Management

Hisashi Kitami

President and CEO of List Group

In his first job after graduation, Mr. Kitami was tasked to find a suitable office for the company. Unsatisfied with the service of the agencies that he visited, his effort came to naught. Deeply frustrated by the experience, Mr. Kitami envisioned a way for real estate agency to better connect with its clients and help them find what really suits their needs. To fulfil his aspiration, Mr. Kitami took the action and established his own brokerage firm – the List Group in 1991 when he was 25.

The real estate market took off in the 1980s when Mr. Kitami gained much experience from working as a professional sales elite in real estate companies. Having seen and experienced first-hand the distorted ecology in the brokerage market, Mr. Kitami set the then new company’s first mission to be restoring the trust of clients in real estate agencies when he established List Group.

Over the years, under the bold visions of Mr. Kitami, List Group has acquired not only the loyalty of individual clients but also an enviable reputation in the industry, leading a strong presence in Japan and around the globe. Under Mr. Kitami’s leadership, List Group has made its way into the complicated and ever-changing Asian property market since 2016, building a network of offices in Singapore, Manila, Hong Kong and Bangkok. Mr. Kitami helped create a vast international network for cross border brokerage.

As the Group grows, Mr. Kitami continues to bring new ideas to the industry. In 2012, the company became the first real estate company in Japan to offer home owners defect warranty for used independent housings sold. More recently in 2017, the company has committed in developing the innovative eco-town in Yokohama.