The purpose of this paper is to study how Rental housing management business developed, and what is actual state of it. The results are as follows: Rental housing management business has been developing from Meiji period,and present major companies were established from the 50’ of Showa period. It is mainly consisted of extensive subleasing business entities, middle-standing enterprises operating in prefectural area and many small others. And it has been functioning to provide good services to lessers.
