Japanese real estate can be very lucrative. For example, take the current average return on investment (ROI) in the 23 Special Wards of Tokyo. Using this average ROI, for every $100,000 you invest, you’ll get $5,500 per year in passive income. This number goes up to $6,500 in the outlying areas of Tokyo. It soars [...]
A stigmatised property (事故物件, jikobukken) is real estate in which something very bad or controversial happened in the recent past. Stigmatised properties have special financial and legal implications. There are several different reasons a property can become stigmatized: Perhaps there was an unnatural death there: a murder, a suicide, or a “lonely death” (孤独死, kodokushi). [...]