Most English-language writing about Fukuoka sells the lifestyle and skips the numbers. This report does the opposite. It's the set of figures and rules you'd want in front of you before spending five to eight figures in a currency you don't earn in.

Inside the 24 pages:

• What the market actually did — land prices, new-build and resale prices, and rents, each with its source and date attached, including the figures that undercut the optimistic story

• Why the demand is there — the tech employment base, the Startup City programme, the redevelopment pipeline, and the specific dates on which parts of that pipeline stop

• Whether you can finance it — the section most guides omit, covering why the main long-fixed mortgage is closed to most foreign workers, what's actually available without permanent residence, and a buy-versus-rent comparison where residence status more than doubles the monthly payment on an identical property

• A ward-by-ward read framed as commutes and price trajectories, a plain account of what could go wrong, and a decision sequence in the order that actually saves you time

Written by someone based in Kyushu, sitting Japan's real estate broker exam in 2026. This is general information, not investment, legal, or tax advice — it's meant to help you work with a licensed agent from a position of knowledge. Instant PDF download.