If you have a house owner in the stomach, but goes and is struggling with the idea of whether or not you are prepared to put large sums of money to buy a house, or you’re looking for a holiday home abroad, then you can consider to glimpse against Japan.

Here is the authorities, namely in full swing to launch a project to reduce the number of old and abandoned homes in the country, which among other things means that they will be giving away many of the houses away for free, or sell them for minimal amounts.

It writes Business Insider.

According to the american media, is it quite specific about about eight million houses, most of whom have been abandoned by former residents, who have fled from natural disasters, and never come back, while other former residents have left their homes to move into newly built homes elsewhere, or in nursing homes, if they are up in age.

in Addition, many japanese are supposedly so superstitious, that the real-estate agents in Japan have difficulty selling the old homes that stand empty because the previous occupant of the house suffered a betstr.org violent or unnatural death.

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in addition to offering free housing, japanese authorities have reportedly also offer financial support to the owners, who will have to renovate their new property, because it is in decay.

According to the Japan Times lives about 70 percent of the inhabitants in the east asian country’s capital, Tokyo, in apartments, while most of the surviving homes are houses located in rural areas outside the city. But the newspaper estimates that the houses will attract many japanese, who are tired to stay in the middle of the hectic city life.

Although it sounds like an absurdly high number of empty houses, then assess the japanese think tank Nomura Research Institute (NRI), that the proportion of abandoned homes will increase to around 21,7 million in 2033, which would mean that a third of all homes in Japan will be empty.

– If it continues, it will eventually be necessary to limit new buildings, but it will have a significant impact on the economy, said Wataru Sakakibara, who is a consultant in NRI, for the Japan Times.

If you want to see what houses there are both free and for sale, you can click here.

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