# housing-assist

> Use this tool when you need to navigate Tokyo's housing market as a foreigner, requiring access to comprehensive rental listings, neighborhood information, and data-driven insights to inform your housing decisions. It solves problems such as finding suitable rentals, estimating move-in costs, and negotiating leases by providing 7 specialized tools and sourced data from leading platforms like SUUMO and Homes.co.jp. With a free, authentication-free interface, it offers a range of inputs from search queries to ward comparisons, and outputs including tailored negotiation strategies and cost estimates.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/housingassist-tokyo-housing  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/housingassist-tokyo-housing

## Description

▎ Tokyo housing market data for foreigners. Search 18,000+ weekly-scraped rental listings, compare Tokyo's 23 wards, estimate move-in costs, and get data-backed       
  negotiation strategies. Data sourced from SUUMO, Homes.co.jp, and at Home.                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                         
  ▎ 7 tools: search_listings, get_neighborhood_info, estimate_move_in_cost, get_buy_vs_rent, ward_matchmaker, lease_renewal_analyzer, negotiation_intelligence.          
                                                                                                                                                                         
  ▎ Free, no authentication required.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.50
- **Verification tier:** unverified

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** browser-automation
- **Updated:** 2026-08-16

## Source

- **Source listing:** [Smithery](https://smithery.ai/server/housingassist/tokyo-housing)

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "housingassist-tokyo-housing"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/housingassist-tokyo-housing` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/housingassist-tokyo-housing/pull`

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