Designing our house
26 May 2025 | #housing | #money | #japanWe recently wrapped up the design of our house. I will share how it went in this post.
Read moreWe recently wrapped up the design of our house. I will share how it went in this post.
Read moreIchijo, as most major house makers, offer a friend referral system.
Read moreBack in January 2023 I wrote a post on the renting vs buying decision in Tokyo concluding that the two options have comparable financial outcomes (assuming the renter invests the additional money into a diversified portfolio). Yet we decided to build our house. In this post I’ll share the reasons that contributed to this decision.
Read moreWe are building a house in Tokyo with Ichijo 一条工務店. In a previous post I covered the costs associated with buying the land, and in this post I’ll talk about the cost of our house built by Ichijo. There will be additional fees (e.g. garden, registration, etc.) that I will write about in a separate post once we move in. This post is only about the money we pay to Ichijo for the building itself.
Read moreWe are building a house in Tokyo with Ichijo 一条工務店. In previous apartments I always had a limited smart home setup, so now that we got to design the whole house, I wanted to consider every available options and add them if they make sense. I’ll review what we ended up adding to our design in this post.
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