{"id":447691,"date":"2026-05-18T13:10:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/447691\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:10:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:10:31","slug":"bank-lending-to-real-estate-hits-record-high-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/447691\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank lending to real estate hits record high in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bank lending to Japan\u2019s real estate sector remains at a record high, driven by rising property prices, especially in urban areas, prompting\u00a0not only major banks but also regional lenders to expand their loan portfolios.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bank of Japan, new lending to the sector in 2025 climbed 15.1% from the previous year to \u00a517.8 trillion ($112.6 billion). The annual total is about 70% higher than the peak recorded during the bubble economy in 1989, when such lending totaled \u00a510.4 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>Amid concerns that a sharp decline in real estate prices could leave banks saddled with bad loans, financial authorities are closely monitoring market developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bank lending to Japan\u2019s real estate sector remains at a record high, driven by rising property prices, especially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5461,114,184,85,46,14989,4861,209490],"class_list":["post-447691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-banks","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-japanese-economy","tag-real-estate","tag-regional-banks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}