A vacant house in Daejeon. A brand new nationwide map will present the standing and reuse instances of such properties. Courtesy of Daejeon Metropolis
A brand new on-line platform will permit customers to simply view the distribution of deserted houses throughout the nation and discover methods to repurpose them.
The Ministry of the Inside and Security introduced on Tuesday that it’ll revamp and launch a web site referred to as „Binjibae“ (which roughly interprets to “Love for Vacant Houses”) in partnership with the Korea Actual Property Board.
The location gives nationwide information on vacant homes, together with coverage info, redevelopment statistics, and reuse case research.
Beforehand, such info was accessible via the Small-scale and Vacant Home Data e-Portal, however the brand new web site presents a extra user-friendly construction, separating key classes reminiscent of maps of vacant properties, redevelopment data, sensible utilization examples, and coverage paperwork.
Because of this, customers can now entry the outcomes of the 2024 nationwide survey on vacant houses at a look utilizing an interactive map. The web site additionally shares information on native governments’ redevelopment efforts, together with before-and-after photographs, undertaking places, and progress by undertaking sort, serving as a helpful reference for future vacant home renewal tasks.
To additional encourage transactions, the positioning will record vacant houses confirmed on the market or lease by their house owners. Authorities are at the moment reviewing a plan to develop a “vacant home transaction assist service” that may permit consumers to simply join with property house owners.
The ministry plans to increase providers in collaboration with an interagency process drive and the Korea Actual Property Board. Future updates could embody predictive instruments to anticipate the prevalence and unfold of vacant properties, together with suggestions for post-redevelopment use.
“Our aim is to hyperlink vacant home information with different indicators reminiscent of inhabitants decline, mortality charges, and housing growing old, whereas additionally integrating it with exterior life-style infrastructure information,” a ministry official stated.
In keeping with information from the state-run Korea Analysis Institute for Building Coverage, primarily based on Statistics Korea’s newest housing census, the variety of vacant houses in Korea reached 1.53 million on the finish of 2023. It marks a 5.7 p.c rise from 2022 and a 44 p.c enhance from 2015.
The determine had steadily climbed from 1.07 million in 2015 to 1.52 million in 2019, earlier than dipping barely to 1.39 million in 2021.
This text from the Hankook Ilbo, a sister publication of The Korea Instances, is translated by a generative AI and edited by The Korea Instances.
