Fifteen years after being built the average home in Japan is worth nothing, creating a perverse market where construction is booming but housing barely increases It's time to move to a new city. You look at houses you might want to buy and finally settle on one that's in the right location and appeals to you. But in Japan, that appeal hardly matters: the average home only lasts for 30 years. That's...
Japan's disposable home culture is an environmental and financial headache
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