The answer in real estate
is on the ground.
I grew up in Beijing and started my business in Tokyo.
TAISEI began in 2004 as a restaurant business. Searching for premises, negotiating with landlords, visiting construction sites, facing the rent and the takings day after day: as I experienced each of these tasks, I gradually came to understand just how deep the work of real estate is.
In real estate, there are things that drawings, figures and prices alone cannot tell you.
Stand on the spot, see the building with your own eyes, walk around the neighbourhood. Put yourself in the position of the people who live and work there. Only then do certain things come into view.
Changes in the neighbourhood, the condition of the building, how easy it is to use, its surroundings, and day-to-day management. I believe it is the accumulation of each of these, over a long time, that creates the value of real estate.
From 2006 we began working in earnest on real estate services for clients overseas. Since then we have expanded into development, sales and leasing brokerage, and leasing and building management, bringing us to where we are today.
Working with clients who buy Japanese property from abroad, we have come to be consulted not only about the properties themselves, but on a wide range of matters: contracts, taxation, financing, management, repairs, and an eventual sale.
With differences in language, systems and business customs, many clients understandably feel uneasy.
That is why we place great importance on explaining things as clearly as we can, organising the information our clients need properly, and being honest not only about the good points but also about the risks and the things to watch out for.
Nor do we consider our work finished when the transaction closes; we continue to support our clients for years afterwards. Holding to that approach, we have steadily broadened the scope of our business.
Real estate work does not end with a single transaction.
- Identifying good land.
- Drawing up a plan that is not overstretched.
- Verifying the quality of the building.
- Carrying out day-to-day management with care.
None of these may be anything special in itself. But I believe that carefully building up these ordinary things is what, in time, earns our clients’ trust and adds to the value of the property itself.
We are not aiming simply to make the company bigger.
Whatever changes in the market or the wider environment, we want to keep facing each client sincerely, and to go on doing work that makes people glad they came to TAISEI.
And rather than a brief relationship, we want to be a company that people trust for years, even decades.
To that end, we will continue to value the field, to check things with our own eyes and think them through, and to build up what is needed carefully, one step at a time.
Work worthy of the name TAISEI, one task at a time.
Through real estate, we will continue to stand beside our clients’ valued assets and their future.
