Vacant House Guardians, a vacant house management subsco, Vacant House Guardians, a vacant house management sub-school, will open franchise stores in Hyogo and Kagoshima Prefectures in January 2024. franchise stores opened simultaneously in Hyogo and Kagoshima prefectures in January 2024!

Vacant House Guardians, a franchise system for vacant house management operated by Estate Promotion Kitakyushu (Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture; Representative Director: Tatsuo Kitajima), a company with a proven track record in providing vacant house management services, will open franchise stores, Vacant House Guardians Kobe (Location: Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture) and Vacant House Guardians Kagoshima (Location: Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture), on January 4, 2024 (Thursday). Guardians of Vacant Homes Kobe" (Location: Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture) and "Guardians of Vacant Homes Kagoshima" (Location: Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture) will open simultaneously on Thursday, January 4, 2024.

Vacant House Guardians logo

Current and Future Trends in the Vacant House Management Business

Last year, the "Act on Special Measures concerning Promotion of Measures for Empty Houses" was revised.

Vacant houses that are in danger of collapsing if left unattended are called "Specified Vacant Houses" and measures have been taken to deal with them. In addition, municipalities will be able to cancel the special exception for residential property tax on the land of a vacant house that has received a recommendation (the property tax will be increased sixfold if the land is less than 200 m2).

In other words, the measures that were previously applicable only to specified vacant houses have been expanded to include unmanaged vacant houses.

The revision raises the standard for the management status of vacant houses and increases the burden of management on owners, etc. Therefore, it is expected that requests for vacant house management services will increase from sons and daughters who live outside the prefecture and cannot manage vacant houses themselves, and from elderly people and women who live in the prefecture but cannot cut grass or do other work. We anticipate an increase in the number of requests from sons and daughters who live outside the prefecture and are unable to manage their own homes.

In addition, it is said that next year, the number of elderly people aged 75 or older will exceed one-fourth of the population in Japan. This is the so-called "2025 problem," which will cause various problems due to increased demand for medical care and long-term care.

The average life expectancy in Japan is 81.41 years for men and 87.45 years for women, and healthy life expectancy, which refers to the state of being able to live independently without depending on daily and continuous medical care and nursing care, is 72.68 years for men and 75.38 years for women.

(Both as of 2019, from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's "Healthy Life Expectancy in 2048: https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/10904750/000872952.pdf")

Demand for vacant house management agents is expected to increase dramatically in the future, given that the largest number of requests for management are received from children of elderly people living alone at the time their homes become vacant due to hospitalization or moving to an institution.

Vacant House Guardians is a franchise system operated by Estate Promotion Kitakyushu Ltd., which has been providing vacant house management services in the entire Fukuoka Prefecture area since 2013.

The directly managed Kitakyushu branch and the first franchise branch, the Yamaguchi-Nishi branch (located in Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture), will be joined by the Kobe and Kagoshima branches, which will begin operations in 2024, for a total of four branches in the future.

Vacant House Guardians will continue to increase the number of franchise stores, mainly in the Kyushu and Chugoku regions where demand for vacant house management is high, and in the future, we hope to build a position as the top vacant house management agency in Japan, backed by its network.

■Availability of vacant house management services at low rates

The term "abandoned vacant house" does not refer to a house that is left unoccupied, but rather to a house that is not properly managed. However, there are many owners who, for a variety of reasons, are unable to immediately dispose of, sell, or put the property to use.

Vacant House Guardians is a so-called "vacant house management agency" that acts on behalf of such owners and their families to properly manage vacant houses for a certain period of time. In Japan, where the population is declining, aging, declining birthrate, and nuclear families, it is difficult to stop the increase in the number of vacant houses only through the efforts of the national government and local governments. In order to solve the problem of vacant houses, "owners of vacant houses have an obligation to properly manage them. If they cannot manage it themselves, they should outsource it to a contractor. This concept needs to be generalized.

The problem was that there was a gap between the minimum fee that the private company, a vacant house management agency, wanted and the amount that the owner was willing to pay for the maintenance of the vacant house.

Therefore, Estate Promotion Kitakyushu streamlined its operations as much as possible, offering services for as low as 3,500 yen per month.

We have built a new vacant house management business that undertakes the management of numerous vacant houses by providing a one-stop shop for all the various needs of vacant houses.

We started this franchise system with the aim of spreading vacant house management throughout Japan by providing all of our know-how to other companies.

Features of Vacant House Guardians

Simple service menu

The vacant house guardians service menu allows you to choose the service content just by looking at the homepage, and you can grasp the monthly fee.

