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Housing prices have been more or less flat in Tokyo for 30 years.

https://marketurbanismreport.com/tokyos-affordable-housing-s...

> According to the website RealEstate.co.jp, average housing prices throughout Greater Tokyo have actually decreased since 2006. In 2014, the average price of second-hand condos was 27,890,000 yen, or about $232,914. This is above the U.S. median of $187,000, but is a steal when considering that average housing prices in many destination U.S. cities are triple or quadruple this amount.




Again, it only looks like a steal if you look at unit costs and not per square feet/meter costs. This puts Tokyo on par with Seattle. See https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/compare_cities.js...


It's easy to keep housing prices from rising when a country has a low birth rate and minimal immigration.


Tokyo’s population has grown in every census since 1955.

http://www.newgeography.com/content/002923-the-evolving-urba...


I heard many many commuters who work in Tokyo actually live pretty far away, commuting via the bullet trains. So the housing market in Tokyo is not in tremendous demand.


Good public transportation certainly helps there, which most of the US doesn't have.




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