[Assessed 143.2%] Detached house in Fujimi, Saitama — 19 min from Fujimino Sta.

This resale detached house is located in Watodo 3-chome, Fujimi City, Saitama Prefecture, about 19 minutes on foot from Fujimino Station on the Tobu Tojo Line (about 21 minutes from Tsuruse Station). The site sits in a Category I Low-rise Exclusive Residential zone (50% building coverage, 80% floor-area ratio), within an urbanization-promotion area, on flat terrain.

The lot is flag-shaped (hatazao-chi): from the registered 104.08 sqm total, we deducted a 22.93 sqm narrow access strip to arrive at an effective 81.15 sqm used for the land valuation. The length of that access strip is not disclosed in the listing, and reading it off the site-plan drawing's scale suggests only about 6-7m (roughly 14 sqm), which does not match the registered area. If the strip were 14 sqm, the effective area would be 90.1 sqm (159.0% assessed ratio); with no deduction at all it would be 183.7%; our adopted figure of 81.15 sqm (143.2%) sits between those. The strip's frontage is 2m wide; Saitama Prefecture's ordinance requires a 3m-or-wider strip once its length exceeds 20m, but since the length is not disclosed, we could not confirm whether this lot meets that standard. In addition, the listing's road-access field is blank ("-"), and whether the 4.0m private road at the front (188.03 sqm, held as a 1376/18803 co-ownership share) qualifies as a Building Standards Act "designated road" has not been confirmed.

There are two wood-frame houses on the lot: one built in September 1967 (37.62 sqm) and another built in November 1967 (48.32 sqm); both are about 59 years old and valued at 0 yen for assessment purposes. The road-price-based land valuation is about 12.17 million yen, well above the listed price of 8.5 million yen. Possible reasons include the unconfirmed road-access classification noted above, the flag-lot shape, demolition costs for the two 1967-built houses, and the property currently being vacant. The road price used here is the most common value among the block roads across Watodo 3-chome as a whole: 150,000 yen/sqm.

The listing photos show no significant step or retaining wall between the 4.0m private road and the lot, and the boundary with neighboring lots is only a low curb, confirming the house stands independently (not a row house). A roughly 2m-wide passage matching the access strip is visible beside the wood-frame house. However, the road's legal classification, the exact length of the access strip, and which of the two houses corresponds to building (1) or (2) could not be determined from the photos.