Living with ghosts: The rising popularity of 'death rooms' in Japan soranews24.com

However, real estate agencies are seeing a surge in people specifically seeking these kinds of ‘death rooms’.
That may sound horribly morbid, but usually it’s not out of a desire to be close to death.
However, these days real estate agents are finding that people with less economic means are willing and even eager to live in these cheaper places.
Their incident properties are half the usual rent for the first one to two years, and as with UR’s other properties the rooms don’t require a deposit or a renewal fee.
It’s only if they are pronounced to have died in the room that the owner is legally obliged to disclose the death.