Japanese Real Estate Glossary
Prices, Taxes & Fees

基準地価

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Prefectural benchmark price

A parallel land-price survey run by prefectures, published every September with a July 1 valuation date. It covers about 21,000 points, including areas the national survey misses, so together the two surveys give a twice-yearly official read on land values.

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