Yakuza 0 Director's Cut Guide | Make Money with Real Estate Business

One of the top ways to make money is through Kiryu’s side business, Real Estate Royale. This mode opens up once you reach Chapter 5. Your main goal is to reclaim the city from the Five Billionaires. 

To make progress, you must buy up properties across Kamurochō and oversee them from your base at the Sugita Building.

The system can look a bit tricky at first glance, even with the tutorials. To succeed, you need to understand the layout of the city. Each of the Five Billionaires rules over a specific district, which includes Leisure, Pleasure, Electronics, Gambling, and Media.

Your first task is simple. Walk right up to the front doors of the buildings owned by these tycoons to buy them. Sometimes, the prompt to buy can be a bit stubborn. If you get stuck trying to buy a property, try sliding along the wall right next to the entrance while pressing the confirm button.

Managing Properties and Staff

Once you buy a piece of real estate, it will start generating rent over time. These earnings can be collected back at the Sugita Building in Yakuza 0 Director’s Cut.

But how much cash you get, and how well your properties survive enemy takeovers, is all down to the workers you put in charge of them.

You can employ new employees by completing substories or some activities across Kamurochō. Your workforce is split into three distinct categories known as Advisors, Security Staff, and Managers.

Advisors

These workers are essential for growing your business. You want to use them between your cash collection runs to pour money back into your buildings. Investing in your real estate raises the rank of the property, which increases your overall cash flow.

Every advisor has a different skill level for five specific categories, which are Restaurant, Retail, Entertainment, Pleasure, and Commercial. 

Their skill levels are marked by symbols. A double circle means they have the highest proficiency, which results in excellent returns on your investments. 

A standard circle represents good proficiency, while a triangle means their skills are just average. If you see a cross, that means they have poor proficiency and will give you little to no financial returns.

Security Staff

Good guards keep the Five Billionaires from messing with your business. If you leave a low-level guard in charge of an area, your buildings will be wide open to enemy attacks.

When an area falls into trouble, a warning will pop up on your map. You will need to run over to that specific spot immediately to beat up the thugs sent by the rival billionaire. Keep high-level guards assigned to your busy areas to stop these attacks from happening in the first place.

Managers

The right managers help you squeeze the absolute most profit out of your real estate. Every manager has two main attributes called Financial Savvy and Economic Influence.

During your collection runs, the billionaire who owns that specific zone might challenge you to a money battle. When this happens, you just need to throw cash at the tycoon to force them to back off in Yakuza 0 Director's Cut.

If your manager's meter drops by a star during the fight, their financial savvy stat will permanently decrease. Because of this risk, always make sure you have a good backup fund of cash on hand before you start collecting rent.

A manager's economic influence changes all the time. Every single time you collect payout from an area, their influence meter shifts one slot to the right. 

This shift can either help or hurt your profits depending on that specific manager's unique stat modifiers. You need to swap your managers around regularly to keep your profits at their absolute highest.

Making Progress

Advancing through the business storyline is straightforward once you know the pattern. Keep buying buildings and managing your collection runs until your ownership percentage in a specific district hits a certain point. Reaching these milestones triggers major story events.

These story triggers happen at three specific ownership marks throughout your takeover. Reaching 30% ownership triggers an initial event or standard street battle. 

Once you hit 60% ownership, you will have to compete in a mini-game challenge based on that billionaire's personal hobby. Finally, hitting 90% ownership triggers a final boss battle against the billionaire of that district.

For example, when you take over the Leisure King's territory, you will have to fight a basic group of thugs at 30%, beat a karaoke challenge at 60%, and survive a real boss fight at 90%.

Your progress in that specific district will lock completely until you clear the challenge. These events are not too difficult if you are already used to the standard combat and mini-game systems in Yakuza 0 Director's Cut.

Just finish the challenges, take over the districts, and use that massive wealth to fund your upgrades.

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