Prohibitive cost of land

Rising land prices make it impossible for hard-working families to buy homes. Land prices make it difficult for new businesses to be housed. Authorities cannot afford to build parks or public transportation systems.

Extreme examples include the indication that the cost of all real estate in Tokyo exceeds the cost of all real estate in the USA. That of Kanagawa prefecture (bordering Tokyo) is equivalent to the cost of all real estate in France, Germany, Italy and the UK.

1. A sudden decline in land prices would reduce the availability of investment funds.

1. Restrictive effects of external capital on development
2. Prohibitive ownership costs
3. Prohibitive costs of farming
4. Prohibitive cost of cooperative start-up
5. Excessive costs

1. Unattractive development sites
2. Transfer of industries to low-wage countries
3. Monolithic architecture of high-rise buildings
4. Landlessness
5. Inadequate animal husbandry
6. High cost of housing

1. Short-term profit maximization
2. Overdevelopment of golf courses

1. Defective land use planning

1. Coordinating land development

1. Rising
2. Prohibition
3. Overpricing
4. Land
5. Inflation
6. High-spiritedness
7. High-mindedness
8. Costliness