LIFULL HOME'S Japan Home Prices by City and Building Age

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What it does: Name a Japanese city and get what homes cost to buy there on LIFULL HOME'S — the site's own published average, not a re-derivation of it.

You enter: a city, written the way the site writes it — tokyo/shibuya-city (渋谷区), osaka/kita-ku-osakashi (大阪市北区) — or the whole list page address pasted out of your browser.

You get: LIFULL's own average price for a 70 m² used condo and its price per m², the same average for seven neighbouring cities, the same average split into building-age bands (how much less a 20-year-old building asks), how many homes are listed and how many are new, and the typical asking price and range from the listings read on the first page.

Price: $0.02 per city and home type. +$0.002 per row if you also want the list. No results = no charge.

Example: enter tokyo/shibuya-city → LIFULL's own average ¥144,420,000 for a 70 m² condo (¥2,063,143 per m²) · buildings over 20 years old ask 61.8% less than 1–3 year ones · 868 homes listed, 106 of them new · asking prices on the first page ran ¥28,500,000 to ¥379,900,000, middle ¥150,000,000 across the 41 read (real run, 2026-09-09)

Unofficial — not affiliated with LIFULL HOME'S. Reads public pages only.

Pricing — $0.02 per city

Event	Price	When
City price summary	$0.02	Per city and home type analyzed
Individual listing	$0.002	Only if you turn on Also return each listing as a row

A default run (1 city, used condos, summary only) costs $0.02, makes one read of the site and takes about 2 seconds. You pay per city; there is no monthly fee. A city that returns zero listings is never charged, and neither is a city path the site has no page for.

Three cities is three charges, not one — every city and home type pair is its own $0.02. A run is capped at 5 cities, so it cannot reach the platform's $3.00 Maximum cost per run.

Input

Field	Example	Notes
areas	["tokyo/shibuya-city"]	The site's own prefecture/city path, or a whole list page address pasted out of your browser. Up to 5 per run. $0.02 each
propertyType	"used_condo"	used_condo, used_house or land. One per run. Condos are averaged over 70 m² of living space, houses over 100 m² of building, and land has no published average at all
sortBy	"address"	Which listings the yen figures are measured on: address (neutral), price_low, price_high, newest, area_large, or price_per_tsubo_low on land pages. Echoed back as sortUsed
pagesPerArea	1	1 or 2. One page is about 30–49 listings. Cities × pages may not exceed 5
includeIndividualListings	false	Turn on to also get every listing that was read, one row each (+$0.002 per row)
convertToUsd	true	Adds US dollar figures at today's rate. A failed lookup never fails the run

The average is LIFULL's, the median is ours

Two different numbers sit in every row, and they are made in two different ways:

• siteBenchmarkPriceJpy is the figure LIFULL publishes themselves on the page: their own aggregate of the past three months of listings, normalised to a 70 m² condo (100 m² of building for a house), refreshed once a month. siteBenchmarkUpdatedOn carries the date of that refresh — 2026-09-01 in the example below — so you always know how fresh it is. The same figure comes back for seven neighbouring cities in nearbyAreas and for each building-age band in byBuildingAge. No amount of listing-reading reproduces these; they are LIFULL's arithmetic, republished with the date attached.
• priceJpy and pricePerSqmJpy are measured here, from the listings actually on the page that was read — sampledListings says how many. priceJpyBasis is sample unless the pages read held every listing the site counted, in which case it is exact.

benchmarkVsSampleGapPct is the distance between the two (+16.4% in the example). A gap is normal and informative rather than an error: the site's average is a fixed 70 m² across three months, while the sample is whatever sizes are on the page today (medianAreaSqm 59.12 m² there). A gap that suddenly triples is the interesting signal.

Building-age bands

Six bands always render on the page: 1–3, 3–5, 5–10, 10–15, 15–20 years and 20+. A band with too little behind it renders as a dash, not a zero — measured 2026-09-08, Shibuya used houses had three empty bands including the newest one. Empty bands are left out of byBuildingAge rather than reported as ¥0, buildingAgeBaseBand names the band the percentages are measured against, and oldestBandDiscountPct is empty whenever the site left the newest or the oldest band blank.

Output example (type: "area_price_summary")

Measured on 2026-09-09 (real run, {"areas": ["tokyo/shibuya-city"], "propertyType": "used_condo", "sortBy": "address", "pagesPerArea": 1, "includeIndividualListings": false, "convertToUsd": false}). The whole row, nothing shortened.

