The number of vacant houses in Japan has surged to a record high of nine million – more than enough for each person in New York City – as the east Asian country continues to struggle with its ...

Coline Aguirre first began to imagine her future during a high school exchange program in Japan a decade ago. Aguirre, who was born in Paris but moved around a lot as a child, spent a year studying in ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The house that property consultant and ghost investigator Kazutoshi Kodama regularly surveys has a grim history: seven years ago, an elderly woman hanged herself in the bathroom and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This Japanese Company Has Quietly Become the Fifth Largest U.S. Homebuilder Leading Japanese homebuilder Sekisui House is quietly ...

KYOTO, Japan, Nov. 26 (UPI) --There has been a lot of buzz online recently about Japan's affordable houses, some of which can be purchased for as little as $10,000. Social media accounts like ...

Japan’s Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd. agreed to buy Tri Pointe Homes in an all-cash deal worth about $4.5 billion, the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The number of vacant houses in Japan has surged to a record high of nine million – more than enough for each person in New York ...

Coline Aguirre bought a traditional house in the Japanese countryside when she was 24. She left France and moved to Japan alone to restore the property and start her own real-estate consultancy. "It's ...

Last January, Sekisui House acquired major U.S. homebuilder MDC Holdings, which builds single-family homes under the name Richmond American Homes, in a $5 billion cash deal. Sekisui House also owns ...