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How to become a Condominium Management Officer

Also called: Property manager

Acts as the person in charge of apartment buildings managed by a condominium management company, supporting the owners' association and looking after the building and equipment.

Main tasks

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How to become one

No particular education or qualification is required to start. About half of new staff come from outside the condominium management industry, followed by new graduates and people moving from other management companies. Most companies recruit through Hello Work (public employment service), and many also advertise in newspapers, magazines and online or use recruitment agencies. There is no industry-wide standard for how long it takes to work independently. Generally, it is said to take three to four years to gain the knowledge and experience needed. By law, management companies must have a qualified management business manager at each office, so after joining you are expected to gain this national qualification (kanri gyomu shuninsha). The skills needed are learned in two main ways: on-the-job training through daily work and guidance from managers and senior staff, and off-the-job training through courses inside and outside the company and self-study. Owners' associations and others ask for your advice and views in many situations, so you need to keep gathering broad information, knowledge and experience about condominiums, such as how to interpret related laws like the Act on Building Unit Ownership and the Condominium Management Optimisation Act and the management rules, and information on repairing, improving and renovating buildings and equipment. More specialist matters are handled together with the management company's technical, legal and other specialist departments. You are expected to use your communication skills, awareness of compliance and spirit of hospitality to act as coordinator between your company, the owners' association, the local community, and the many people involved in managing the building, such as caretakers, cleaners and building contractors. A related national qualification is condominium management consultant (mansion kanrishi). A management business manager works for the management company to carry out the management contract, whereas a condominium management consultant generally advises owners' associations, made up of residents without specialist knowledge, on matters such as running the association and accounting, acting as a kind of adviser to the association. The two roles are different.

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How do I become a Condominium Management Officer?

No particular education or qualification is required to start. About half of new staff come from outside the condominium management industry, followed by new graduates and people moving from other management companies. Most companies recruit through Hello Work (public employment service), and many also advertise in newspapers, magazines and online or use recruitment agencies. There is no industry-wide standard for how long it takes to work independently. Generally, it is said to take three to four years to gain the knowledge and experience needed. By law, management companies must have a qualified management business manager at each office, so after joining you are expected to gain this national qualification (kanri gyomu shuninsha). The skills needed are learned in two main ways: on-the-job training through daily work and guidance from managers and senior staff, and off-the-job training through courses inside and outside the company and self-study. Owners' associations and others ask for your advice and views in many situations, so you need to keep gathering broad information, knowledge and experience about condominiums, such as how to interpret related laws like the Act on Building Unit Ownership and the Condominium Management Optimisation Act and the management rules, and information on repairing, improving and renovating buildings and equipment. More specialist matters are handled together with the management company's technical, legal and other specialist departments. You are expected to use your communication skills, awareness of compliance and spirit of hospitality to act as coordinator between your company, the owners' association, the local community, and the many people involved in managing the building, such as caretakers, cleaners and building contractors. A related national qualification is condominium management consultant (mansion kanrishi). A management business manager works for the management company to carry out the management contract, whereas a condominium management consultant generally advises owners' associations, made up of residents without specialist knowledge, on matters such as running the association and accounting, acting as a kind of adviser to the association. The two roles are different.

How much does a Condominium Management Officer earn in Japan?

Average annual income in the private sector, bonus included, is ¥5,286,700 (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare). The figure is for the wage survey group Other general clerical workers, which covers several jobs.

Do you need a degree to become a Condominium Management Officer?

Not always. In this job's census occupation group, 55% of workers are university graduates.

Will AI change the work of a Condominium Management Officer?

Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

独立行政法人労働政策研究・研修機構（JILPT）作成 職業情報データベース 解説系ダウンロードデータ（IPD_DL_description_7_01.xlsx）ver.7.01 職業情報提供サイト（job tag）より2026年10月4日にダウンロード（https://shigoto.mhlw.go.jp/User/download）を加工して作成

独立行政法人労働政策研究・研修機構（JILPT）作成 職業情報データベース 簡易版数値系ダウンロードデータ（IPD_DL_numeric_7_00.xlsx）ver.7.00 職業情報提供サイト（job tag）より2026年10月4日にダウンロード（https://shigoto.mhlw.go.jp/User/download）を加工して作成

Sources: JILPT Occupational Information Database download data via job tag (解説系 ver.7.01 and 簡易版数値系 ver.7.00, downloaded 4 October 2026), processed by Peernovo; MHLW, Basic Survey on Wage Structure 2025; Statistics Bureau of Japan, 2020 Population Census; MEXT, School Basic Survey 2025; MHLW, Employment Referrals for General Workers (Hello Work statistics). Figures processed by Peernovo. English job names, translations and the matching of jobs to statistical groups, schools and degree fields by Peernovo.

Updated 4 October 2026