Condos for Sale in Japan
Browse 75,000+ resold Japanese condominiums across Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, and beyond, with English listings updated daily.
A Japanese condo — manshon (マンション), usually translated as “mansion” but meaning a concrete-and-steel apartment in a shared building — is the most common form of owned housing in Japanese cities. The 中古マンション (chūko manshon, “used condo”) category on this page covers resold units: apartments bought from the original developer or owner and now back on the secondary market. Unlike a detached house, you are buying the unit plus a proportional share of the building’s land and common parts under Japan’s sectional ownership law. Inventory is concentrated where people actually live & mdash; central Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kobe, Fukuoka — and we aggregate resold units from across Japan’s major portals into a single English-language search.
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What “condo” means in Japan
The Japanese word manshon (マンション) is a wasei-eigo term borrowed from “mansion” but meaning something different: a multi-unit residential building, typically reinforced concrete or steel-frame, where each unit is owned individually. Studio and one-bedroom units aimed at singles are called tanshin-yō (単身用); larger two- to four-bedroom units aimed at families are famirī-taipu (ファミリータイプ). When you browse chūko manshon (中古マンション, “used condos”), you are looking at resold units in these buildings — not rentals, and not new-from-developer units. Most Japanese condos are held as sectional freehold (区分所有), with title to the unit plus a share of the land and common elements.
Monthly fees: management and repair reserves
Japanese condo ownership carries two recurring costs on top of the purchase price and mortgage. The kanri-hi (管理費, management fee) covers cleaning, lighting, elevator servicing, and on-site building staff where present. The shūzen-tsumitate-kin(修繕積立金, repair-reserve fund) is a sinking fund for major structural and mechanical renovations — roof, façade, pipes, elevators — that the building association (kanri kumiai) plans out over a 30- to 50-year cycle. Together these typically run from ¥10,000 to ¥40,000 per month for a family-size unit, more in luxury buildings. Listings on Nipponhomes show both fees where the source portal provides them, so you can compare total carrying costs, not just asking price.
The 2000 building-code milestone
Japanese buyers pay close attention to the year a condo building was completed. The current seismic standard, the shin-taishin code, was revised in 1981 and overhauled again in 2000 with much stronger performance requirements. Post-2000 buildings command a meaningful premium because they survive major earthquakes far better, qualify for cheaper earthquake insurance, and are easier to finance. Older buildings — especially pre-1981 ones — are cheaper upfront but may need seismic retrofit evaluation, and some Japanese banks cap loan terms on them. If you plan to finance, treat the building’s completion year as a hard filter before you start comparing units.
Buying a Japanese condo as a foreigner
Foreigners can buy and own a Japanese condominium outright — no residency, visa, or citizenship required, and the unit is registered at the Legal Affairs Bureau the same way it is for a Japanese national. The process is well-defined: an offer, a bilingual sales contract, payment through a designated bank account, and registration handled by a judicial scrivener (shiho shoshi). The practical hurdles for overseas buyers are language, distance, and financing: Japanese banks rarely lend to non-residents, so most foreign buyers pay cash or finance the purchase in their home country. Building associations also vote on major renovations, and remote owners usually participate by proxy.
Nipponhomes consolidates resold-condo listings from Japan’s major real-estate portals into one English-language inventory, so you can compare units across Tokyo, Osaka, and other cities without juggling a dozen Japanese sites. Our FAQ walks through the buying process, taxes, and ongoing ownership costs in detail, and our pricing page explains how we help from first viewing to registered title.