Sapporo does not rent to single people the way other cities do. July 2026
What is let here is a different product
Sorting Sapporo's advertised rentals in July by layout, the largest group is 1LDK at 34.3%, followed by 2LDK at 24.5%. Plain 1K units account for 9.7%.
| Layout | Listings | Share | Median per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1LDK | 10,951 | 34.3% | ¥1,541 |
| 2LDK | 7,809 | 24.5% | ¥1,255 |
| 1DK | 3,652 | 11.4% | ¥1,365 |
| 1K | 3,100 | 9.7% | ¥1,709 |
| 3LDK | 2,917 | 9.1% | ¥1,461 |
| Studio | 2,026 | 6.3% | ¥1,435 |
| 2DK | 667 | 2.1% | ¥1,082 |
| 4LDK | 371 | 1.2% | ¥1,196 |
| 3DK | 117 | 0.4% | ¥1,010 |
| 2SLDK | 77 | 0.2% | ¥1,601 |
| 1SLDK | 62 | 0.2% | ¥1,694 |
| 5LDK | 60 | 0.2% | ¥853 |
That is unlike the other cities. In Tokyo, 1K and studio units together are more than half the rental stock. In Kyoto, 1K alone is 54.6%; in Osaka, 54.4%. In Sapporo, 1LDK and 2LDK occupy that position instead.
It matters for any comparison of rent levels. When Sapporo's average rent is set beside another city's, the two averages are describing different goods. Sapporo's median rent per square metre is 1,511 yen, the lowest of the nine cities in this month's figures, and part of that gap is composition rather than price.
The sale side runs larger still.
| Layout | Listings | Share | Median per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3LDK | 1,946 | 37.6% | ¥320,451 |
| 4LDK | 1,430 | 27.7% | ¥270,270 |
| 2LDK | 519 | 10% | ¥314,567 |
| 4LDK+S | 217 | 4.2% | ¥243,289 |
| 5LDK | 206 | 4% | ¥188,713 |
| 3LDK+S | 174 | 3.4% | ¥311,927 |
| 1LDK | 133 | 2.6% | ¥323,370 |
| 2LDK+S | 93 | 1.8% | ¥327,932 |
| Studio | 54 | 1% | ¥206,027 |
| 6LDK | 50 | 1% | ¥174,641 |
Of 5,170 sale listings, 3LDK and 4LDK together exceed 65%.
Prices are falling
Sale asking prices moved -0.88% during July on a matched-listing basis, and rents -0.26%. Matched-listing means taking only the properties advertised in both observations and comparing each against its own previous price. The comparison never rests on fewer than 4,416 matched sale listings or 4,381 rentals.
A property that sells or lets leaves the listings and drops out of the matched set, so what remains leans toward listings that did not move, which are the ones under most pressure to reduce.
When a price moves, it is a cut
Of the 5,450 sale listings we could follow, 12.6% changed price. Among those 712 revisions, 98.3% were cuts, the highest share of the nine cities here. The median cut was -4.45%.
The wards barely differ. Every revision in Toyohira was a cut; Kita, the lowest, is 97.5%.
How age works here
| Building age | Listings | Share | Median per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-5 years | 315 | 6.1% | ¥601,911 |
| 6-10 | 189 | 3.7% | ¥403,169 |
| 11-20 | 449 | 8.7% | ¥396,195 |
| 21-30 | 1,148 | 22.2% | ¥361,983 |
| 31-40 | 1,733 | 33.5% | ¥254,882 |
| 41+ | 1,336 | 25.8% | ¥212,034 |
Moving from the newest band to 6-10 years takes about a third off the median price per square metre, after which the decline to thirty years is slight. The fall is concentrated in the first few years.
| Building age | Listings | Share | Median per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-5 years | 2,325 | 8.2% | ¥1,832 |
| 6-10 | 2,370 | 8.3% | ¥1,676 |
| 11-20 | 5,440 | 19.1% | ¥1,582 |
| 21-30 | 6,182 | 21.7% | ¥1,380 |
| 31-40 | 8,439 | 29.6% | ¥1,193 |
| 41+ | 3,708 | 13% | ¥1,122 |
Rents decline gently and steadily across the whole range. You can explore price against building age in more detail.
Levels
The median advertised sale price was 2,595 man-yen, or 28.7 man-yen per square metre; the median advertised rent 5.7 man-yen a month. Read these as levels, not trends: a median moves with the mix of what is listed.
About this data
We observed the market on 4 days for sale listings and 4 for rentals during July, recording 20,515 and 99,259 listing observations. These are asking prices, not transaction prices.
The ward breakdown covers sale listings only. Rental collection runs newest-first and stops once it is into listings already held, so depth varies day to day: enough for a city aggregate, uneven for a ward split. Composition and age bands come from the deepest collection day in the period. Building age is recorded on 89.2% of rentals.