I write novels and make visual art from keyboard marks and negative space. Across forms, my work is after one thing: the translation of grace into language.
Japan Ireland Akita Leitrim Akiya Derelict Cottages Rural Resettlement Rural Migration China Grants
Two akiya in Akita and two derelict cottages in Leitrim, from $15,500, plus Japan’s rice cuts, Ireland’s rural resettlement and China’s showcase villages. Here in Los Angeles, the yards are full of fruit. Passion fruit is plentiful on vines strewn throughout the city, and citrus and
Spain · Málaga · Genalguacil · Pueblo Museo · Aragón · Torralba de Ribota · Pueblos en Arte · Italy · Sicily ·
Can art bring a village back? Four houses in Spain and Sicily's art towns, from €4,000 How powerful is art? These days in the United States one might not be so sure, but if we look back throughout history the arts are a cultural driving force. This
japan, italy, bulgaria, ireland, greece, distressed properties
Six houses near the water, from €29,000 in Bulgaria to a whole island in Donegal When we started writing Remnant, we sent it to our friend Neha Choksi, who said Is this a place for dreaming? With all of this week's houses located within reach of a
23 of them: Italy · Campania · Irpinia · Avellino · Zungoli · case a 1 euro · 1 euro houses · manifestazione di interesse · bonus ristrutturazione · Borghi più Belli d'Italia ·
Zungoli, Italia's €1 houses in 2026, plus four open market ones from €13,000 In south central Italy, up in the Irpinia hills of Campania, Zungoli is village ranked as one of I Borghi più Belli d'Italia (The most beautiful villages of Italy). With a population
Scotland · Greenock · Inverclyde · repopulation · relocation grant · depopulation · Cork · Buttevant · Molise
Greenock's £400 Relocation Grant in 2026, plus Six Houses in Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Croatia and Japan from £8,000 There's a top floor, one-bedroom flat with double glazed windows and a share of the communal back garden going to auction in Greenock, Scotland on Thursday,
Buying Property on the Greek Border Islands in 2026: Law 1892/1990, the Defence Committee, and 764 Houses Under €90,000 On September 2, Turkiye's President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, told reporters that Greece should "turn back from the wrong path it has taken and stop militarizing the
Italy · Abruzzo · Pratola Peligna · 1 euro houses · case a 1 euro · Sicily · Japan · Gunma · akiya · moving abroad
One Japanese village is recruiting young people from the Peruvian Amazon, a comune in the Abruzzo mountains, plus three houses in Gunma. The "most graying" village in Japan is seeking to repopulate its dwindling numbers with young people from the Amazon. In Nanmoku, up in the mountains of
Italy · Tuscany · Arezzo · Lucignano · Val di Chiana · bando · TARI · IMU · casale · ruin · Japan · akiya · kominka ·
A €70,000 house with no heating near the door to the underworld, an €85,000 stone house with no electricity on Calypso's island, a €70,000 ruin on Ithaca, and more... The Odyssey opens on a relatable note for anyone who has ever moved to a faraway
Four stone houses on Spain's pilgrim routes from €93,000 — a medieval house in Mondoñedo, a restored complex where the Camino passes by the front door, and more. Last year, the official count from the cathedral’s Pilgrim’s Office of people who walked the Camino into the
If you read this newsletter, you are a person who has at least daydreamed about buying a piece of another country because it is beautiful and cheaper than home.
Emptiness, it turns out, is everyone's project right now. There are vacant houses across the globe everywhere, and almost everyone in charge has decided it is a problem worth real money to solve. They just disagree, fascinatingly, about how.