Frontiers of Real Estate Science in Japan

Part 1. Real Estate and the Legal System.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Real Estate and the Legal System Japan.- Chapter 2. Legal issues of land plots with unknown owners.- Chapter 3. The efficiency of the titling system: Perspectives of Economics.- Chapter 4. Land plots with unknown owners: Causes and legal measures - The necessity for a thorough reduction of transaction costs.- Chapter 5. Realities and Challenges of Land Issues in the Era of Depopulation.- Chapter 6. The Negative Effect Factors of the Land Acquisition System for Profit-Oriented Enterprises in order to Promote Economic Growth.- Chapter 7. Empirical analysis on the system revisions of judicial real estate auctions - Comparison with general real estate trading.- Part 2. Real estate tax system and real estate market in Japan.- Chapter 8. Introduction: Real estate tax system and real estate market in Japan.- Chapter 9. Professional Practices in Fixed Assets Valuation and Assessor Education in North America  Suggestions for Japan.- Chapter 10. The Optimal Reform about Property Tax.- Chapter 11. Requirements for the application of exemption from real estate acquisition tax due to purpose of use  Based on the acquisition of land usage for a school site by an Incorporated Educational Institution.- Chapter 12. Dual agency, commission levels, and the e ect on sale price in residential real estate market: a questionnaire survey on real estate brokers in Japan.- Chapter 13. A study on the relation between residential land value and the distance to the center of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area (1970-2016).- Chapter 14. Study on Premium Rent of Refurbished Apartments Based on Bayesian Modelling Using Stated Preference Data of the Tenants.- Chapter 15. Feasibility Evaluation for Condominium Reconstruction by Means of the Application of Discriminant Analysis on Real Estate Data.- Chapter 16. Factor Analysis of Rent Using Space Syntax Measures. - Comparative Analysis by Building Usearound Shibuya

Yasushi Asami, The University of Tokyo

Yoshiro Higano, Professor Emeritus, University of Tsukuba
Hideo Fukui, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

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