Rent or Buy a Home in Tokyo or Chiba

Ask a licensed bilingual brokerage to search long-term apartments and houses in Tokyo or Chiba. Add your budget, visa, pets, layout and furnished-home needs.

What the property finder does

Most foreign renters in Japan start on public portals, then lose weeks to buildings that quietly decline overseas applicants. The property finder skips that. You answer a short form — about twenty seconds — describing your budget, preferred areas, household size, visa status and whether you are already in Japan. Affarah then searches the current agent market on your behalf, including listings that never reach the public portals, and filters for owners who actually accept foreign residents.

What you need to provide

• Target monthly rent and the move-in window you are working towards.
• Preferred wards, lines or a commute anchor such as an office or campus.
• Household size and whether pets, guarantors or parking are involved.
• Your residence status, employer or school, and whether you are applying from overseas.

What you get back

A shortlist of properties matched to your profile, each checked for foreigner acceptance before it reaches you, with the full move-in cost written out in English. Affarah is a licensed Japanese real estate brokerage — Chiba Governor (1) No. 18574, representative Ibuki Yoshimine — so the same team that sends the shortlist can negotiate terms, arrange a guarantor company and sit with you at contract signing.

Applying from outside Japan

You do not need to be in the country to start. Remote applications are routine for us: we run viewings by video, handle the paperwork bilingually, and coordinate the timing so the lease begins near your arrival date rather than burning rent while you are still abroad. If you would rather sanity-check the numbers first, the upfront cost calculator estimates your total move-in budget, and the eligibility quiz shows which housing routes you qualify for.