Fukuoka’s transaction data points to a relatively active but not low-cost market for buying premises. Median house prices reached ¥40,000,000 in 2025, up on a 5-year CAGR of 2.71%, with 1,375 house transactions last year; older houses traded at a median of ¥27,000,000, offering a lower entry point than the overall market.
This profile suits buyers who want a real operating city market rather than a purely distressed-property hunt. Liquidity is moderate at 1.463 transactions per 1,000 residents, and the city is large at 939,622 people with a day-night ratio of 1.02, so premises are being traded in a live urban economy. At the same time, the vacant-home base is substantial at 82,700 homes and a 15.97% vacancy rate, while the akiya proxy ratio is 0.2778; however, the akiya mobilization ratio is only 0.00462, which suggests vacant stock exists but only a small share is turning into transactions. For lifestyle buyers, that makes Fukuoka more plausible for conventional resale searches, especially older stock, than for expecting abundant bargain akiya flow. Affordability is not especially loose either: the price-to-income ratio is 11.06 against average taxable income of ¥3,615,928.
The main caveat is that these figures describe residential transaction aggregates, not business-use premises specifically, so adaptation costs and zoning fit are outside the dataset. The latest transaction count in 2025 is lower than 2024, and net migration was slightly negative at -1,808 (-0.19%), while the 65+ share is 30.46%, so buyers should read this as a market with demand and stock, but not as one where every vacant property is readily acquirable or every location has the same depth of turnover.