Apartment transactions and sale prices recover in June
Buying activity in the greater Tokyo area is starting to resume, with monthly transactions starting to recover from levels seen during the shut down in April and May. In June, a total of 3,107 second-hand apartments were reported to have sold across greater Tokyo, up 83.6% from May. This number is still 11% below the transactions seen in June 2019, but an improvement from the 52.6% year-on-year drop seen in April and the 38.5% drop seen in May.