As housing shortages dominate markets worldwide, Japan stands in stark contrast with a unique challenge: an oversupply of abandoned homes. Known as "akiyas," these empty properties number over 9 ...

The organization, founded in 2008, offers residents of Detroit, Michigan the opportunity to buy vacant, abandoned, or deteriorated houses and land at auction. Orr submitted a bid and won a three ...

Heather Hacker/Alamy Stock Photo At its peak, as many as 75,000 Soviet men, women and children once called this vast abandoned property home. The sprawling officers' residence, along with its vast ...

Like the TV show, Fixer Upper? As the city of Detroit went through bankruptcy many people lost their homes and left them ...