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Inbound Social for
Real Estate & Housing

With native English and Chinese teams,we get you chosen from abroadand run all of it for you.

  • Native English and Chinese speakers on staff
  • Strong in travel
  • A full range of marketing solutions

We focus on the house-hunt of foreign residents in Japan and on the viewing experience seen by people searching for a home from overseas, and use it to drive enquiries and viewing bookings in their own language.

Platforms we cover

  • Instagram
  • TikTok
  • Xiaohongshu (RED)

Apartment hunting means room tours on social media now

4.12m

Foreign residents have passed four million

4,125,395 foreign residents at the end of 2025. A record for the fourth year running, and 3.3% of the population

Immigration Services Agency, as at the end of 2025

68.9%

Seven landlords in ten don't take foreign tenants

Share of landlords who said they do not accept foreign tenants. Which means the properties that do get chosen

Japan Property Management Association, FY2022 survey, independently checked

132,291firms

There are 130,000 agencies, and the number is still rising

Number of licensed real estate agencies. Up for the eleventh year running

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, FY2024 Survey of the Real Estate Brokerage Act, October 2025

63.6%

The property information people see on social is viewing video

The most common property information people saw on social media: viewing videos and room tours. A floor plan needs no language

Ielove GROUP, 2026

54.3%

What gets looked at most is photos of the property

The top thing people weight in a listing. Property video comes in at 26.3%, up 4.9pt on the previous year

Zentaku and Zentaku Hosho, 2025 White Paper on Housing and Living, July-August 2025 (aged 20-65, n=5,000)

47.4%

Half of agencies still aren't using social media

Estate agencies who said they make no use of social media. A market for whoever goes first

Ielove GROUP, March 2026 (estate agencies, n=95)
  • POV video of cleaning a guest room at Shimoda View Hotel

    Shimoda, Shizuoka

    Hotels & ryokan

    Shimoda View Hotel

    1.99M views

  • POV video of a stylist coloring hair at a Shibuya salon

    Shibuya, Tokyo

    Hair salon

    A hair salon in Shibuya

    2.3M views

  • POV video of a food truck selling braised-pork burgers at an event

    Japan National Stadium, Tokyo

    Food truck

    Iwasaki Honpo (braised-pork burgers)

    1.51M views

  • POV video of making toppings in a pudding kitchen
    Sweets maker

    Tokyo Tenryu

    1.0M views

  • POV video of a coin ring workshop

    Asakusa, Tokyo

    Craft workshop

    RAGTIME COIN FACTORY

    790K views

  • Video of an acai bowl shop owner presenting the menu

    Kawaramachi, Kyoto

    Café

    Sugary, an acai bowl shop

    4.6M views

  • POV video of a J.League home match, filmed through the eyes of the club's media officer
    Football club

    Reilac Shiga FC

  • Ad video for a fan-cooled vest
    Ad video

    Landmark Co., Ltd.

  • POV video walking through the night-time art at a hot spring glamping site

    Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki

    Glamping

    Izura Hot Spring

4 benefits of inbound social support for real estate and housing

  1. 01

    Video shows how big a room really is

    Video walking through the room shows its size and sunlight, even to people who can't read Japanese.

  2. 02

    Get found while people search before moving

    Post videos in the words people search with, like train lines, schools and workplaces, and you get seen while they look before coming to Japan.

  3. 03

    Reach only the people you can handle

    Decide which properties accept foreign tenants and how screening works before posting, and you avoid inquiries you can't answer.

  4. 04

    Answer worries about screening and deposits up front

    Answer questions on screening and deposits that listings don't cover, in their own language, and worries are settled before they inquire.

Four reasons real estate and housing companies choose TripClear for inbound social support

  1. A local's eye

    Native English and Chinese speakers on staff

    POV room tours have no talent and no dialogue, so subtitles and voiceover can be swapped into the words people search with.

  2. 20M+combined followers

    Strong in travel

    Students, expats, overseas buyers. We decide which segment to pursue based on when they arrive in Japan.

  3. Joined-up channels

    A full range of marketing solutions

    We set up a multilingual FAQ and form and LINE auto-replies first, then run the videos that got a response. Services to combine with

  4. Cast by country

    Overseas creators, too

    We select creators living in Japan who have rented a place here themselves.

POV Studio

POV leans on no words, so rolling it out market by market moves faster.

POV is vertical video shot from the viewer's own point of view. Because it leans on no dialogue, a language barrier never becomes a barrier to the footage.

  • Illustration of a first-person video on a vertical phone with a long playback bar, a save icon and a search bar

    3.8×

    More saves, more branded search, longer viewing

    A typical reel holds viewers for 5 to 10 seconds; a POV view lasts 30 to 40. Save rates run 3.8× those of ordinary video, and branded search is up 68%.

  • Illustration of vertical videos arriving by paper plane from the first week of a calendar

    7days

    Very fast turnaround

    Delivery in as little as seven business days. The four to six weeks that casting would take shrinks, so you make the busy season.

  • Illustration of a person walking while filming in first person with a compact camera on their chest

    0

    No cast, no risk

    No performer's likeness or words can turn into a problem across borders. Swapping out a scene takes a day.

  • Illustration of thumbnails for many vertical videos produced from a single source clip

    20/month

    Volume at low cost

    From 20 videos a month at 30,000 to 80,000 yen each. Swap the subtitles and voice-over, and the same footage serves country after country.

See POV Studio

Creative that moves people

Now that social media has become the main battleground for business, what it takes is strategy and memorable content, together. Delivering both is what TripClear does best.

By focusing on the experience people get through a product or service, and on the process of how things are actually made, we turn that content into brand recall, sales, and hiring.

