Learn how foreigners really purchase property in Japan, from property viewing to mortgage. The webinar might be held from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. (JST) on May 23 (Saturday).
- Host: Dovetail Inc.
- Date: May 23
- Time: 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. (Japan Standard Time)
- Admission: Free
Getting a mortgage in Japan as a foreigner is totally doable, however the system isn’t precisely constructed with expats in thoughts. Between tough visa necessities, rigorous financial institution screenings, and strict property eligibility guidelines, the method can really feel overwhelming, and lots of normal actual property brokers merely aren’t outfitted to assist non-Japanese patrons navigate it.
Whether you reside in Japan on a piece visa or wish to purchase from abroad, this webinar will stroll you thru what you really have to know. We will break down the Japanese mortgage panorama, sharing sensible, on-the-ground recommendation drawn from direct expertise negotiating with Japanese financial institution officers on behalf of overseas purchasers.
TOPICS
- The Agent Factor: Why your actual property agent’s relationships with banks may be simply as necessary as your revenue.
- Offshore Financing: Options in the event you aren’t a resident.
- The Application Process: How the two-step mortgage course of (jizen-shinsa and hon-shinsa) works.
- Visa Requirements:Â Why Permanent Residency (PR) is now not a strict dealbreaker at sure banks.
- The Bank Interview:Â What banks are literally searching for within the interview (mendan)
- Life Insurance (Danshin):Â How to navigate this obligatory requirement, together with choices when you have a medical historical past.
- Property Eligibility:Â What really makes a property eligible for mortgage.
- Choosing a Bank:Â The sensible variations between mega-banks, regional banks, and internet banks.
- The True Costs:Â A sensible breakdown of closing prices, evaluating flat charges towards percentage-based fashions.
- Real Transactions:Â Three Case research from precise offers, to higher perceive the challenges and the way we did overcome that.
Dovetail Inc
Dovetail is a brand new and fast-growing brokerage positioned in central Tokyo.
Their crew features a bilingual agent with 5 years expertise in brokerage in addition to workers skilled in housing help companies for foreigners.
Their workers can information overseas patrons by the acquisition journey, from preliminary fact-finding and wishes evaluation to explaining cultural nuances, tax guidelines and all of the trivia concerned in buying a property as a foreigner.
As their identify suggests, the Dovetail crew prides itself on streamlining and harmonizing the acquisition course of, with the objective of creating your own home shopping for journey as seamless as doable.
Click right here to see at the moment out there properties in Tokyo, Saitama, Kanagawa and Chiba that the Dovetail crew can help you with.
Join them for this installment of their widespread sequence of webinars on how one can purchase a house in Japan as a foreigner.
Speakers
Dovetail Inc
Francesco PicardiÂ
Real Estate Agent
Francesco Picardi is an actual property guide at Dovetail, a bilingual brokerage in Tokyo that works with overseas nationals shopping for property in Japan. He speaks Japanese, English, and Italian, and got here to this work as an expat himself, so he is navigated a number of the identical frictions his purchasers face. One of his focuses at Dovetail is financing, which is the place most overseas purchaser offers disintegrate. He has labored with individuals who have tough visa conditions, non-standard revenue, or circumstances that make Japanese banks uncomfortable. A great chunk of his instances come from patrons whose earlier brokers had already instructed them it wasn’t doable.

Dovetail IncÂ
Yukihiro TakenagaÂ
Licensed Real Estate AgentÂ
Yukihiro is a licensed actual property agent with over 6 years of expertise in each property gross sales and leases. In his present function, he makes a speciality of helping purchasers, particularly worldwide residents, with discovering their dream house within the Tokyo space. Before becoming a member of Dovetail, Yukihiro held a crew chief place at a number one actual property firm, the place he developed a powerful basis in property session and customer support.
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