With careful planning, you can develop a portfolio that consistently outpaces inflation and helps secure your financial future.I hope this helps.

We have literally thousands and thousands of jobs being created right now between different developments, new cash heavy businesses that will bring more investors, not to mention all the investors that have been flocking here ever since Covid.

The developers pushing agents to sell one of their townhouses as a STR really inflated the asset cost cause they were pricing it on a revenue structure, not asset.

He took the new development appreciation approach.  

@Dave FosterAre development rights “real property”?

A more realistic expectation is 24 hours which will ensure we can arrange any repairs or corrections with a team, handle it in person, etc. be curious how this plays out as I worked for local developer for a while and developed several properties in Alexandria (Specifically old town) and while the city is challenging like any city - they were mostly realistic.

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That’s less about the numbers and more about developing a niche and understanding your product.

Zoning Ordinance ExceptionsSome properties in the target zone don’t meet the minimum lot area or width size requirements under the zoning ordinance, yet houses exist on smaller-sized neighbor lots.How could these properties get approval for development?

That gets worse as you get farther out of the cityTLDR: values depreciate, inflation has gone basically nowhere in Japan for a long time, the supply of housing is pretty good compared to demand (unlike the US) and that's because of flexibility with rezoning and development, taxes on rental income are high.