Sales in Harumi Towers off to a good start
Sales of apartments in Mitsubishi Jisho and Kajima Corporation's latest waterfront development project, The Park House Harumi Towers Krono Residence, are off to a good start this month with 288 of the 320 apartments initially available receiving purchase applications. A total of 377 applications were made on those 288 apartments.
Located in the bayfront Harumi area, Krono Residence will have 883 apartments over 49 floors. The next round of sales begins at the end of April. Another tower residence is scheduled to be built right next door to Krono and the two towers will have over 1,800 apartments.
The sales office and showroom was opened in January and received over 3,500 visitors. The most popular units were a 79 sqm 3-Bedroom apartment priced in the 50 million Yen range, and a 42 sqm 1-Bedroom priced in the 20 million Yen range. The purchase applications on some of these units exceeded availability five-fold. The majority of apartments were priced in the 52 million Yen range, with the most expensive unit sold being 199.8 million Yen penthouse apartment.
Buyers were in their 30s and 40s and consisted mostly of 2 member households. Many were moving out of other high-rise residences.
Source: Shukan Jutaku, April 17, 2012.
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