At that time, I was enrolled in the production department of an advertising agency.He was exclusively making recruitment advertisements for condominiums.One of the advertisements I was in charge of was a resort apartment in Yuzawa -cho, Niigata Prefecture."Is there a person in the world who wants to ski until buying an apartment?"
I made pamphlets, drawings, and price lists.I was surprised to see the price, but it was almost the same as the suburban apartment in Tokyo at the time.The total purchase cost and maintenance costs were higher than the cost of continuing for two or three -day skiing for 2 nights and 3 days using a hotel in the same resort.
"Is it meaningful to buy this?"
It was a mysterious product.In the first place, the form of a resort apartment itself was a real estate product that could not be explained by cost performance, despite the purpose and use of hot springs and skis.
But time was a bubble.I remember that even if there was a price that could not be explained to such products, it was selling as it was.Eventually, even tower -type resort apartments like in the city center appeared in the Yuzawa area one after another.In the Yuzawa area, a resort apartment boom occurred.Eventually, about 15,000 resort apartments were built in Yuzawa -cho.
So what is the current situation?It is quite miserable.First of all, the asset value of such resort apartments can be considered almost zero.There are many properties sold for 100,000 yen, but I don't think there are many contracts.
Condominium buying and selling in this area should be involved in most of the transactions, but have not disclosed any data on transactions.We do not accept media coverage.On the other hand, when examining auction projects, many properties are memorable.The memorable price is a real zero yen, but it is said that it does not exist if there is no zero yen in the book, so put the price only.The auction start is set to 10,000 yen or 50,000 yen.
In other words, the court also regards many resort condominiums in Yuzawa -cho as real zero yen.The resort apartment, which was once sold for more than 30 million yen to 50 million yen, is now considered zero yen.Isn't this a pretty shocking event in the history of Japanese condominiums?
When you visit such a resort apartment in Yuzawa -cho, you may be a little surprised.
First, although it has become a little aging, the equipment is fine.In particular, there are many properties that seem to be like a first -class hot spring inn.Among the tower -type resort condominiums, there is also a gorgeous observation public bath.However, there are few places where fresh hot water is always supplied.As far as I saw, everything was a "circulating filtration" style that uses hot water.
In a resort apartment, the directors have heard that they never immerse themselves in hot water.If you know what the hot water is praised in the bathtub, he says, "I don't want to immerse yourself."
Looking at the resort apartment in Yuzawa -cho, it was surprising that many people who seemed to be there were many elderly people.I showed it on weekdays in November 2018.In some resort apartments, they passed a yukata, put on a towel on their necks, and passed many times with the elderly heading to the public bath with a washbasin.
You can live in a condominium with a hot spring public bath with a purchase fee of hundreds of thousands of yen and a monthly maintenance cost of about 30,000 to 40,000 yen per month.In a way, it's not for the elderly.However, Yuzawa is a heavy snowfall area.It is buried in snow in winter.I wondered what to do in that case.
In addition, many elderly people have a weak body, and various problems occur.In the public bath, it is often said that solid excretion is found in hot water.In the past, a resort condominium was a gorgeous thing to go ahead of the times, but now it is like a day service facility where the elderly spend time.
According to one theory, 60 % of resort apartments in Yuzawa -cho are not used for one day a year.I don't know how credible these numbers are.However, if you look around the resort apartment in each area of Yuzawa -cho, you can imagine that there will be less than 10 % of the dwelling units used during the off -season.Among the 700 apartments I used for accommodation, five units were on the room at 10:30 in the evening.
Many of these resort apartment owners should want to let go if they can.You may be lucky enough to find a buyer, but you can imagine that most people are paying management expenses, repair reserves, and property taxes while enjoying despair.The cost is around 300,000 yen per year even for a small dwelling unit with a narrow unit of about 30m2.If it is a large dwelling unit near the station, it should be more than 500,000 yen per year.
You have to keep paying such expenses even if you don't use it for one day a year.This is no longer a real estate, but a "negative" movement that makes your assets negative just by owning it.
Recently, a business that focuses on the weakness of the owner who thinks, "I can't let go of it."The business model of the company says, "If you pay three years, you will get the division ownership."By paying the total amount of management expenses, repair reserves, and property tax, etc. from the current owner, the ownership is relocated to its own corporation.
Paying three years, the owner, is fully released from the fourth year or later payment."If so, you pay for three years, so please pick it up."Finally, the resort apartment has fallen as if it were a paid oversized garbage.It is also a difficult white thing that requires a fairly expensive pick -up fee.
However, it seems that this business is probably impossible.How does the company take over the condominium owned by a company -related corporation?Maybe you can't resell.It is a property that the original owner did not sell over the years.If you become the owner in such a transaction, you have to pay the management expenses, repair reserves, and property taxes to Yuzawa -cho.
What kind of scheme is this pick -up business?
Let's give my selfish guess.
The company will leave the resort apartment taken by related corporations.Naturally, do not pay management expenses, repair reserves, or property taxes to Yuzawa -cho.If you pay, this business model will not make a profit.
In other words, the company gets a reward and relocates division ownership to its own -related corporations, but has no obligation as a owner.And the reward equivalent to three years of ownership expenses will be profitable.
If you did that intent from the beginning, it would be an illegal act.However, if you make an excuse, "I made an affiliated corporation and tried to operate it, but it didn't work."Probably such a scheme.
Therefore, it is troublesome for management unions and Yuzawa -cho, which cannot be paid for management expenses, repair reserves, and property taxes.In the end, the only way to auction is that the management union will be auctioned or Yuzawa -cho will be on the public auction.However, I don't think that a good ordinary person who drops it there will appear.
Despite being in such a miserable state and being exposed to the demon's hands of a malicious trader, I think that the management union of resort apartments in Yuzawa -cho is fairly fair.
When auction was made due to administrative expenses delinquent, there were many cases where a successful bid was made in the management union.It is said that a property that was auctioned for 10,000 yen may be awarded for 200,000 yen.This is to prevent anti -social people who cannot buy or rent a house by ordinary means.
In Yuzawa -cho, there are organizations like the chairman of the condominium chairman, and there are places to discuss with the government and police.In the past, Yuzawa -cho's solidarity organizations have been persistently negotiated with Niigata Prefecture, the jurisdiction of the home building.
There is a track record in which the management union has acknowledged the act of dropping out the dwelling units of their apartment and reselling them to third parties as "not restrictions on the Housing Building Law."
Despite the bubble period, those who purchased the resort apartment are some wealthy.I guess many of them have built a wealth that can buy resort apartments with their own talent and abilities, rather than inheriting their assets from their parents.They are the first generation of management unions.
Such a type of people can work and have excellent brains.I believe that because they operate the management union, the resort apartment in Yuzawa is still in order.
However, about 30 years have passed since the peak of the bubble.Those who purchased at the age of 40 should be 70 years old.80 years old in 10 years.Will the know -how of the management union operated by the first generation be inherited after the second generation?Or is there a person called the second generation?
In November 2015, a embezzlement of repair reserves was discovered at a tower apartment in the Yuzawa area.It turned out that a person, who had been the chairman for many years, had set up a reserve fund of over 700 million yen.
The condominium, now, has fallen to about 10 % of the discovery.After the incident, the management union's repair reserves accounting were almost zero.There is no reason for the asset value of such apartments to be evaluated as usual.
In the future, I don't know when such an incident will occur in the Yuzawa area.In addition, the number of aging condominiums that have been built for more than 30 years has increased.At the same time, the division owners are also aging.I don't think that the number of administrative expenses and delinquencies in reserve funds will increase.
I want to pay attention to how much they will be ruined.