This paper clarifies issues on vacant homes and municipal measures to survey and cope with owner-unknown homes through the nationwide questionnaire survey and the case study on Maebashi city. The results are as follows: 1)The trend differed depending on the population size of municipalities, such as the target area of survey, and the method of grasping the information for contacting each owner. 2)76.6% of municipalities that have owner unknown homes, and 72.5% of municipalities have inheritance abandoned homes, but only 15.7% of municipalities have applied the inheritance property manager system.
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