53-storey condominium tower for Hiroshima
A 53-storey, 178m tall condominium is planned for downtown Hiroshima with completion scheduled for April 2020. This will be the tallest condominium based on total floor count to have been built across the Chugoku, Shikoku and Kyushu region since 1994.
‘hitoto Hiroshima The Tower’ is a 665-unit high-rise with 2 ~ 4 Bedroom apartments ranging in size from 55 ~ 143 sqm (592 ~ 1,539 sq.ft). A 80 sqm apartment on the 18th floor is expected to be priced in the 50 million Yen range (approx. 470,000 USD). Sales are scheduled to begin in mid-April 2018.Read more
Apartment asking prices in Tokyo in February 2018
According to Tokyo Kantei, the average asking price of a 70 sqm (753 sq.ft) apartment across greater Tokyo was 35,980,000 Yen in February 2018, showing no change from the previous month but up 0.4% from last year. The average building age was 23.4 years.Read more
Shiba Park Building sells for 150 billion Yen
The Kansai Electric Power Co. and Tokyo Gas have jointly acquired the trust beneficiary rights to Shiba Park Building in central Tokyo on March 20. The acquisition price has not been made public, but insiders suggest a price somewhere in the range of 150 billion Yen (approx. 1.4 billion USD).Read more
Art Deco building in downtown Tokyo sells for 85 billion Yen
Japan Post Insurance have posted a capital gain of 85.03 billion Yen (approx. 803 million USD) on the sale of an Art Deco building and land in Tokyo’s Minato ward that took place in February. The buyer was Mitsui Fudosan Residential.Read more
New apartment prices in Greater Tokyo up 7.8% in February
According to the Real Estate Economic Institute, 2,490 brand new apartments were released for sale across greater Tokyo in February, up 28.7% from the previous month and up 7.8% from last year. The average sale price was 61,280,000 Yen, up 5.8% from last year. The average price per square meter was 889,000 Yen, up 4.3% from last year.
The contract ratio was 65.0%, down 3.4 points from last year and down 0.2 points from the previous month.Read more
Luxury hotel and condominium planned for Ebisu
Nomura Real Estate Development is planning a mixed-use hotel and condominium complex for a 4,000 sqm block of land near Ebisu Station in central Tokyo. Mixed-use hotel / apartment projects are quite uncommon in Japan, with one of the few examples being Mori Building’s Toranomon Hills tower in Minato ward.
Nomura acquired the site in March 2017 for 10.5 billion Yen through a public bidding process. It was previously a government-owned housing complex for civil servants. The government required the buyer to build both apartments and accommodation facilities as a condition of the sale.Read more