Glossary
Kanrihi (monthly management fee)
The monthly fee every condo owner pays for shared building upkeep — cleaning, lighting, elevator, staff, insurance.
Kanrihi is the recurring monthly charge that funds day-to-day running of a condominium's common areas: cleaning, hallway lighting, elevator maintenance, the management company's fee, shared insurance, and on bigger buildings a concierge or resident caretaker. You pay it whether the unit is occupied or empty, so it's a fixed drag on yield that listing presentations love to leave out. As a rough guide, budget somewhere in the ballpark of ¥200–400 per square meter per month, more in a serviced tower with a pool and front desk. Crucially, kanrihi is separate from the repair reserve (shuzen-tsumitatekin) — one keeps the lights on, the other saves for the roof.