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How Shrinking Birth Rates Reshape the Real Estate Market
In this episode of The Demographics Podcast, Lucas and Luna drill into one of the most visible knock-on effects of falling birth rates: how a shrinking number of young households is quietly resetting the residential real estate market. Drawing on the case of Japan's aging suburbs and the rise of 'akiya' — abandoned homes — they trace a chain that runs from smaller families to excess housing stock to a repricing of location itself. They also look at how developers and municipalities in Europe and North America are beginning to adapt, from building smaller units to converting…
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