[Assessed 114.7%] Detached house in Kashiwa City, Chiba — 17 min from Kashiwa Sta.

We could not find a single photograph of this property. The Rakumachi listing has no photo gallery element at all; every image on the page is a site-wide UI icon or campaign banner, and there are no lazy-loading URLs. The photographs were never posted rather than failing to load. We checked other sites without success. Suumo's used detached house listings for Toyoshiki, Kashiwa contain nothing matching the 6.98 million yen price, 72.81 square meters of land, 66.24 square meters of building or the 1977 build; Kenbiya returned nothing on either its investment property search or a keyword search; and athome returned an authentication page of about 8 kilobytes that could not be cross-checked. As a result, retaining walls, a frontage level difference of a meter or more, stepped access, and slope faces or sloping ground are all unverified. We are publishing it as a case where the listing simply never had photographs, on the grounds that the assessed ratio comfortably exceeds 80 percent.

A two-story wood-frame 3DK of 66.24 square meters, built in December 1977 and now 48 years old. The statutory useful life for wood-frame construction is 22 years, so the building is past its useful life and valued at zero. The concern that particularly remains is the possibility of terraced construction, given a small 72.81-square-meter site combined with a 1977 build. The listing text makes no mention of terraced or row housing, but without photographs we cannot confirm structural separation from the neighboring buildings. We previously judged a property in Ohara 7-chome, Omiya Ward, Saitama City not to be terraced on the basis of its listing photographs, only to learn later that it was and withdraw it; with no photographs at all, this property gives us even less to work with.

The private road burden field is blank in the listing, and there is no mention of setback, road dedication or sloping portions. We therefore made no deduction and used the listed 72.81 square meters (registry) as the effective site area. The site fronts a public road 7.50 meters wide on the northwest, which is on the wider side for a block street and makes it unlikely that the applicable band sits below the district mode. The land is held in fee simple, the land category is residential, and the site lies in an urbanization promotion area.

We worked from the fiscal 2026 road price map (sheet 14127). Because the listing publishes the parcel number as 687-11 Toyoshiki, we obtained coordinates for 687 Toyoshiki from the national address API (35.845966 N, 139.96402 E) and confirmed they lie only about 140 meters from Rakumachi's coordinates (35.84468420 N, 139.96426440 E), giving two sources in agreement. Toyoshiki in Kashiwa spans 23 sheets for fiscal 2026 (14082 to 14149), so we used the Tobu Noda Line, visible on the same sheets, as a calibration line. The line connects Kashiwa and Shin-Kashiwa stations and passes through roughly 139.9679 longitude at latitude 35.846. On sheet 14128 the railway sits at about x=225 points on the page, and at a scale of 1:2,500 (about 0.88 meters per point) the property works out to roughly 349 meters west of the railway, placing it west of the western edge of 14128 and toward the east of sheet 14127. The slope derived from the 68-point (60-meter) offset of the railway between sheets 14128 and 14139 matched the actual slope between the two stations, corroborating our assumptions about scale and orientation. For the representative figure we took the mode of block streets within the district: on the east side of sheet 14127, 110,000 yen appears on four segments, the most common, with one segment each at 105,000, 125,000 and 140,000 yen. We excluded 170,000 yen along the Mito Kaido and 150,000 yen on the prefectural-road equivalent as arterials. The three-year figures are 96,000 yen in 2024, 105,000 yen in 2025 and 110,000 yen in 2026, rendered from the same sheet at the same crop in all three years and matched street by street. The leasehold ratio symbol is D throughout the area, not E or lower.

The road price needed for the assessed ratio to reach 80 percent is 6.98 million yen times 0.8 divided by 72.81, or 76,693 yen. Even the lowest band observed in Toyoshiki, 105,000 yen, gives 109.5 percent, and 96,000 yen, recorded previously at another point in Toyoshiki, still gives 96.0 percent, so an error in identifying the sheet would not reverse the conclusion. The zoning is Category 1 mid-to-high-rise exclusively residential with 60 percent building coverage and a 200 percent floor area ratio, and the sale does not come with a building contract condition. The listing says nothing about cliff ordinances, non-rebuildable status, leasehold, setback, retaining walls, level differences, slopes or terraced construction, but please note that we have not been able to corroborate this without photographs.

The property is tenanted and sold as an owner change, under a three-year fixed-term lease that has been renewed on expiry and remains in force. Special provisions state that the landlord bears no repair obligation during the lease (the tenant is responsible) and that the tenant bears no restoration obligation on termination: repair costs during ownership are light, but no restoration can be expected when the tenant leaves. The transaction is an exclusive agency listing handled by House Do Sales Management Co., Ltd. (Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto; Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism license (2) No. 9324), management number 1667. The listing was registered and updated on September 11, 2026, with the next update scheduled for December 10, 2026. The road price map shows the municipal Toyocho nursery school and the Mukainakahara Daiichi and Toyocho Daiichi parks nearby.