February 2010, Issue 7

2010.1.13

Interview

Concern over Double Dip Blocks Investment

Professor Kawaguchi stresses need for liquidity

The slump in the real estate market continues. While there is a general sentiment that the market is hitting bottom, the future is still opaque. What is needed for the Japanese real estate market to escape from the doldrums? Makoto Noda, General Manager of the Real Estate Consulting Division of Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking, sat down with Professor Yuichiro Kawaguchi of Waseda University to discuss the future of the slumping market.

Rents and Relocations

Chuo Ward

Companies start moving in the traditional Nihonbashi office district

News Digest

Keio acquires retail building facing Shinjuku Isetan from Grove International

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One-room condo investments are increasingly out of reach for Japan's salaried workers

Tokyu Land to construct 130-unit condominium at former embassy site

Ten rental housing properties in Tokyo exchanged between SPCs

Mitsubishi Corp acquires Y1bn Kobe Port Island site

Raysum acquires Ginza SOHO building from Dear Life

Mitsubishi logistics REIT, LaSalle Logiport REIT to securitize properties

Mitsubishi logistics REIT acquires facility in Katano City, Osaka

Heiwa Real Estate invests in Taisei Real Estate Asset Management

Chuo-Nittochi to construct student housing in Waseda, Shinjuku-ku

Nihon Jutaku Kaihatsu, Sumica acquire Shinjuku apartment building

Sotetsu Urban Creates, Yasuda partly acquire London office building

ACN acquires retail building on Harajuku Takeshita-dori Street

Nomura developing apartment building in Setagaya-ku

ABC Mart moving from Shibuya to Azabudai Hills

Sapporo Holdings to tap property sale proceeds for shareholder returns

Creal sells apartment building in Bunkyo-ku

Tokyo Metro to move into MSH Nihonbashi Hakozaki

Mitsui developing 300 unit apartment building in Okubo, Shinjuku-ku

B-Lot acquires office and retail building in Ebisu, Shibuya-ku

Nihon Jutaku Kaihatsu, Sumica acquire Shinjuku apartment building

Sapporo Holdings to tap property sale proceeds for shareholder returns

Tokyo Metro acquires building near Omote-Sando Intersection

Sotetsu Urban Creates, Yasuda partly acquire London office building

ACN acquires retail building on Harajuku Takeshita-dori Street

Nomura developing apartment building in Setagaya-ku

ABC Mart moving from Shibuya to Azabudai Hills

MOL Cruises moving, expanding to Toranomon Daibiru-East Building

Seibu Real Estate to construct 270,000 m2 mixed-use building

Tohama Holdings acquires building in Kaigan, Minato-ku

Ericsson Japan relocating office to Yokohama Symphostage

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Astemo to lease 2,000 tsubos in Tofrom Yaesu Tower

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