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Where in Tokyo are you? There is definitely a culture of knock down and rebuild new, have you been to any of those house showroom streets yet?
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We are building in South Tokyo, Ota-ku, and that seems to be exactly what happened here, they knocked down a big older place and split the land in two. It's crazy, there are so many perfectly livable older houses around but nobody wants them.
We did visit a couple of those places outside of Tokyo, very bizarre, but good to evaluate all the different builders.
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Just thought I would drop in with something a bit different. Reading back through the conversations here made me really miss the UK and the thought of buying there...but oh well.
Currently in the process of designing and building my own place in Tokyo and it's a lot of fun but of course, stressful and time consuming. Buying a place/building here is completely different to the UK and it's interesting to see how it works on both sides.
Basically, we bought the land and the developer who sold it also build so we had the option to use them which we did. We have now decided and signed off on the floorplan and next meetings with architects will be to decide colours of floors/walls/external siding/roof etc.
Of course, much smaller than what we could get in the UK, but it sure feels good to own finally!