Happy New Year!! Welcome to 2025!! 🥳🎉🎆

We hope everyone had a great 2024! Over the past year, many changes in the akiya and property space have taken place. So much interest is being generated from buyers and entrepreneurs from overseas. We remain convinced that Japan is poised for an incredible surge in growth and renewal in the coming decade.

Our mission of "connecting Japanese culture and commerce to the broader world" is progressing carefully. We remain focused on delivering a great search for non-Japanese speakers to get their start in navigating the property market in Japan. However much remains to be done — we are excited to reveal our plans in due course. As the original service of this type, our invitation remains open to anyone who wishes to join us in this mission.

This year we welcomed a partnership with one of Japan's premier licensed property brokers: teritoru. Hioki-san and her team share our mission, and deliver such a professional, comprehensive service. They are friendly and engaged with their clients, and have all you require to complete your purchase and enjoy your place in Japan for many years to come.

We conducted a short interview with Hioki-san recently, which you can find here.

We'd like to wish everyone good luck, good health, and good searches for 2025. May this year mark the start of a great life ahead!

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Announcing our partnership with teritoru

We are so proud to announce our partnership with teritoru.

teritoru are a Japanese brokerage firm with a broad network of connections across the country. Importantly, they are fully licensed and have experience with handling international clients, small and high-profile.

All their agents are fluent in English, and they are a highly attentive, professional outfit.

Of course we also love that we have a shared mission of bridging Japanese culture and commerce with the world.

You can book a chat with teritoru via phone or Zoom call by clicking the “Learn more” button on any property listing page.

To celebrate our partnership, we have a special promotion available to our Yearly subscribers. Please click “Learn more” to check it out (you must be signed in).

If you would like to read about teritoru, you can visit their website at: https://teritoru.com/en

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Search using your Current Location

For subscribers in Japan we've added the ability to search using your current location. At the top of your Map Search screen you will see a blue dot, indicating your location. Click that to start. If requested, please "allow" your browser to view your location for this feature to work.

For our European users, we've added support for search using the EUR € !!

We've also passed 200,000 listings and 264 sources and still adding more every day.

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