{
  "type": "area_price_summary",
  "area": "tokyo/shibuya-city",
  "areaPath": "tokyo/shibuya-city",
  "areaLabel": "渋谷区",
  "cityCode": "13113",
  "propertyType": "used_condo",
  "areaStatus": "ok",
  "sortUsed": "addr",
  "pagesRead": 1,
  "totalListingsFound": 868,
  "totalListingsFoundBasis": "agency_postings",
  "newListings": 106,
  "newListingShare": 0.1221,
  "siteBenchmarkPriceJpy": 144420000,
  "siteBenchmarkPerSqmJpy": 2063143,
  "siteBenchmarkBasisSqm": 70,
  "siteBenchmarkUpdatedOn": "2026-09-01",
  "siteBenchmarkNote": "LIFULL HOME'S publishes this average itself. It is their own aggregate over the past three months of listings on the site, refreshed once a month (see siteBenchmarkUpdatedOn), and it is a guide rather than a valuation of any one home.",
  "nearbyAreas": [
    {
      "areaLabel": "港区",
      "areaPath": "tokyo/minato-city",
      "priceJpy": 179850000,
      "perSqmJpy": 2569286,
      "vsThisAreaPct": 24.5
    },
    {
      "areaLabel": "新宿区",
      "areaPath": "tokyo/shinjuku-city",
      "priceJpy": 102330000,
      "perSqmJpy": 1461857,
      "vsThisAreaPct": -29.1
    },
    {
      "areaLabel": "品川区",
      "areaPath": "tokyo/shinagawa-city",
      "priceJpy": 110640000,
      "perSqmJpy": 1580571,
      "vsThisAreaPct": -23.4
    },
    {
      "areaLabel": "目黒区",
      "areaPath": "tokyo/meguro-city",
      "priceJpy": 90890000,
      "perSqmJpy": 1298429,
      "vsThisAreaPct": -37.1
    },
    {
      "areaLabel": "世田谷区",
      "areaPath": "tokyo/setagaya-city",
      "priceJpy": 77930000,
      "perSqmJpy": 1113286,
      "vsThisAreaPct": -46.0
    },
    {
      "areaLabel": "中野区",
      "areaPath": "tokyo/nakano-city",
      "priceJpy": 87760000,
      "perSqmJpy": 1253714,
      "vsThisAreaPct": -39.2
    },
    {
      "areaLabel": "杉並区",
      "areaPath": "tokyo/suginami-city",
      "priceJpy": 66920000,
      "perSqmJpy": 956000,
      "vsThisAreaPct": -53.7
    }
  ],
  "byBuildingAge": [
    {
      "ageBand": "1〜3年以内",
      "avgPriceJpy": 276070000,
      "perSqmJpy": 3943857,
      "vsNewestPct": 0.0
    },
    {
      "ageBand": "3〜5年以内",
      "avgPriceJpy": 248300000,
      "perSqmJpy": 3547143,
      "vsNewestPct": -10.1
    },
    {
      "ageBand": "5〜10年以内",
      "avgPriceJpy": 172890000,
      "perSqmJpy": 2469857,
      "vsNewestPct": -37.4
    },
    {
      "ageBand": "10〜15年以内",
      "avgPriceJpy": 163970000,
      "perSqmJpy": 2342429,
      "vsNewestPct": -40.6
    },
    {
      "ageBand": "15〜20年以内",
      "avgPriceJpy": 149370000,
      "perSqmJpy": 2133857,
      "vsNewestPct": -45.9
    },
    {
      "ageBand": "20年以上",
      "avgPriceJpy": 105350000,
      "perSqmJpy": 1505000,
      "vsNewestPct": -61.8
    }
  ],
  "buildingAgeBaseBand": "1〜3年以内",
  "oldestBandDiscountPct": -61.8,
  "sampledListings": 41,
  "priceJpy": {
    "min": 28500000,
    "p25": 99800000,
    "median": 150000000,
    "p75": 215000000,
    "max": 379900000,
    "average": 161727805
  },
  "priceJpyBasis": "sample",
  "pricedListings": 41,
  "priceUsd": null,
  "exchangeRateJpyUsd": null,
  "pricePerSqmJpy": {
    "min": 1150325,
    "p25": 1934802,
    "median": 2400662,
    "p75": 3052551,
    "max": 3631584,
    "average": 2418251
  },
  "sampleAreaBasis": "exclusive floor area",
  "medianAreaSqm": 59.12,
  "medianBuildingAgeYears": 15,
  "medianUnitsInBuilding": 29,
  "medianWalkMinutes": 4,
  "layoutMix": [
    {
      "layout": "2LDK",
      "count": 20
    },
    {
      "layout": "1LDK",
      "count": 7
    },
    {
      "layout": "3LDK",
      "count": 5
    },
    {
      "layout": "2SLDK",
      "count": 3
    },
    {
      "layout": "2DK",
      "count": 2
    },
    {
      "layout": "1SLDK",
      "count": 2
    },
    {
      "layout": "ワンルーム",
      "count": 1
    },
    {
      "layout": "1K",
      "count": 1
    }
  ],
  "duplicateListingSharePct": 2.4,
  "benchmarkVsSampleGapPct": 16.4,
  "hint": null,
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.homes.co.jp/mansion/chuko/tokyo/shibuya-city/list/?cond%5Bsortby%5D=addr",
  "checkedAt": "2026-09-09T01:39:53.046985+00:00"
}

