[Assessed 82%] Detached house in Fujisawa, Kanagawa — 6 min from Chogo Sta.

This is a flagpole lot, and the pole (access strip) accounts for about 40 percent of the site. Of the 201.83 sqm of land in the listing, roughly 81.8 sqm is the pole. Our practice is to exclude the pole from the assessment, so we calculate on about 120 sqm of usable land. Using the full 201.83 sqm would give an assessed ratio of 105.7 percent; excluding the pole gives 82.0 percent. The gap is large, so how you view the pole changes the picture considerably.

We derived the pole's area by measuring the listing's site plan pixel by pixel. Two checks support it: the pole width read off the drawing matches the stated frontage of 2.18 metres plus 0.75 metres, and other units in the same development have land areas of about 120 sqm. The pole runs about 25.7 metres and includes tandem parking for two cars.

The property is in Takakura, Fujisawa, a 6-minute walk from Chogo Station on the Odakyu Enoshima Line. Zoning is neighbourhood commercial with 80 percent building coverage and 200 percent floor area ratio, giving more building capacity than the low-rise residential areas nearby. An Odakyu OX supermarket is a minute from the station and a drugstore two minutes, so daily shopping is concentrated around the station.

The house was completed in July 2026: a two-storey wooden 4LDK with 96.05 sqm of floor area. It is unit 4 of a four-unit development, sold as a completed house with no tie-in building contract. The floor area excludes any built-in garage — the 48.85 sqm ground floor and 47.20 sqm first floor in the plan add up to exactly 96.05 sqm. It is currently vacant, and the gross yield and expected rent are not disclosed in the listing.

The assessment breaks down into 15.60 million yen of land (130,000 yen per sqm under the 2026 roadside land price, times 120 sqm of usable land) and 21.13 million yen of building, totalling 36.73 million yen. Against the 44.8 million yen asking price that is an assessed ratio of 82.0 percent. At zero years old the building carries its full assessed value, so it accounts for nearly 60 percent of the total. Roadside land prices in Takakura have risen 5,000 yen a year: 120,000 in 2024, 125,000 in 2025 and 130,000 in 2026.

A few things to check. The listing gives the location only as "Takakura" without a chome or lot number, so we took the roadside land price from the band of local streets falling within the 6-minute (about 480 metre) radius of Chogo Station, choosing the conservative 130,000 yen per sqm. The lowest value we could confirm inside that radius, 125,000 yen, still gives 80.6 percent, and the upper 140,000 yen gives 84.7 percent, so neither falls below 80 percent.

Second, the listing's road access field says only "one side" and gives neither the direction nor the width of the frontage road. We publish properties with a blank access field while flagging it, but six properties have been passed over for that same reason in the past. The site plan shows frontages of 2.18 metres and 0.75 metres onto a road designated under Article 42-1-1 of the Building Standards Act to the south, with an Article 42-2 road running alongside the east of the pole.

Finally, a high-voltage transmission tower stands immediately north to east of the site and features prominently in two of the listing's exterior photographs. We have not treated it as grounds for exclusion, but it can affect letting and any future sale, so we suggest checking it on site.