What should I pay attention to when buying a house in Japan?

Matters needing attention in buying a house in Japan: transfer the purchase price to an overseas account, bidding issues, property rights issues, and Japanese housing rental issues.

1. To buy a house in Japan, you must first transfer the purchase price to an overseas account: for China buyers, the purchase price is not a problem, but there is a limit of $50,000 per person per year in China. When buying a house in Japan, the seller requires the buyer to provide proof of the purchase price or bank loan, which is in English. After all, few Japanese can understand Chinese, so do as the Romans do and don't be defeated by details.

2. How to bid after seeing Japanese houses: Japan is a place with very transparent information. After seeing a real estate, most brokers will help guests evaluate the price of the house and estimate the present value of the house in market transactions. If the seller asks a high price, the broker will help the buyer bargain. If the asking price is lower than the market price, the broker will help the buyer grab it quickly.

3. Property right doesn't mean having it for a lifetime: As we all know, many buyers who have just arrived in China will have the concept that "buying a house in Japan means living for a lifetime, or even passing it on from generation to generation". In fact, this is not in line with the actual situation in Japan. According to the average statistics over the years, Japanese people change their houses every seven years or so. There are many reasons for changing rooms, such as the change of work place, children going out to study, the change of family population, or changing mature urban areas to remote and quiet places after retirement.

4. It is not difficult to rent a house in Japan: Osaka and Tokyo have a prosperous economy, a large number of migrants, and they are tourist cities, so they need to rent a lot of houses. Many property buyers are worried about the problem that their houses can't be rented out. Actually, there are too many concerns. You can't rent out without a house. In fact, whether the house can be rented out depends on whether the rent the owner wants is in line with the rental market price, and the key lies in whether the price is in line with the market.

Summary: Buying a house in Japan depends not only on the location of the house, but also on your actual situation and living conditions.

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Conditions for buying a house in Japan:

1. There are not many restrictions on buying real estate in Japan. As for China people who can buy Japanese real estate without a green card, Japan's real estate market is relatively free and open, and almost no state government sets data similar to the "purchase index". So if China people want to buy a house in Japan, they just need to prepare a large sum of money and find a suitable real estate agent, and everything will be fine.

2. You can't immigrate if you buy a house: foreigners can buy a house in Japan, but they can't obtain Japanese identity. Property right and residence right are different: in Japan, you can buy a house with property right or residence right, and the house with property right can be freely bought, sold and rented by the owner, while the house with residence right has only been owned for more than ten years and can only be rented and sold through the property neighborhood Committee, and the price is several times cheaper than that of the house with property right.