Tokyo real estate agency with licence, under 1 year old

What is for sale

This is a real estate brokerage company based in Tokyo's 23 wards, holding a real estate transaction business (takken) licence, set up less than a year ago mainly for sales and leasing brokerage of residential apartments, houses and investment properties, with some share house related business. The company has built its operating infrastructure and initial customer acquisition base but has not yet generated meaningful revenue. The seller is divesting because they want to concentrate resources on a different business and is selling the whole company, including its legal entity, licence and infrastructure, to a buyer wanting immediate entry into the real estate industry.

Because this is a share sale, the buyer takes over the company itself, including its real estate brokerage licence and guarantee association membership, rather than having to apply for these from scratch.

What is included

• Real estate transaction business (takken) licence
• Guarantee association membership and paid-in compensation deposit (弁済業務保証金分担金)
• Various business systems and site registrations already set up
• Company goodwill, know-how and website/app
• Optional handover of the designated full-time licensed real estate agent (専任宅建士), terms negotiable

Strengths (as the seller states them)

• Real estate licence and guarantee association membership already in place, giving ready-made operating infrastructure
• Seller states the company is clean, with no troubles or debts
• Initial customer acquisition base already established
• Licence transfer is possible anywhere within Tokyo

Wrinkles a careful buyer would ask about

• Office lease is not included in the transfer, buyer will need to arrange new premises
• Specific conditions, timing and feasibility of transferring the designated full-time agent (専任宅建士) still need to be confirmed with the seller
• Revenue is minimal (1 yen to 5 million yen) and there is no profit, this is essentially a pre-revenue shell with a licence
• Detailed financials such as cash balance, total assets, net assets and interest-bearing debt are not disclosed publicly and only visible to registered members
• Seller says they want a quick sale, so there may be limited room for extended due diligence

Paying for it

If you stay overseas. No Japanese bank will lend to a new company whose director lives abroad. The realistic stack is your own cash plus asking the owner to take part of the price over 2 to 3 years. That one question is in every Deal Pack.

If you move to Japan. On a visa that lets you run a business, Japan Finance Corporation lends up to ¥72M at about 1 to 2 percent for exactly this. Once you have a Japanese company, the government pays two-thirds of due diligence and registered-broker costs, up to about ¥8M (round 16 closes 6 Nov 2026). The company's existing bank relationship comes with it.

What this listing says. Nothing stated about debts, guarantees or payment terms, though the seller does state the company has no existing debts; the broker success fee itself is not detailed in this listing text.

Full rundown, with the catches: japandealflow.com/money