There is a vacant house crisis in Japan, and this is what the government is doing to get rid of them.
Perhaps it is not within your plans to move to Japan. But if by any chance you had thought about living in this country, or if it had crossed your mind give a radical turn to your life and you are looking for a place to settledoing it could be easier than you think.
The demographic problems in Japan have reached the real estate field. One in four people is over 65 years old and, for health reasons, they are frequently sent to nursing homes for care, leaving the old family home uninhabited and without any kind of maintenance.
For that reason, more than 8 million have been listed in a document called “Akiya banks“ (which translated would be as ‘database of abandoned houses’) and offered to whoever wants to occupy them: the vast majority with great discounts on their price and thousands of them, completely free.
But in Japan, houses are not a market in the traditional sense, under which they seek to generate capital gains over time. Houses in this country usually have no more than 30 years of useful life: real estate companies are oriented, rather, to rebuild homes almost from scratch, rather than to increase the value of existing properties. Also, most are in good condition.
But why are so many houses abandoned in Japan?
Houses in Japan are easily abandoned by that culture of real estate detachment. Added to this is the fact that many houses belonged to recently deceased people (Japan is a country of older adults: a third of its population will be 65 years old in 2040), while others belonged to people who chose suicide, which is why for which the properties are devalued even more. A third element is the migration of young people to the most important cities.
The whole conflict is more beneficial for foreigners who want to inhabit the country of the rising sun, than for the Japanese themselves
social phenomenon nippon it makes people marry later, have fewer children and therefore buy houses later. In addition, in pursuit of greater professional success, young people are concentrated in the cities, leaving the country houses and living in rented or subsidized housing complexes, which generates overpopulation in the urban core, but leaves the rural area empty.
New houses in this country are very expensive, and if you don’t believe in superstitions, the truth is that get a house almost free Doesn’t sound so bad, does it? So now you know, if you are looking for a place to move, hopefully you will find a house in okinawaone of the areas of the world where people live longer.
And you, what do you think about it? Tell us if you would be moving to Japan soon!
Sources:
Ecoosphere
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