Tokyo real estate agency company with licence and bank accounts

Asking price	¥4,000,000 (plus a deposit to the real estate association, and plus retained earnings if these are kept rather than zeroed out)
Annual revenue	¥50,000,000 to ¥75,000,000
Operating profit	¥5,000,000 to ¥10,000,000
Price vs profit	About 0.4 to 0.8 times operating profit (profit shown as a band). Within the usual 2 to 5 times for small Japanese businesses.
Location	Tokyo (23 wards), Kanto/Koshinetsu region
Industry	Real estate brokerage, leasing and share house business
Employees	5 or fewer
Transfer type	share (譲渡対象会社)

What is for sale

This is a company that has operated as a licensed real estate brokerage in Tokyo, handling sales brokerage, leasing and share house business. The company holds a real estate transaction (takken) licence for Tokyo and has megabank and online bank accounts. The owner is selling because health issues mean they need to reduce their workload.

Because this is a share sale, the buyer takes over the existing company itself, including its real estate brokerage licence, bank accounts and contracts, rather than starting a new entity.

What is included

Real estate transaction (takken) licence for Tokyo
Megabank and online bank accounts
Relationships with outsourcing partners who prepare contracts at discounted rates
Know-how
SNS/EC account (transfer negotiable, not guaranteed)

Strengths (as the seller states them)

Holds a real estate brokerage licence for Tokyo that can be taken over
Has established accounts with both a megabank and an online bank
Has relationships with outsourced contract-preparation providers at favourable rates
No past legal violations, business improvement orders or major tax issues reported

Wrinkles a careful buyer would ask about

The designated full-time licensed real estate transaction specialist (sengyo takken-shi) will not transfer with the business, so the buyer must arrange their own
Most customer acquisition will need to start from zero as the company website has been cancelled
Buyer must handle office relocation and the related registration themselves after purchase, and rent of ¥120,000 per month (pro-rated daily) will apply until relocation registration is complete
A deposit to the real estate association is required in addition to the purchase price, though this becomes a company asset over time
The stated price assumes retained earnings are reduced to zero; if retained earnings are kept, the price increases accordingly
Detailed financials such as net assets, cash balance, interest-bearing debt and total assets are not disclosed publicly and require member registration to view

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. The stated price of 4,000,000 yen assumes retained earnings are zeroed out, with retained earnings added on top if kept, and the buyer must also pay a separate deposit to the real estate association; rent of 120,000 yen per month applies until the buyer completes office relocation and registration; interest-bearing debt levels are not disclosed in the public listing.

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

Summary of a public listing as at 2026-10-23. Seller-reported figures, not verified. Listings sell fast, the original may already be gone. Nothing here is financial or visa advice. Free weekly email: Japan Deal Flow.