An Aussie couple bought a Japanese home for $16,000, but hidden costs and the nation's vacant-building crisis explain the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Erik Buhrow bought a home in Japan for $26,000 while he was still living in the US. Buhrow, who grew up in Japan, wants to return ...

Japan has millions of abandoned houses in the countryside, and the country is struggling to fill them. With the population in Japan shrinking and Japanese buyers vastly preferring new over used homes, ...

For more than a decade, Japanese home builders have been tiptoeing into the U.S. housing market with small, discreet acquisitions of private American construction companies. Their quiet era is over.

Since COVID-19 forced Americans to reconsider where and how they live, the U.S. housing market is so hot that it’s leaving would-be buyers outbid and burnt out. Meanwhile, in Japan, all it takes to ...