One person it did not dawn on recently is Alex Kerr, an author and Japanologist originally from Maryland, who became an akiya owner in 1973 when he acquired an abandoned country house (known as a ...

Once that tax amnesty period is over, McWilliams proposes the State should "impose a crushing dereliction levy" which, if ...

especially considering that the country has 8.5 million akiya, or abandoned houses, in rural areas for sale. It helped that Evan also speaks Japanese, having studied the language in college.

In this new series, Hugh meets homeowners who are transforming a cowshed on a ruined grand estate, a rotten farmhouse with a ...

This is the second fire at that abandoned house in the last five weeks. The number of fires in vacant buildings in Seattle reached the hundreds in recent years. The Seattle Fire Department (SFD ...

a derelict vernacular cottage, a Burren herder’s hut, an old grocery shop, tumbling cabins and a depopulated village’s former Post House, across the country from Cork to Donegal. In this week ...

The planned regeneration of two derelict Victorian houses, bought by Dublin City Council almost six years ago for €700,000, has had to be stalled after it emerged their facades were “crumbling ...

Almost 4,000 council homes were left vacant last year while just under 60,000 people languish on local authority housing wait lists, Extra.ie has learned.