Business Alliance Agreement Signed with Taiwanese Proptech Startup maakuu; Delivering Real Estate Brokerage Services in the Taiwanese Market

Hankyu Hanshin Properties Corp. announced that it has concluded a business alliance agreement with a Taiwanese real estate tech startup (Headquarters: Taipei City, Republic of China; hereinafter referred to as "maakuu"). Through this partnership, the company will provide residential real estate brokerage services for properties it handles in Japan to Taiwanese customers via the real estate sales platform offered by maakuu.

maakuu is a startup company providing real estate tech and overseas real estate trading services in Taiwan. It offers a one-stop real estate sales platform that integrates online and offline channels, handling a wide range of overseas properties including those in the U.S. and Australia as well as Taiwan. The company has gained high trust by closely catering to individual customer needs from property selection to move-in.

In recent years, interest and demand for Japanese real estate have been growing in Taiwan. With this partnership, our company will be able to provide services from a position closer to Taiwanese customers through maakuu's real estate sales platform. Moving forward, we aim to deliver efficient, highly transparent, and reliable real estate brokerage services, primarily for the residential properties we handle, as well as rental management services for residential operations, to an even larger number of customers.

The workflow of the collaboration between our company and maakuu under this business alliance agreement is as follows.

About the collaboration workflow between our company and maakuu

About maakuu

- Company Name: maakuu (Registered Taiwanese Name)

- Location: No. 2, Alley 22, Lane 31, Tongbei St., Zhongshan Dist., Taipei City

- Established: October 2021

- Representative: Hom Liou, CEO

- Business Description: Development and operation of an e-commerce platform specializing in overseas real estate purchase and investment support

- Website: https://www.maauu.com/

Comments from maakuu and our company regarding the business alliance

[Comment from Hom Liou, CEO of maakuu]

The partnership with Hankyu Hanshin Properties is a major milestone in cross-border real estate services between Taiwan and Japan, and a challenge to create a next-generation real estate sales model. By combining Hankyu Hanshin Properties' rich property information and operational know-how with maakuu's marketing capabilities and digital technology in the overseas market, we believe we can provide Taiwanese buyers and overseas owners with more efficient, highly transparent, and reliable real estate purchase and rental management services.

[Comment from Naohiro Kodama, Executive Officer of Hankyu Hanshin Properties]

Interest and demand for Japanese real estate have been increasing year by year in Taiwan. Through this partnership, we will be able to provide services from a position closer to the Taiwanese market, and by leveraging maakuu's network, we will deliver high-quality Japanese real estate and professional rental management services to more customers.

Hankyu Hanshin Properties Corp. https://www.hhp.co.jp/

Release https://www.hankyu-hanshin.co.jp/release/2026/04/3a87c55db91a41e120f706f23a83fb248d612027.pdf

Publisher: Hankyu Hanshin Holdings 1-16-1 Shibata, Kita-ku, Osaka