  • Video save rate

    3.8×

    Average save rate versus standard video

  • Branded search growth

    +68%

    Growth in brand-name searches driven by POV video

  • Lower ad CPA

    -42%

    Measured CPA reduction versus existing social ads

Our creative work

See all
  • POV video of cleaning a guest room at Shimoda View Hotel

    Shimoda, Shizuoka

    Hotels & ryokan

    Shimoda View Hotel

  • POV video of a stylist coloring hair at a Shibuya salon

    Shibuya, Tokyo

    Hair salon

    A hair salon in Shibuya

  • POV video of a food truck selling braised-pork burgers at an event

    Japan National Stadium, Tokyo

    Food truck

    Iwasaki Honpo (braised-pork burgers)

  • POV video of making toppings in a pudding kitchen
    Sweets maker

    Tokyo Tenryu

  • POV video of a coin ring workshop

    Asakusa, Tokyo

    Craft workshop

    RAGTIME COIN FACTORY

  • Video of an acai bowl shop owner presenting the menu

    Kawaramachi, Kyoto

    Café

    Sugary, an acai bowl shop

  • POV video of a J.League home match, filmed through the eyes of the club's media officer
    Football club

    Reilac Shiga FC

  • POV video of cutting an exhaust and fitting a variable valve in a repair shop
    Auto repair

    Doggies outfit customs (Dufflyer LLC)

  • POV video of a glamping site staff member checking guests in

    Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki

    Glamping

    Izura Hot Spring

See our results →

Process

From choosing the audience to running the multilingual accounts: how it actually runs in real estate

From agreeing the objective through multilingual operations and repurposing into ads, taken on together

  1. 1Inquiry and quote

    We ask which countries you're targeting and how you welcome visitors, set platforms and scope per country, then quote.

  2. 2Agreeing the objective and what you can accept

    It starts with which enquiries you can actually take.

  3. 3Audience research

    We work out who, in which language, is looking for a flat, and where.

  4. 4Choosing platforms and building the multilingual landing layer

    Before any posting, we build the layer that receives the enquiry.

  5. 5Filming and multilingual content production

    We film in Japanese and rebuild it for each language market.

  6. 6Going live, scaling, and monthly reporting

    Videos that got a response get widened through advertising and casting.

The multilingual platform mix in real estate, and what we watch on each

RED (Xiaohongshu)Chinese-speaking markets Where searches land. Properties and process kept there

What we watchViews from search, saves, profile visits

InstagramEnglish-speaking markets Showing the area and what living there is really like

What we watchSaves, profile visits, link clicks

TikTokEnglish-speaking markets and Southeast Asia The way in for people not yet looking

What we watchViews, average watch time, share of reach from overseas

Paid socialMeta and TikTok Winning videos delivered by language and place of residence

What we watchArrivals at the enquiry page, cost per enquiry

Your own site and enquiry path The landing layer. A multilingual FAQ and form in order

What we watchEnquiries in other languages, how many reached a viewing

One example of a mix. The audience and your operating area change which language you start with.

We'll lay out the approach and cost for your business when we talk

Consultations and quotes are freeRequest a quote

FAQ

Questions we are often asked in real estate and housing

How is this different from inbound tourism work?

The audience is completely different. What works here is foreigners already living in Japan looking for a flat, and people buying a home from abroad. What they weigh isn't scenery; it's referencing and contract terms.

We aren't set up to accept foreign tenants. Can we still start?

You can. But before any posting, we start by settling the terms of acceptance together. We write down what you can handle and publish only what you can answer within it.

Can we run multilingual accounts without staff who speak English or Chinese?

The posting side is fine. Translation, subtitles, voiceover and comment handling sit with our native-speaker team. The rules for replying after an enquiry we build with you.

Do the property advertising disclosure rules apply to multilingual posts too?

They do. Whatever the language, the Real Estate Brokerage Act, the fair competition code and the advertising law all apply. We fix the required disclosures in the Japanese copy and check them again after translation.

Does posting to people overseas really lead to a signed contract?

The audiences to start with are people whose arrival date is set and people already living in Japan who are moving. From everything we have run, it doesn't progress unless you narrow to those. The judgement comes from enquiries and viewings.

Do you have multilingual results in real estate and housing?

We talk through examples and the process from close areas when we meet. For the results with numbers behind them, see the Social media management for estate agencies page.

We share case studies with real estate and results from similar industries, along with how we would proceed, when we talk.

What does it cost, and what is the going rate?

It depends on the number of target countries, the platforms and accounts we run, and how many languages are covered. We quote individually after a hearing. If ads are used too, delivery costs are paid to the platforms at cost, separately from the quote.

Can we hire you for multilingual social media management or inbound tourism support?

Our inbound marketing support covers multilingual social media management and inbound tourism support together. We use Instagram and TikTok for English-speaking markets and Xiaohongshu (RED) and Douyin for Chinese-speaking markets, and handle everything from multilingual captions and subtitles to local KOC/KOL campaigns and ad delivery.

Which company runs this service?

TripClear Inc., based in Shinsen-cho, Shibuya, Tokyo. Our core is social media management and vertical short-form video production, and we support real estate and housing businesses. For the company profile, see Company.

Which languages and platforms do you cover?

For inbound visitors we run multilingual accounts, mainly in English and Chinese. Alongside Instagram and TikTok we cover RED (Xiaohongshu) and Douyin for the Chinese-speaking market. Campaigns with KOCs and KOLs (local creators with influence) are designed by the same team.

Can posts follow the real estate advertising rules (the fair competition code)?

Yes. We check the labelling and property details before posting, in line with the ban on exaggerated advertising under the Real Estate Brokerage Act, the fair competition code of the Real Estate Fair Trade Council, and the Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations. Where the line sits for what can be written in real estate is decided before operations start.

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