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Summary

When buying a property, it is crucial to conduct thorough research and understand key factors such as the location, price, floor plan, and more.

Property Search Criteria

Location & Environment

Solid Ground

• Japan experiences many natural disasters such as earthquakes and you want your property build on solid ground. You want to avoid reclaimed land (Umetatechi) refers to land that has been created by filling in bodies of water, such as seas, rivers, or wetlands.
• Our preferences
  • Check these websites to understand the risk

Walking distance to the nearest train station

• We want to live close by a train station because we will mostly travel by train as we get older.
• Property around the train station tends to be more expensive but it is usually surround with convenient stores, drug stores, and restaurants.
• Our preferences
  • 10 min walking distant

Easy access to Tokyo and Airports

• Tokyo is the central hub to travel to other area of Japan, and easy access to airports is important for us considering we may have friends visiting from outside of Japan.
• Our preferences
  • ~1 hour on Express train without transfer
  • Train frequency, at least 1 hour per train

Surrounding environment

• Our preferences
  • Convenience to go to supermarkets, convenience stores, clinics, banks, and post offices in
  • Well-planned, walkable and clean streets with little slopes.
  • Low crime rates, check these site for reference.

Positive Population growth

• Community services like shuttle bus, frequency of trains, library are proportion to the size of population.
  • Our preferences
    • Steady growth of job and population

Balance Demographic and Community Atmosphere

• Our preferences
  • Balanced demographics promote fairness and lead to higher resident satisfaction.

Property Features

Sufficient Elvators

• Make sure enough elvators to handle busy hours and manintaince schedule
• However, too many also increase the mantaince cost
• Most building have one elvator per 100 units
• Our preferences
  • At least 2

Total number of units

Condo vs High-riese Tower Condo

HOA (Maintenance fee, repair reserve/sink fund)

Tenant-Occupied Property (Owner Change)

Sttigmatized property (History of incidents)