital's Adachi Ward the most desirable place to live across the entire Tokyo region, ･･･ ... ( read original story ...)

In finalising the insurance and reinsurance industry loss estimate for Japanese typhoon Nanmadol, which struck the country in September 2022, catastrophe ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese resort company is converting an iconic former prison into a 48-room luxury hotel. The Former Nara Prison, built in 1908 and designated a cultural property in Japan in 2017, is to be ... ( read original story ...)

Shigeto Nagai, head of Japan at Oxford Economics, says that could happen if the current conditions in the property market continue. ( read original story ...)

Economic growth in developing Asia this year will be slightly lower than previously expected as the weakness in China's property sector and El Niño-related risks cloud regional prospects, the Asian ... ( read original story ...)

From glamorous hotspots and sky-high suites to boutique gems, these are the places to stay in the Japanese capital Tokyo is Japan 's biggest city, and indeed, by population, the largest in the world. ( read original story ...)

Roughly one in 10 people in Japan is over 80 for the first time, new figures have revealed. The country is wresstling with an aging average population with 29% of the population over the age of 65, ... ( read original story ...)