Fill in your stomach, before developing long term view
2020年2月6日 Japanese Society
Japan has been suffering from the lack of workforce, its for sure. To fulfill such deficit, non-Japanese students have come to Japan. They are coming here as students. Majority study Japanese however, some are simply aiming at working here. There are many cases where non-Japanese students have done illegal part time jobs. I used …
Workaction! Work Style innovation in Japan
2020年2月6日 Market Trend
Now, the word “Workacation” has been a trend in Japan. This means working but enjoying our holidays in vacation destination. Offices no need to be in city center, taking into account the internet working environment and technologies. Furthermore, recent lack of the work force, major companies have been keen on attracting younger generation to commit …
Akiya, Abandoned Houses, petit owners regime…
2020年2月4日 Market Trend
In 2018, abandoned houses in Japan reached to 62 million, 13 percent of existing residential stocks. Why this happened? Under aging society, poor succession policies as well as wooden structures’ functional deterioration have promoted this phenomena. On the other hand, after surviving lost decades, Japanese relatively younger generations say, 30-50es, have started real estate investments. …
Genius artist lived in the same era as did Davinci
2020年2月3日 Uncategorized
You should not live on Ikebana, this is the principle motto that our Souami Ikebana school master needs to follow. Thus, he has two occupations, one is Ikebana teaching and the other is painting. Our master mentioned following as his new year speech. Last year was the five hundred celebration year since Leonard DaVinci died. …
RICS Annual Dinner in Tokyo
2020年2月1日 Events
It was in 2009 when I first started RICS as the working group to set up the Japan chapter. Twice of three times in a year, I ve got involve in arranging several events for commercial property professionals. It has been my learning and exploring path as professional and expanding my network not only in …
Logistic Property, its potential and growth
2020年1月31日 Investment Highlights
It was around 2006, when I was talking with my supervisor, an English guy, about the retail property investment, he said “Yuko, shopping is a leisure….Thus we can expect strong demand for retail spaces. ” Actually I didn’t really agree with him as in Japan, I had not been buying my personal goods through so-called …
Teppan Bancho, how do you manage your residential investment?
2020年1月30日 Market Trend
“Hi Yuko, I would like to sell my condominium located in Bancho* now, what do you think?” One of my clients asked me. “Well, now the market has been booming and it’s a good timing to sell. For another several percent, you may be able to expect the price increase but you are not sure …
Clemency of Torii, what has driven Suntory
2020年1月30日 Family Business
During the new year holidays, I read Shinjiro Torii’s biography, ” Foundation of graceful in Whisky” (Hisashi Sugimori, Shincho Bunko). In this book, there are a few things I found to be the key to family business prosperity and continuity. I would like to pick them up and share with you. Torii was known for …
Market Trend, price drop signs, small business discontinuity
2020年1月28日 Market Trend
The market trend Price reduce signs The market has been in heated, but has been showing a sign of peaking out. For instance, the downtime has been longer than it was before and the asking price has actually been settled at the price where cap rate of 3-4 percent is applicable, regarding the residential …
