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Kaori is an ordinary office worker, so she cannot buy a vacation house in cash. Here she explains how she financed it through the Housing Loan Corporation.

4. Financing through the Housing Loan Corporation

住金からの資金調達0
Kaori is an ordinary office worker, so she is not rich enough to buy a vacation house in cash. When she was younger, she even daydreamed about living a dream life as “the second wife of an oil tycoon,” but she had to face reality seriously.

First, the land must be purchased in cash. Even if she could somehow prepare 5,000,000 yen as her own funds for the land, she still needed to borrow 15,000,000 yen for the building from a financial institution. When borrowing money to build a vacation house, the first option to consider is usually the Housing Loan Corporation. The corporation offered several types of loans, and for a vacation house you would use the “Special Loan for Expanded Housing (Sumai Hirogari Tokubetsu Yushi)”.

If your purpose is not permanent residence, be careful and never choose the “My Home New Construction Loan.” Kaori herself made this mistake at first and applied for the “My Home New Construction Loan.” To explain (as an excuse), she had blindly accepted the builder’s advice: “If you apply as a ‘my home’ type loan, the loan amount will be larger. You’ll need to temporarily move your resident registration, but it’ll work out.”
After submitting the application, she waited and waited—no reply. Then a representative from the Housing Loan Corporation called.
“Is this really for permanent residence?”
Kaori, who is not good at lying, could not keep up the story.
“Actually…”
She confessed the truth: it was for a vacation house. The representative then said,
“Would you like to reapply under the Special Loan for Expanded Housing?”
Of course, Kaori answered,
“Yes, please.”
After she explained the outline of the design and they calculated the eligible amount, she learned that 15,000,000 yen was not possible, but the loan could be approved up to 14,500,000 yen. So she thought, “If that’s the case, I should have applied for the correct loan from the beginning.” Kaori blamed herself for not studying enough… sigh.

By the way, if you take out a loan for permanent residence, it seems they may conduct a surprise inspection after the building is completed. If they find you are not actually living there, the loan can be canceled. Kaori almost ended up in a frightening situation. Because of the delay in procedures, she missed the previous application deadline (March) and had to apply in the next round. However, it turned out to be a benefit—because the interest rate dropped significantly starting in April.
Before the March deadline, there had been a rush of applicants due to rumors that “the Housing Loan Corporation might be abolished.” But when the truth became clear, it wasn’t abolished at all. Instead, the interest rate went down and the lending limits expanded. From April, the corporation became even more powerful. So Kaori was able to apply with the newly reduced interest rate. Lucky!


住金からの資金調達
Is it okay to apply to the Housing Loan Corporation under the “My Home New Construction Loan”? No—if it is a vacation house, you must use the “Special Loan for Expanded Housing.” If the loan purpose is different, the loan could even be canceled after the vacation house is built. That would be dangerous—very dangerous.

How to read this story

Each page shows one step of building the vacation house in Nasu, such as land search, meetings with the architect, construction, and daily life after completion.
You can start from any part you like, but reading in order may help you understand the full flow more clearly.

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