Header image: a real estate agency in Ōyamachō, Itabashi, Tokyo, photographed on 8 October 2022 by トトト and released under CC BY-SA 2.1 JP on Wikimedia Commons. We cropped it, and the crop is shared under the same licence. The property sheets in its window are in Japanese only.
At Home Japan in English: How to Search athome.co.jp
Does at home have an English version? No. On 6 November 2026, athome.co.jp showed its house search and listings only in Japanese; its English pages describe the company. Browsing is free. Translate listings in your browser, or search in English on Buy Houses Japan, where 14,542 of our 24,661 houses are at home listings.
Checked on at home's own pages on 6 November 2026. Published by Buy Houses Japan, which shows many at home listings in English; the counts are below.
USD amounts are approximate, at ¥157.82 per US$1, the rate our site used on 27 October 2026.
What at home is
At Home Co., Ltd. is a Tokyo company, with its head office in Ota ward (At Home, About Us). It has shared property listings between real estate agencies since 1967, and its English company page says more than 60,000 agency locations are members of its network (At Home, English company page). Its consumer site, athome.co.jp, carries houses, condominiums, land and rentals placed by those agencies.
On 6 November 2026 its used-house section showed 148,345 used detached houses for sale across Japan (本日の掲載件数, "listed today", on athome.co.jp/kodate/chuko/).
at home is not the seller or the agent. Each listing names the agency that placed it, with its licence number and phone number, and that agency handles the sale.
at home also runs one of Japan's two national akiya bank websites; LIFULL runs the other. The land ministry subsidized part of the build cost, and the two companies run the sites independently (MLIT, read 6 November 2026). Our LIFULL HOME'S Akiya Bank guide explains how akiya bank purchases work.
What at home costs to use
- Searching is free. House lists and listing pages open without an account. The "ログイン・新規登録" (log in or sign up) button is for favorites (お気に入り) and saved conditions. We found no fee or paid plan for buyers on its pages.
- Asking about a house is free. Each listing has a quick inquiry form that goes to the agency.
- The cost comes when you buy, from the agency. A brokerage commission is capped by law. Since July 2024, for a house priced at ¥8 million (about US$50,700) or less, an agency may charge up to ¥330,000 (about US$2,090) including tax, if it explains the fee and you agree to it when you sign the brokerage contract (MLIT summary, in Japanese). A listing whose 取引態様 (transaction type) says 売主 means the agency is the seller and no commission is due. Our buying cost calculator lists every tax and fee for a given price.
How to search at home in English
- There is no language switch. athome.co.jp/en/ answered "page not found" on 6 November 2026, and the English and Chinese pages under /corporate/ describe the company only.
- Open used houses by prefecture. Used detached houses are under /kodate/chuko/; a prefecture list follows the same pattern, such as /kodate/chuko/nagano/list/, which showed 2,069 houses in Nagano that day.
- Translate the page. In Chrome, click the Translate icon in the address bar, or right-click and choose "Translate to" your language (Google Chrome Help).
- Check the fields a translation flattens. Here is one at home listing, a one-storey 5DK house in Saku, Nagano, as it read on 6 November 2026:
| at home field | Shown | What it tells you |
|---|---|---|
| 価格 (price) | 350万円 | ¥3.5 million (about US$22,200). 万 means 10,000 |
| 築年月 (built) | 1980年1月 | January 1980, before Japan's June 1981 seismic standard. See what 1981 means |
| 土地面積 (land area) | 5,544.31m²（公簿） | Area as recorded in the land register (公簿), not a new survey |
| 現況 (current state) | 空家 | Vacant now |
| 取引態様 (transaction type) | 専任媒介 | The agency holds an exclusive contract with the seller, so its commission applies |
| 都市計画 / 用途地域 | 区域外 / 無指定 | Outside a city planning area, no zoning district |
| 物件番号 (property number) | 6991965940 | at home's number for the listing; the page is athome.co.jp/kodate/6991965940/ |
| 情報公開日 / 次回更新予定日 | 2026年8月25日 / 2026年11月10日 | Posted on 25 August; next update due on 10 November |
| 備考 (notes) | IT重説対応物件 | The agency can give the pre-contract explanation of important matters (重要事項説明) online |
The listing marks some fields "－" and says to confirm those with the agency; here that included the road access (接道状況). Our glossary of Japanese property terms covers the rest.
- Ask through the quick form, or call. On that listing, the quick inquiry (クイック問合せ) required a reason, your name, an email address and a phone number, and said at home would send a password to that phone by SMS or voice call. It asked for no address. We did not test whether a phone number outside Japan receives the password.
