Building Inspection

Japanese

Today, at a time when enterprises face strong demands for compliance, in situations such as when buying, selling, or securitizing real estate there is a need to ascertain its value and risks appropriately through real-estate inspection and examination conducted by specialists in each field, such as third-party certified architects and engineers. Real estate involves a wide range of potential risks, such as

• Deterioration of Building and Equipment
• Legal Compliance
• Soil Contamination
• Seismic Risk
• Health Risk from Asbestos
• Fraudulent structural calculations.

Comprehensive and appropriate inspection and examination make it possible to ascertain potential risks and take the necessary countermeasures.

Through transactions with numerous real-estate investment funds and lenders in Japan and around the world, we provide highly reliable assessments, serving 1,000 properties per year.

Service Highlights

• Comprehensive Range of Services
  Legal compliance inspection, repair and renewal cost estimation, replacement cost estimation, hazardous substance inspections, soil-contamination inspections, and seismic risk assessments, etc. These assessments are described in Property Condition Report.
• Combinations of Various Service are Available.
• Prompt Reporting after Survey
  Since property condition reports can be provided three weeks after a field study, they are perfectly suited to cases that require quick decisions, such as real-estate deals.
• High Reliability
  For example, soil-contamination inspection reports are used for collateral assessment by major financial institutions.
• High-Precision Analysis
  The basic data used in seismic risk analysis is data used in insurance underwriting at Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
• Cost Saving Simplified Inspections are Available
  Providing simplified inspections for soil-contamination and seismic risks and conducting additional detailed inspections if needed makes it possible to realize cost savings on a total-cost basis.
• Third Party Independent Perspective
  As an insurer-related inspection firm, we conduct objective inspections from an independent perspective.
• Latest Knowledge
  Based on insurance design and the activities of industry organizations and others, as well as joint studies with academic institutions, inspections reflect the latest knowledge available.
• Numerous Clients
  These services are used by numerous business clients including listed REITs, major real-estate firms, and major financial institutions.
• Various Risk Reduction Menu
  We can provide a variety of risk-reduction measures for risks identified through analysis, including detailed inspections, support for repair construction, and insurance arrangements.
• Confidentiality
  In light of the highly confidential nature of asset information, risks of information leaks can be avoided through conducting inspection and analysis tasks in locations having assured security levels.

Solutions Concepts

• Based on performance spanning thousands of inspections and consulting contracts, we can provide a variety of risk-reduction methods for risks identified through analysis, including detailed inspections and construction support.
• Scientific, objective inspections are conducted from a neutral, third-party perspective.
• As needed, support will be provided on matters such as deciding on inspection details through exchange of opinions with CPAs, audit firms, and others.

Role of Due Diligence

Assessment Flow

Service Menu

Feel free to contact us for an individualized estimate. While costs vary with factors such as the content of the inspection, building age, and total floor area, in the average inspection assessment costs per building can range upward from roughly one million yen.