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Why Japanese homes lose value so quickly

Unlike in many countries, homes in Japan often depreciate the moment they’re built. From unique tax policies and postwar ...
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Why are millions of homes in Japan empty: Inside the shocking rise of abandoned "ghost houses" across the nation

Across Japan, something unusual is happening in plain sight. Entire neighbourhoods have houses that still stand, but nobody lives inside them anymore. Windows stay closed for years. Gardens grow wild, ...
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We started a website to help foreigners buy cheap homes in Japan. We've bought 6 homes ourselves, but it's not the money-maker you'd expect.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Take Kurosawa: Our original plan was to make a website to help people search for homes in Japan. But people would start messaging ...
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I bought a cheap home in Japan sight unseen. The $26,000 I spent is a better investment than a vacation home in the US.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Erik Buhrow bought a home in Japan for $26,000 while he was still living in the US. Buhrow, who grew up in Japan, wants to return ...
Business Insider

Japan has millions of cheap abandoned homes. Here's what to know before you buy one.

Japan has millions of abandoned houses in the countryside, and the country is struggling to fill them. With the population in Japan shrinking and Japanese buyers vastly preferring new over used homes, ...
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Snapping up abandoned homes in Japan: Buyers beware, says expert

Snapping up abandoned homes in Japan: Buyers beware, says expert CNBC's Lin Lin takes a closer look at the surge in Japan's abandoned homes, which foreigners can snap up cheaply. But one expert warns ...
Benzinga.com

A Look At Japan's Reverse Housing Crisis Where Millions Of Homes Sit Vacant

Japan's housing industry is facing the reality that it is possible to have "too much of a good thing." That's because while America's real estate industry is wrestling with a lack of availability that ...
The New York Times

In Japan, Designers Fit Big Ideas Into Tiny Homes

Some newer houses around the country are barely wider than a common family car. From left, Takina Shimura and his parents, Tomoko Shimura and Yoshiki Shimura, in their compact house in Zushi, Japan, a ...
Marketplace

Foreigners find Japan’s empty homes not empty of value

Sangenjaya is a small but busy neighborhood in Tokyo, about three stops from the famous Shibuya Crossing. Imagine not being far from Westminster in London or Times Square in Manhattan, New York — but ...
Digital Journal

Traditional Japanese homes Making A Comeback

TOKYO (dpa) – Long ignored by many Westernized Japanese, traditional wooden houses have experienced a renaissance in the Land of the Rising Sun. Rather than building a new house, lovers of the ...
Business Insider

Want a fixer-upper in Japan? You could nab one of millions of country houses for sale for just $25,000.

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. With home prices and rents increasingly unaffordable in the US, some Americans are looking for their ...