- Look for 英語対応可. The agency box on that listing showed "英語対応可（Available in English）" among the agency's features. Where you see it, you can write to the agency in English.
How Buy Houses Japan differs from at home
On 6 November 2026 our public pages showed 24,661 detached houses with photos, a yen price and a source check in the last 14 days. 14,542 of them (59%) are at home listings, which we read from Nifty Real Estate, a Japanese site that combines listings from several portals. Most of the rest came from SUUMO (7,733), LIFULL HOME'S (1,728) and Yahoo! Real Estate (618) by the same route.
| at home | Buy Houses Japan | |
|---|---|---|
| Language | Japanese | English, Japanese, Spanish, Korean, Traditional Chinese |
| Houses | 148,345 used detached houses | 14,542 at home houses among 24,661 detached houses |
| Other property | Condominiums, land, rentals, new builds | Detached houses only |
| How you search | Filters, in Japanese | One sentence in any of the five languages |
| Cost to search | Free | First search without an account; a free account gets 7 searches, then 1 a day up to a balance of 7; unlimited from ¥2,980 (about US$19) a month |
| Asking about a house | Quick form in Japanese, to the agency | Ask about this home: we reply within one business day in your language, and contact the agency in Japanese only if you allow it |
The gap in stock is real. In Nagano on 6 November, at home showed 2,069 used houses; our Nagano page showed 393, of which 287 were at home listings. Overall we show about one in ten of at home's used houses, because we keep only houses with photos, a yen price and a recent source check. The same house can appear under several agencies, so neither number is a market total.
What our at home houses look like, on 6 November 2026:
- Median asking price ¥14.8 million (about US$93,800), against ¥16.8 million for all our houses.
- 1,753 at ¥3 million (about US$19,000) or less, and 5,635 at ¥10 million or less.
- 4,944 of the 14,508 with a known year (34%) were built in 1980 or earlier, before the 1981 standard.
- 4,329 are on our akiya page: vacant, built in 1990 or earlier and asking ¥10 million (about US$63,400) or less.
- All 47 prefectures, with the most in Nagasaki (710), Oita (648) and Kumamoto (548).
Houses on Buy Houses Japan carry a View Original Listing link. For an at home house, that link ends in "athomef_" and at home's property number, so you can open the original at athome.co.jp/kodate/ followed by that number. The Saku house above is on our site at ¥3.5 million, 5DK, 113.78 m² on 5,544.31 m², built 1980: the same figures as its at home page.
Try a prepared search: a countryside house in Nagano under ¥5 million with land. Your first search runs without an account.
- Choose at home if you read Japanese or use a browser translator, want every listing, or want condominiums, land or rentals.
- Choose Buy Houses Japan if you want to describe the house in one sentence in English, see only houses re-checked at the source, and ask questions in your own language.
Questions about at home
Does at home have an English version?
No. On 6 November 2026, athome.co.jp showed its house search and listings in Japanese only, and athome.co.jp/en/ answered "page not found". The English and Chinese pages describe the company, not properties. Browser translation lets you read listings; Buy Houses Japan shows 14,542 at home houses in English.
Is at home free to use?
Yes, for buyers. House lists and listing pages open without an account, an account only saves favorites and conditions, and the inquiry form is free. What you pay is the agency's brokerage commission when you buy, unless the agency is the seller (売主). We found no buyer fee on at home's pages on 6 November 2026.
Can a foreigner contact an agent on at home?
Yes. The quick inquiry form asks for a name, an email address and a phone number, not an address, and at home sends a password to that phone by SMS or voice call. Each listing also shows the agency's phone number and licence number. Look for 英語対応可 (Available in English) in the agency box.
Search at home's houses in English
Start a house search in English (Japanese, Spanish, Korean and Traditional Chinese work too), or browse houses for sale across Japan without an account. If a house makes your shortlist, open it and press Ask about this home.
Related guides
- Can you use SUUMO in English?
- LIFULL HOME'S Akiya Bank vs Buy Houses Japan
- Zillow Japan: 5 sites with houses for sale, compared
- Best websites for buying a house in Japan, ranked by use case
- The total cost behind cheap houses in Japan
- Viewing checklist for a Japanese house
Sources, all read on 6 November 2026: at home's used-house section, its Nagano list, the Saku listing and its inquiry form, its English company page, its About Us page and the "not found" answer at athome.co.jp/en/; MLIT's national akiya bank page and its July 2024 brokerage fee summary; Google Chrome Help; our own listing index, counted read-only. Counts change daily.