Leopalace21 Corporation announced that the Company entered into a business alliance with MarketEnterprise Co. Ltd. to jointly vitalize the reuse market by providing benefit to utilize
MarketEnterprise's price estimate service for unnecessary items to the customers who visit the Company's leasing offices to search for rooms and existing tenants in the apartments
managed by the Company. The Company aims to improve customer satisfaction and contribute to the society by reusing unnecessary items, the first case in the real-estate service
industry in offering "Oikura" service nationwide for the benefit of the customers and tenants. The Company holds about 570,000 apartment rooms under its management and offers
leasing service of rooms to mainly single-person households with standard equipment of furniture and home appliances. As the majority of the customers relocate at the time of the
varied changes in their lives, such as freshly joining colleges and companies, being transferred to another place due to company business, or utilizing an apartment rooms for
teleworking, the company came to understand that many of the customers and tenants consider disposal of unnecessary items at move-in and move-out, hence they are potential users of "Oikura" service. In preparation for a few busy months for relocation to the spring season, the Company determined to tie up with MarketEnterprise which holds one of the country's
leading secondhand shop networks, and to offer the benefit as a value added service to the tenants and to increase toughpoint with the new customers. In parallel the collaboration helps MarketEnterprise to expand its customer base.