"ONE LOCAL" Launches to Create New Communities Integrating Real Estate and Tourism, Transcending the Rural-Urban Divide
SHONAI ESTATE has rebranded as ONE LOCAL Inc., strengthening its partnership with LOCAL RESORTS to integrate real estate and tourism. The company's model involves using profits from stable, urban "marketable real estate" to self-fund investments in rural "creative real estate" with high potential. This "self-propelled capital cycle" aims to revitalize local regions by turning cultural resources into destinations, fostering sustainable community development.
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SHONAI ESTATE Inc. (Headquarters: Musashino City, Tokyo; Representatives: Daisuke Yamanaka, Kohei Sakurai) will change its company name to "ONE LOCAL Inc." Concurrently, it will strengthen its group management structure with its affiliate, LOCAL RESORTS Inc., and establish a unified business foundation. This foundation will integrate the ability to curate local resources, cultivated through the operation of hotels like "SUIDEN TERRASSE" and "Tokijin JIJIJIN Matsuyama," with the execution capabilities of real estate development and brokerage.
Through this integration, we will implement a unique "cycle of value creation." Using profits from marketable real estate in urban areas as capital, we will reinvest our own capital into rural real estate with latent potential. Through our unique curation, we will update local cultural resources into "destinations" and maximize their real estate value. We will build a system to complete this cycle in-house and lead sustainable community development.
▶︎ONE LOCAL Corporate Site
https://onelocal.inc
The "Two Types of Real Estate" ONE LOCAL Envisions
We view real estate from two perspectives, "marketable" and "creative," and dynamically circulate capital and value by traversing these domains.
Marketable Real Estate
This refers to real estate, primarily in urban areas, where the market is mature and highly liquid. The transaction scale is large, and a sales market is established, allowing for the stable generation of cash.
Creative Real Estate
This is an area with high potential value but where investment is difficult to attract. It is real estate that can form new markets by drawing on local resources such as nature and culture.
By connecting these two domains within our company, we dynamically circulate capital and value. The implementation of this mechanism, which rewrites the conventional wisdom of the real estate business, is the value ONE LOCAL provides.
ONE LOCAL's Uniqueness
Many real estate companies reinvest urban profits back into cities, while rural businesses struggle with independent fundraising. In contrast, ONE LOCAL has business bases in both urban and rural areas and directly invests its own capital in rural regions, using profits earned in urban areas as the source. We can invest in rural areas with the funds we earn ourselves, without relying solely on loans from financial institutions. This "self-propelled capital cycle" is our unique model, integrating on-the-ground strength in hotel operations with expertise in real estate development.
ONE LOCAL Group Development Track Record
Focusing on the latent local resources dormant in rural areas, we transform them into businesses that generate solid profits through our unique curation and operational capabilities.
▶︎New Hotel Brand
SUIDEN TERRASSE
▶︎Regeneration Project Example
"Tokijin - JIJIJIN Matsuyama"
ONE LOCAL Company Mission
"Empowering community developers with the ability to curate and monetize regions."
We believe that rural areas hold three great hopes: agriculture, tourism, and enterprise. The SHONAI Group stands on the same ground as the people taking on these challenges, shares the same issues and hopes, and will together cultivate and implement the strength to compete globally. To continue being a beacon of hope for rural areas.
Representative Comments
Daisuke Yamanaka, CEO, ONE LOCAL Inc.
Rural areas lack community development. And community development is real estate. We believe that in Japan, the distinction in real estate is not "urban vs. rural," but "marketable vs. creative." While creative real estate that develops new markets from rural areas is worth the challenge, it is also very important to earn from marketable real estate. By handling both marketable and creative real estate, we at ONE LOCAL will realize more interesting community development in Japan's rural areas.
Kohei Sakurai, COO, ONE LOCAL Inc.
Over 17 years involved in development, land acquisition, and new business launches in the city center, I came to one conviction. The urban real estate business has solid earning power. Meanwhile, rural areas have countless assets with dormant value, unable to secure financing or find buyers. However, there are no players connecting these two. ONE LOCAL directly invests its own capital into rural real estate, using profits earned in the city as the source. We acquire rural properties ourselves and create value together with local businesses. My role is to implement this "self-propelled capital cycle" as a system.
Through this integration, we will implement a unique "cycle of value creation." Using profits from marketable real estate in urban areas as capital, we will reinvest our own capital into rural real estate with latent potential. Through our unique curation, we will update local cultural resources into "destinations" and maximize their real estate value. We will build a system to complete this cycle in-house and lead sustainable community development.
▶︎ONE LOCAL Corporate Site
https://onelocal.inc
The "Two Types of Real Estate" ONE LOCAL Envisions
We view real estate from two perspectives, "marketable" and "creative," and dynamically circulate capital and value by traversing these domains.
Marketable Real Estate
This refers to real estate, primarily in urban areas, where the market is mature and highly liquid. The transaction scale is large, and a sales market is established, allowing for the stable generation of cash.
Creative Real Estate
This is an area with high potential value but where investment is difficult to attract. It is real estate that can form new markets by drawing on local resources such as nature and culture.
By connecting these two domains within our company, we dynamically circulate capital and value. The implementation of this mechanism, which rewrites the conventional wisdom of the real estate business, is the value ONE LOCAL provides.
ONE LOCAL's Uniqueness
Many real estate companies reinvest urban profits back into cities, while rural businesses struggle with independent fundraising. In contrast, ONE LOCAL has business bases in both urban and rural areas and directly invests its own capital in rural regions, using profits earned in urban areas as the source. We can invest in rural areas with the funds we earn ourselves, without relying solely on loans from financial institutions. This "self-propelled capital cycle" is our unique model, integrating on-the-ground strength in hotel operations with expertise in real estate development.
ONE LOCAL Group Development Track Record
Focusing on the latent local resources dormant in rural areas, we transform them into businesses that generate solid profits through our unique curation and operational capabilities.
▶︎New Hotel Brand
SUIDEN TERRASSE
▶︎Regeneration Project Example
"Tokijin - JIJIJIN Matsuyama"
ONE LOCAL Company Mission
"Empowering community developers with the ability to curate and monetize regions."
We believe that rural areas hold three great hopes: agriculture, tourism, and enterprise. The SHONAI Group stands on the same ground as the people taking on these challenges, shares the same issues and hopes, and will together cultivate and implement the strength to compete globally. To continue being a beacon of hope for rural areas.
Representative Comments
Daisuke Yamanaka, CEO, ONE LOCAL Inc.
Rural areas lack community development. And community development is real estate. We believe that in Japan, the distinction in real estate is not "urban vs. rural," but "marketable vs. creative." While creative real estate that develops new markets from rural areas is worth the challenge, it is also very important to earn from marketable real estate. By handling both marketable and creative real estate, we at ONE LOCAL will realize more interesting community development in Japan's rural areas.
Kohei Sakurai, COO, ONE LOCAL Inc.
Over 17 years involved in development, land acquisition, and new business launches in the city center, I came to one conviction. The urban real estate business has solid earning power. Meanwhile, rural areas have countless assets with dormant value, unable to secure financing or find buyers. However, there are no players connecting these two. ONE LOCAL directly invests its own capital into rural real estate, using profits earned in the city as the source. We acquire rural properties ourselves and create value together with local businesses. My role is to implement this "self-propelled capital cycle" as a system.