Underwhelmed by suumo : r japanlife - Reddit The benefits of thing straight to a real estate agency vs going through Suumo would be that your negotiation leeway is lowered with the latter as Suumo takes commission from real estate dealers When I bought an apartment, we lowered overall cost by 2 million yen by negotiating with our real estate agent
不動産for Foreigners (Suumo, nifty and etc) : r japanlife - Reddit Suumo, etc are just databases for random real estate agents to list properties online You can contact the place that listed the property if you want, but don't expect anything A lot of listings on Suumo, etc are out of date, and are just used as bait to get you into their shop, where the agent will try to talk you into a place that gets them a larger kickback If you have an agent you like