China Overseas Chinese News, January 27, according to the "New Overseas Chinese News in Japan", in Japan, overseas Chinese who are planning to buy or have already purchased a house will have this feeling: take a break and go to see the house across most of the city. Convenience.
In fact, for real estate companies or landlords, it is more troublesome to adjust the time and receive visitors.
Therefore, overseas Chinese often ask: Why is there no VR viewing in Japan?
Stimulated by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Japan's real estate industry has also seized the opportunity.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan issued a notice that starting from April 2021, when real estate transactions in Japan, it is allowed to conduct important explanations including the rights of buyers and the advantages and disadvantages of real estate through Internet connection.
Overseas Chinese who have experience in buying houses in Japan have all experienced that before real estate transactions, real estate agencies often spend several hours, explaining the pros and cons of the property to buyers in every detail.
For example, there is a shrine one kilometer away from the property, and the shrine will hold certain events on a certain month and a certain day each year, which generates noise.
Such details must also be made known to buyers.
In real estate transactions, real estate intermediaries must face-to-face explanations of the pros and cons of the house owner’s rights and water seepage.
This has become an "iron rule".
On January 25th, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan held a meeting to convene people of insight in the real estate-related industry to discuss whether to promote online real estate transactions.
Participants had a lively discussion on more than 2,300 detailed issues related to the description of important real estate matters through online videos, and reached a basic consensus.
Among the companies that have tried online real estate transactions, some real estate companies said that due to the impact of the new crown epidemic, about 30% of guests said that they hope to conduct house viewings and transactions online.
Usually, it takes about 3 hours to explain an important matter in real estate.
Now, these important matters have been moved online, which greatly facilitates those parents with children.
There are also real estate companies that they use computer synthesis technology to restore the internal situation of the property, and use video to reproduce the scene from the station to the location of the property.
At present, there have also been cases where the willingness to buy a house was reached entirely through online communication.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan stated that in the future, it will formulate work manuals for real estate practitioners in Japan to help them adapt to the online process, and at the same time will accelerate the electronic process of real estate sales contracts.
It will also be more convenient for overseas Chinese in Japan to buy houses.
(Wang Yanan)