With a shrinking population and more than 10 million abandoned properties, the country is straining to match houses with curious buyers.
www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/realestate/japan-empty-houses.html
From Maui Surfer
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About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
Quote “The Thursfields’ house in 2019, shortly after they bought it. The house had been deserted after the previous owner’s family refused to inherit it upon the owner’s death.”
wow…gotta wonder How RICH was the person who refused to inherit this home? wow
Beautiful home
The laws regarding real estate in japan are kinda bonkers. It’s the purchaser’s responsibility to pay back-taxes, not the current owner. It costs more money to knock down a house than it does to let it slowly rot.