We've been looking for land in north-west Tokyo outskirts, namely around the Seibu Ikebukuro line from Shakuji to Kiyose. I posted in the past about how most of the subdivisions we found always had one plot left, and it was always like the one with the garbage spot or something. So we did end up finding the developer which seems to be handling the new development in this area, and asked them about upcoming land they know about. We ended up finding a really good place that we looked at in July. It was not listed online anywhere, but they had all the plans for how the land was going to be split into 6 plots, and it was supposed to become available for sale by the end of August. Now that time has came and went, but the land is not for sale still. It turns out Nerima ward wants the seller to get a new survey and it's going to be the end of the year, maybe even into next year before everything is finished and they can actually sell the land now.
Unfortunately, since we've seen this potential, and it was much further on the eastern side of the area we were looking, there isn't anything else comparable now. We can't even find something that would be a second choice. I'm worried that the realtor knows this and may tell the seller they can try to ask for a higher price once the land we want becomes available. Or possibly that they end up not even being able to sell it due to some problem with the survey. Should I just pretend to find some other plot for now, just to make it look like I have a back-up plan, even know neither me nor my wife will really want it now?
by Ark42