Ken Saishoji, a Tokyo real-estate agent, used to answer questions from potential apartment buyers about the proximity to train stations and prices, but that changed after the March disasters. “The question almost 100 percent of the customers ask first these days is how strong ...

Japanese companies may rethink their century-long trend of concentrating resources in Tokyo after the nation’s record earthquake crimped power supply to the capital and radiation concern spurred some residents to flee. Production hubs in Japan should be shifted to the western part of the ...

Japan Post Holdings Co., with $30 billion’ worth of properties across the nation, will redevelop sites in central Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya as it turns to real estate as a new source of profit, a company official said. The former state-run mail service that ...

Mitsubishi Estate Co., Japan’s largest developer by value, may buy property managers to more than double assets under management to ¥4 trillion ($40 billion) within six years as Tokyo commercial rents slow. Mitsubishi Estate, the main landlord in Tokyo’s priciest business district, is in ...

Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank AG, and other investment banks are on track to sell a record amount of bonds tied to real estate in Japan, where rising property prices have created a safe haven from the subprime concerns afflicting other markets. Sales of commercial ...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will add to its ¥2 trillion in Japanese properties acquired since 1998, betting real estate is short of its peak after a two-year rally. Goldman, Wall Street’s most profitable securities firm, plans to invest about ¥200 billion this year in ...

The U.S. subprime crisis will have a limited impact on Japan’s property market rally, which is likely to shrug off the increased borrowing costs stemming from a global drying up of credit, according to investors and analysts. Land price growth here quickened last year ...