Act on Promotion of Expansion of Public Land (Public Expansion Act) Q & A

The owner is under the substantive law and is not necessarily the right holder in the real estate registry.

It is not limited to buying and selling if it is transferred for a fee based on the contract. Even if it is a transfer based on a contract, exchange, reservation for buying and selling, etc., it is a transfer based on a contract and applicable if it is paid.
Gifts, donations, expropriation and auctions are not applicable.

Judgment of whether or not there is a notification is based on the actual measured area if it is actually measured. If the measured area is not known, the actual area will be determined based on the registered area.
However, in the “Registered Area” column in the land area of the notification (application) form, and if you know the actual land area, enter the measured area in parentheses.

It is not necessary to buy or sell equity interests, such as divisional ownership.
When sharing land, it is necessary for all co-owners to transfer for a fee.

Please fill in the "Notification", "The other party to be transferred" in "Notification".

Please submit the notification before the sales contract, and conclude the contract after receiving the "Notification of not purchasing".

You can also submit a report (application) with an agent. A power of attorney is required when proxy/agent submits a notification (application). Please use the form on the submitted documents page.

If you are notified of the purchase consultation, you will need to respond to the consultation unless there is a justifiable reason such as a natural disaster or serious illness, and it is unavoidable.
However, since it does not mean that the consultation must be in place, the conditions may not be met and the consultation may end up.

Within three weeks from the date of the notification (application), we will issue a notice of any result, whether or not the purchase consultation will be issued.

At first, about land which had you report (application), local public entities confirm whether there is use plan and decide whether to carry out purchase discussion. The results are given as a letter of advice.

The issued notice is valid until one year has elapsed from the date of notification, so there is no need to submit it again even if there is a change in the other party to be transferred or the planned transfer amount. .
However, if the owner has changed since the time of notification, a report is required even within one year.

If you have an area of 200 square meters or more on land in Yokohama, you can issue a purchase request form. About area, it is necessary to have actual measurement area when we measure and, if we do not measure, it is necessary to have more than 200 square meters in registry area.

The transfer of trust beneficiary rights is usually a kind of transfer of receivables that does not involve the transfer of ownership, but since there is also a transfer involving the transfer of ownership. Judgment is made based on the contents of the transfer agreement of trust beneficiary rights.
For example, if the beneficiary has the right to enjoy the land ownership right during or at the end of the trust period, the transfer of the trust beneficiary right can be regarded as the sale of land. We correspond to transfer and think that report is necessary. In addition, when the trustee sells (disposal) real estate, which is a trust property, it is necessary to notify the trustee at the time of sale (disposal).

The transfer contract with a suspension condition so that the paid transfer becomes effective in the event that the purchase consultation is not completed is a contract that takes effect from the time the suspension condition (the failure of the purchase consultation) is fulfilled. It is possible to conclude a contract before.
On the other hand, a transfer contract with a cancellation condition to invalidate the paid transfer if the purchase consultation is concluded, the transfer is valid until the cancellation conditions (conclusion of the purchase consultation) are fulfilled. It is understood that the contract violates Article 4 "Restriction of notification when trying to transfer land" or Article 8 "Restrictions on transfer of land".