Hoshino Resorts sees strong potential in troubled Osaka site

The property is to open its doors in 2022 and will be Hoshino's second-largest location. But this seemingly ideal site comes with a long and freighted history: The Airin district, Osaka's skid row, is right nearby. The Festival Gate development blending an ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is invading…the PSE

But while all of this is going on, noninstitutional investors are finding their way here also. A Japanese-run property brokerage house, Seven Seas Properties Corp., has been successfully marketing Philippine real estate to its Japanese clients for some ... ( read original story ...)

Osaka cops: Body believed to be ex-yakuza found at residence

Osaka Prefectural Police believe that a body discovered buried at a property in Izumi City belongs to a former gang member, reports NHK (Apr. 20). On Wednesday, police searched the property, located in the Kuzunohacho area, and found the body of an adult ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo's office space market softening ahead of 2018

TOKYO -- Tokyo's office property market is beginning to weaken despite very low availability on expectations of a spike in the supply of new office space in 2018. Alarmed by the trend, commercial real estate developers are stepping up their marketing ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo's skyline set to see 45 new skyscrapers by 2020 Olympics

Tokyo’s skyline is set to welcome 45 new skyscrapers by the time city hosts the Olympics in 2020, as a surge of buildings planned in the early years of Abenomics near completion. Japan’s capital will see nearly 50 percent more new high-rise space in ... ( read original story ...)

Astro Japan completes purchase of ¥10B shopping mall

Astro Japan Property Group (ASX:AJA) has completed its purchase of a ¥10 billion shopping mall in Japan. In Australian currency, that works out to be $121 million. The property which the company acquired is the FKD Shopping Plaza in Utsonomiya City ... ( read original story ...)

Hotel New Otani Tokyo, The Main

The Bar - Located on the Tower building's 40th floor, with view of Tokyo Tower. Serves drinks ... You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property: A tax is imposed by the city: JPY 200 per person, per night We have included all charges ... ( read original story ...)

China’s property bubble requires supply-side reform

Many investors compare China's current property market with Japan's housing price bubble which collapsed in the early 1990s and caused a downturn in the country's economy for almost three decades. Tokyo investors raised several interesting questions. ( read original story ...)