Best Real Estate Brokers Companies in Japan
The 91 best Real Estate Brokers companies in Japan in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Facilo.
Japan's Real Estate Brokers sector doesn't have a unicorn yet, but the 91 companies we're tracking here are ranked by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum — and the funding picture is sharper than the headline $17M total suggests. Facilo alone accounts for $9M of that, with Iimon and Housmart each pulling $3M. So the capital is concentrated, not spread thin. Brokerage apps are moving too: median install growth hit +18% YoY across 202 real estate and brokerage apps, which tells you mobile-first property search is where users are going. The global real estate market was valued at roughly $6,817.5B in 2021, forecast to reach $5,850.0B by 2030 at a 5.27% CAGR, with urbanization and rising disposable income doing the heavy lifting on demand.
The sector trend worth watching is the shift toward buyer representation. Fee transparency is becoming a live issue globally, and Japan's brokerage market isn't immune to that pressure. Coverage overall is flat, but residential buyer agency and purchasing representation are the themes attracting attention right now. Broker career structures are also getting scrutinized as the industry professionalizes. Backers like SMBC Venture Capital and Accord Ventures are the names showing up repeatedly in this cohort, which signals institutional appetite even where deal sizes stay modest.
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Ranked: Best Real Estate Brokers companies in Japan
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Facilo Provider of online brokerage services for buying and selling residential properties | $9M | 28 mo ago | Series A | Hiroshi Ichikawa Founder & CEO | 2021 | Froala EditorMathJaxApache HTTP Server+27 | — | — |
| 2 | iimon Provider of real estate brokerage services for commercial and residential sector | $3M | 46 mo ago | Series A | Hirokazu Goto Co-Founder | 2019 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+28 | — | — |
| 3 | Housmart Real estate management company | $3M | 92 mo ago | Series A | Masayuki Hayama CEO | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Rennovater Provider of brokerage services for buying & selling of homes | $924K | 47 mo ago | Seed | Tomoyuki Matsumoto Founder | 2018 | WordPressMySQLPHP+11 | — | — |
| 5 | Non Brokers Provider of real estate brokerage services for buying, and selling residential real estate | $545K | 95 mo ago | Seed | Kazuma Tomine CEO & Director | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Ieichiba Provider of online houses brokerage services | $375K | 82 mo ago | Seed | — | 2015 | Node.jsTailwind CSSOpenSSL+13 | — | — |
| 7 | IRIS Provider of brokerage services for buying, selling & renting of homes | — | 15 mo ago | Seed | Hiromitsu Sudo CEO | 2014 | Node.jsTailwind CSSReact+15 | 17 patents Warp‑knitted functional textiles for protective workwear and pollutant detoxification. | — |
| 8 | Mercury Provider of real estate web marketing solutions | — | 81 mo ago | Public | Takahiro Jin CEO | 1991 | WordPressMySQLPHP+13 | — | — |
Top 9 Real Estate Brokers companies in Japan
#1
Series A · Minato, Tokyo · founded 2021$9.5Mraised▾
Provider of online brokerage services for buying and selling residential properties
- Feb 2024Series A$8M
- Feb 2023Seed$1.5M
#2
Series A · Chuo City, Tokyo · founded 2019$2.9Mraised▾
Developer of real estate technology designed for the home industry. The company's platform allows to input of properties from an intercompany distribution site to a conversion site and is equipped with a new property input function, duplicate edit input function, cover property confirmation function, and assists in a small distance from picking up to completing input, enabling real estate agents to reduce the cost required for property input education and minimize the risk of property listing suspension due to incorrect input.
- Jul 2022Series A$2.9M
#3
Seed · Kyoto, Kyoto · founded 2018$924.3Kraised▾
Operator of a housing provision platform intended to provide peaceful homes for everyone. The company's platform offers information about available vacant flats for people with disabilities, single elderly, and foreigners who face difficulty in finding rented places, enabling individuals to access housing support at a low rent.
- Jun 2022Seed$924.3K
#4
Series A · Chuo City, Tokyo · founded 2014 · 20 employees$2.7Mraised▾
Housmart is a provider of real estate property management and advisory services. The company offers a database of real estate properties and related transaction which can be used to analyse market trends and study unique cases. It claims to use AI and big data to offer assistance in the purchase of properties, analyse market value, services for documentation & transaction, and more. It estimates the future market price of a property using years of available data and variables such as property location, age, etc. The company also offers an iOS-based application called "Cowl" that enables users to view and purchase properties online. It has a feature that offers property suggestion based on the desired conditions and preferences The company mainly undertakes transactions related to the sale/purchase of second-hand condominiums.
- Sep 2018Series A$2.7M
#5
Seed · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2015 · 4 employees$545.5Kraised▾
Developer of a home inspection application designed to provide a housing status survey. The company's application can be used to conduct inspections of used homes and buildings to detect ceiling cracks, wall leakages, and roof, and floor breakage and thereafter prepare a report of the same, enabling customers to buy and sell houses with ease by going through such survey reports.
- Jun 2018Seed$545.5K
#6
Seed · Tokyo · founded 2015 · 9 employees$375.1Kraised▾
Provider of online houses brokerage services
- Aug 2019Seed$375.1K
#7
Seed · Shinjuku, Tokyo · founded 2014—raised▾
Provider of brokerage services for buying, selling & renting of homes
- Mar 2025Seed—
#8
Public · Shinjuku City, Tokyo · founded 1991 · 71 employees—raised▾
Mercury Realtech Innovator Inc provides a real estate information platform utilizing real estate big data and technologies such as Artificial intelligence for conventional big data.
- Aug 2019PE—
#9
Funding Raised · Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture · founded 1979 · 97 employees—raised▾
Asian Star Co is engaged in offering real estate services. The business of the company includes real estate leasing management, real estate rental brokerage, leasing, real estate ownership, and casualty insurance agency business.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Real Estate Brokers coverage by sub-theme.
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Funding & growth over time
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