事故物件

A home whose history carries a fact most buyers or tenants would want to know before moving in, almost always a past death on the premises. It is a market term, not a statutory one: no Japanese law defines 事故物件, and none of it appears on the registration record. What it points at legally is a disclosure duty. Article 47 of the Real Estate Brokerage Act bars a licensed agent from intentionally withholding, or misstating, a matter that would materially affect the other party's decision to transact[1], and since October 2021 the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has published a guideline setting out when a past death is such a matter[2]. That guideline covers residential property only, and reaches the unit itself plus the shared entrance, corridor, elevator, and stairs a resident would use day to day[2].