(1) All services are charged at a fixed rate.

(2) Hourly rates for interior cleaning, mowing, etc., with no "separate estimate" based on square footage, condition, etc.

(3) In addition to the basic service, which is the minimum required work, we offer a full menu of options to accurately respond to customer requests and prevent unnecessary expenses. 2.

2. contract work that does not require a face-to-face meeting

Customers who consider outsourcing management often live far away from the location of the vacant house, and as a result, the distance between them and the vacant house management company is also far.

Vacant House Guardians allows customers to request information or submit a tentative application through a form on the website, and also allows contracts to be signed by mail, so there is no need for customers to return to their hometowns.

3. web-based reports

While most vacant house management status reports are sent in writing or by e-mail, Guardians of Vacant Houses provides a free system that allows you to check the status of your vacant house and work anytime, anywhere by creating a dedicated page on the Internet with a password that can be viewed only by the contractor. The system is free of charge and allows contractors to check the status of vacant houses and work anytime, anywhere.

Features of the Web Report

(1) Many images can be attached.

(2) Large, clear images allow you to check the situation.

(3) Information can be shared among parents, children, siblings, etc. living in different locations.

(4) The situation can be checked even from overseas.

(5) You can check the past history of the house with a single click.

Vacant House Guardians Service Menu and Fee Structure

＜Basic service

3,500 yen

<Optional Services

(1) Room condition check service: 1,000 yen

(2) Periodic room cleaning service: 3,000 yen

(3) Ventilation service: free of charge

(4) Water ventilation service: free of charge

(5) Plus One Service: 3,000 yen

(6) Site weeding service: 3,500-6,000 yen

All prices are for one month and include consumption tax.

Please refer to the website for details.

http://www.akiya-g.jp

Vacant House Guardians General Headquarters

Operated by: Estate Promotion Kitakyushu Ltd.

Representative: Tatsuo Kitajima

Location: 1-8-8-8 Matsuyama, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka

TEL : 093-693-0020

MAIL : estatepk@nifty.com

URL ： http://www.akiya-g.jp/fc/ *Franchisee recruitment information

Brief history of the representative of Estate Promotion Kitakyushu

Tatsuo Kitajima

Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1964.

In 2001, he founded Estate Promotion Kitakyushu, a real estate brokerage company.

In 2013, after a six-month trial operation, he began providing vacant house management services.

In 2016, he was appointed as General Manager of Vacant House Guardians with the start of its operation.

Participated as an expert member of the Housing Distribution Promotion Council, which was selected by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism as a "vacant house management and other infrastructure enhancement promotion project.

He has appeared on TV, newspapers, magazines, and other media, and lectured at seminars.

He has made more than 700 paid visits to vacant houses per year (as of 2023), probably the highest number in Japan for an individual.

Vacant House Guardians Kobe

Business Area: Kobe City, Ashiya City, Akashi City, Kakogawa City, Takasago City, Harima Town, Inami Town

　　　　　　 Harimacho, Inamicho, Miki City, Ono City, Kato-shi

Operation: Realty Masashi

Representative: Masahiro Nakano

Location : 2-15-17 Miyashita, Nishi-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo

TEL : 080-5340-7683

FAX : 078-925-6015

MAIL : naka358day@outlook.jp

URL ： http://www.akiya-g.jp/kobe/

Vacant house guardians Kagoshima

Business area: Kagoshima city, Hioki city, Ichiki-kushikino city, Minami-Satsuma city, Minami-Kyushu city, Ibusuki city, Makurazaki city, Kirishima city, Kagoshima city

　　　　　　 Ibusuki city, Makurazaki city, Kirishima city, Aira city, Yusui town, Satsumasendai city

　　　　　　 Satsumasendai City (except for Koshijima Islands), Izumi City, Isa City, Akune City, Satsuma Town, Nagashima Town

　　　　　　 Satsuma Town, Nagashima Town, Kanoya City, Soo City, Shibushi City, Tarumi City, Osaki Town, Higashikushira Town

　　　　　　 Osaki Town, Higashikushira Town, Kimotsuki Town, Nishikie Town, Minami-Osumi Town

(Building contractor's license: Governor of Kagoshima Prefecture (1) No. 6556)

Representative: Hirohiro Yamashita

Address: 2-15-16 Kozan, Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture

TEL : 099-814-7671

FAX ： 099-814-7279

MAIL ： yama.takken@outlook.jp

URL ： http://www.akiya-g.jp/kagoshima/