The spec sheet, not the sales pitch
Floor area, land area, layout, construction year, distance to a station — the same fields a Japanese listing sheet carries, on every property, in one comparable format.
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Japanese property,
read properly.
3 houses, apartments and plots across all 1 prefectures — indexed from the municipalities and banks that publish them, and presented with the data that decides whether a cheap house is a bargain.
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- Listings
- 3indexed nationwide
- Prefectures
- 1all of Japan
- From
- $3,870lowest asking price
- Under $97k
- 3100% of the index
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What you get
What the price is hiding
Flood, landslide, tsunami and earthquake exposure per property, and a flag on anything built before the 1981 seismic revision. Cheap houses are usually cheap for a reason worth reading.
The real number to own it
Asking price is the smallest part. Every listing carries acquisition costs and a renovation band, so a ¥800,000 house is presented as what it actually costs to end up living in.
Where the inventory is
Vacant housing concentrates away from the metropolitan corridors. These carry the most listings today.
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Cheap is not the same as safe
Japan’s vacant housing sits disproportionately on flood plains, in landslide zones, and along coastline. That is a large part of why it is affordable, and it is usually the last thing a listing tells you. Here it is on the map and on every property.
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Derived from open hazard data. The municipality’s official ハザードマップ remains the authority, and is what a lender checks.