Is this the solution to Japan's glut of empty homes? - FT.com

posted by  Yubi | 8 years, 5 months ago

It was once a treasured family home, but by the time Katsutoshi Arai bought it the house was empty - a rubbish-strewn, fly-infested blight on a small Japanese neighbourhood. "It was overflowing with garbage - it made you want to vomit," says Arai, president of the estate agency Katitas, as he recounts what his staff went through to fix it up.

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