- Business
- Nippon Building Fund Inc. (NBF) operates as Japan's largest office-specialized J-REIT, primarily investing in high-quality office buildings and related assets to achieve steady asset growth and stable earnings from a medium- to long-term perspective; its portfolio consists of 70 properties valued at 1,519.0 billion yen with a 98.6% occupancy rate, focused mainly on central Tokyo's five central wards and surrounding areas including Yokohama, Kawasaki, Sapporo, Toyama, and other regional cities such as Hokkaido, Fukushima, Niigata, Aichi, Hiroshima, and Osaka. The fund generates revenue principally through real estate rental income from large corporate office buildings leased to tenants in service, electrical equipment, information, and communications industries; it also earns ancillary revenues, profits from property dispositions, and manages investments in securities and beneficiary certificates. Sponsored by Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. and externally managed by Nippon Building Fund Management Ltd., NBF was established on March 16, 2001, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Real Estate Investment Trust Securities Market (ticker: 8951) on September 10, 2001, and maintains its headquarters at Muromachi Furukawa Mitsui Building, 3-1 Nihonbashi Muromachi 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo. Recent strategic property replacements include the acquisition of Yokohama Mitsui Building, D-TOWER TOYAMA, Frontier Musashikosugi N and S Buildings, and CONNECT SAPPORO (renamed NBF CONNECT SAPPORO, completed November 2025 for 13.8 billion yen) paired with dispositions of Tsukuba Mitsui Building, Shiba NBF Tower, and NBF Sapporo Minami Nijo Building; these moves, funded by long-term borrowings and debt refinancing, support portfolio optimization, with a five-for-one investment unit split effective October 1, 2024, increasing outstanding units to 8,504,955 and a July 2025 third-party allocation raising 871.15 million yen. NBF targets an LTV ratio of 36-46%, maintains high credit ratings (JCR AA+, R&I AA, S&P A+), and forecasts EPU of 2,200 yen and DPU over 2,400 yen ahead of schedule in the 49th fiscal period through internal growth of 2.0-2.5% and external expansion.