In some cases, the council is able to carry out emergency repair work on abandoned homes, and then force a sale at auction to recover its costs. This sometimes results in a windfall for the owners ...
Luckily, thanks to the efforts of passionate preservationists and renovators, these remarkable abandoned homes, mansions and castles were brought back from the brick and restored to their former glory ...
Anton Wormann, 32, who is originally from Sweden, moved to Japan in October 2018 and soon learned about the millions of abandoned homes across the country. The first 'akiya' he encountered had ...
After many of the schools were abandoned, they were given a second life by their new owners. In Qidong, of the 44 nursing homes, 10 were once primary schools. "I noticed in 2009 that the elderly ...