SERVICES

Think before you sell. Check before you rent.

We don't push properties—we prepare the material for your decision. Real estate consulting in Kohinata, Bunkyo, Tokyo.

DIFFERENCE

What makes us different from an ordinary real estate agency?

The job of a typical real estate company is to broker properties—so the conversation starts with a property. Our work starts one step before that: should that property really be sold? Bought? Should you make a move at all?

Yotsuba Real Estate is a consulting-style real estate company whose representative is a Licensed Real Estate Transaction Specialist and former China General Bureau Chief of the Mainichi Shimbun (34 years as a journalist). A journalist's job is to gather facts, verify them, and convey them in plain language. We brought that method into real estate.

Before any brokerage, we deliver the material—the one who decides is you.

A typical real estate company

Where the conversation starts: With a property (inventory)
Shape of the proposal: “How about this property?”
The goal: Closing the deal
Information: Mostly the good side

Yotsuba Real Estate's consulting

Where the conversation starts: With your situation
Shape of the proposal: Options + grounds, in writing
The goal: Conviction (not moving is an option, too)
Information: Verified facts, good and bad alike

Note: If “not moving (not selling, not buying)” is the best answer, that is exactly what we will tell you. Brokerage fees arise only when a deal closes; consultations are free.

4 FIELDS

Yotsuba's four consulting fields

Inheriting a property?

Inherited-Property Consulting

For a house or land inherited from your parents, we work backward from the three exits: managing, utilizing, or selling. Starting from the inheritance-registration deadline (mandatory since April 2024; three years in principle), we coordinate with tax accountants, judicial scriveners, and gyoseishoshi (administrative scriveners) to lay out the whole sequence on a single sheet—untangling a succession where feelings and finances intertwine, with facts.

→ The complete guide

Consultation to resolution

Opening a group home?

Group Home Opening Consulting

Opening a group home for people with disabilities (kyodo seikatsu enjo / shared-living support) means the property and the designation application move at the same time. Yotsuba Real Estate handles the property brokerage with the designation criteria (location, structure, floor area, fire safety) in mind, while Yotsuba Gyoseishoshi Office—since preparing and filing designation documents is a gyoseishoshi's exclusive practice—takes on that work under a separate engagement.

→ The complete guide

Looking for a property?

Working-Backward Proposals for Business & Investment Use

Minpaku, restaurants, company setups, company housing, and income properties fail unless you work backward from the purpose of the business. Checking the licensing requirements for each industry (fire safety, zoning, and more) before signing is the golden rule. Yotsuba Real Estate handles the property search, while designation applications and licensing are handled by our partner gyoseishoshi (administrative scrivener) under a separate engagement—together proposing properties with the full view from opening to operation.

→ Investment & business use

Company housing & corporate leases

Living in Japan?

Housing Consulting for International Residents

We walk with you through screening, guarantors, and the language barrier—in Japanese, English, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese. Beyond room hunting, we also help you gather and translate the documents you need. For residence-status matters we can coordinate with our group's gyoseishoshi office, so you don't have to run around separately for “housing” and “paperwork.”

→ Multilingual room hunting

HOW IT WORKS

How we proceed: Diagnosis → Options → Execution

No rushing. Consultations are free.

Diagnosis(free of charge)

Start with a single line via LINKA (our AI concierge) or LINE. We listen to your situation and sort out the issues.

Options presented

Based on verified facts, we hand you multiple options with their grounds, in writing. We won't rush you.

Execution

Only if you decide to proceed, our representative personally walks with you through brokerage, contract, and handover.

How fees work

Consultations and diagnoses are free — the first and every one thereafter. Consultations relating to a sale or lease we broker are covered by the brokerage commission. Costs arise at the execution stage (brokerage fees, etc., within the statutory limits). Estimates are set out in writing before we begin, and we never bill anything that is not in writing.

Working with our professional group

Real estate decisions involve legal matters and licensing. The Yotsuba group includes an adjoining gyoseishoshi office (disability-welfare service designation, residence status, inheritance paperwork, subsidy applications), which takes on those procedures under a separate engagement.

Yotsuba Real Estate Co., Ltd. and Yotsuba Gyoseishoshi Office accept engagements independently as separate business entities (no referral fees are exchanged).

It's fine to start with just one line: “What should I do with this?”

Our representative replies to you personally, and if a property matches your needs, we will introduce it via LINE.

Chat on LINE (free)Contact Call 03-6161-9428

LINE connects you directly to our representative, Joji Uramatsu. Messages are accepted 24/7 and answered in order.

5 min walk from Myogadani Sta. (Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line)｜10:00–18:00 (Closed Tue & Wed)