With Also return each listing as a row on, each listing that was read is one extra row:

{
  "type": "listing",
  "area": "tokyo/shibuya-city",
  "areaPath": "tokyo/shibuya-city",
  "propertyType": "used_condo",
  "buildingName": "グランスイート神宮前",
  "listingUrl": "https://www.homes.co.jp/mansion/b-1421770025495/",
  "priceJpy": 128000000,
  "areaSqm": 46.53,
  "areaBasis": "exclusive floor area",
  "pricePerSqmJpy": 2750913,
  "layout": "1LDK",
  "floor": 10,
  "builtYearMonth": "2005年02月",
  "buildingAgeYears": 22,
  "unitsInBuilding": 42,
  "structure": "RC(鉄筋コンクリート) / 12階建",
  "station": "JR山手線 原宿駅 徒歩7分",
  "walkMinutes": 7,
  "addressLine": "東京都渋谷区神宮前1丁目1-5"
}

Example values (shape only — numbers are illustrative).

What this Actor does not do

• No agency contact details. No agency name, no phone number, no property-information manager's name. Every rival tool on this site returns them; this one is built for research, not for sales leads.
• No photos. Image addresses are never returned.
• No rentals. This is the buy side (/mansion/chuko/, /kodate/chuko/, /tochi/). Rents are a different product.
• No sold prices. These are asking prices for homes currently listed, not what anything actually sold for.
• No valuation of your home. LIFULL's own footnote says the average is a guide and that floor, layout and walking distance move a real price away from it; siteBenchmarkNote carries that in every row.
• No more than 5 reads of the site per run. See below.

Notes on the data

• What "868 listings" counts. The site counts agency postings, not homes: one apartment listed by three agencies is three. totalListingsFoundBasis says agency_postings on every row, and duplicateListingSharePct measures how much of the sample read is the same home twice (2.4% in the example).
• What "new" counts. newListings comes from the site's own new-listings banner and nothing else. Every listing row on the page carries a CSS class called new, which is decoration, not a flag — reading it would report 41 of 41 as new.
• The listing count is cross-checked three ways. The page publishes it in a totalNum span, a hidden quantity field and its analytics data. All three are read, and a disagreement fails the run instead of picking a winner.
• The order is always chosen. The site's own default puts paid placements first. An order is sent on every read and echoed as sortUsed, so the yen figures are never measured on an advertising order by accident.
• Page size is not a fixed listing count. A page is 30 building groups while the count is per posting, so one condo page holds about 31–49 listings. sampledListings is the honest number of listings the yen figures were measured on.
• Five reads per run, and that is permanent. The site's protection turns an address away after six reads, whatever the spacing between them (measured at 2 seconds and at 12 seconds, from two different networks, 2026-09-08). This Actor stops at five, refuses an input that would need more, and if it is turned away anyway it stops and says so in plain words rather than reporting an empty result. The block clears on its own in about ten minutes, so a run that fails is worth repeating a few minutes later.
• Land is different. Land pages carry no published average and no new-listings banner at all — siteBenchmark* and newListings come back empty, and the yen figures are measured on land area. That is a normal land page, not a failure.
• Transport. Plain server-rendered pages, UTF-8, gzip, no login and no cookie needed. About 600 KB per page. 2 seconds between reads; the site's robots.txt asks for no delay and does not bar these pages.

If something goes wrong

• Wrong number or a failed run? Open a ticket on the Issues tab. I read every one and reply within 2 business days (Japan time).
• You never get a fake "empty" result. If the site can't be read, the run fails and says so.
• No results = no charge. You only pay for results you actually get.
• Checked every week. An automatic test runs this tool weekly; if the site changes, I fix it.
• Public pages only. No login, no personal data, and it goes easy on the site.

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Disclaimer

Unofficial, independent tool — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by LIFULL HOME'S. Product names and logos belong to their owners and only say where the data comes from. Data is read from public pages, for market research; check before you act on it.