the practice of filling low-lying land, building embankments / the practice of buying small parcels of land to consolidate and resell / rigging the price of land for sale
Sono sai, kin'yū kikan ya kigyō ga tayori ni shita no ga iwayuru “jiageya” de aru. “Jiage” to wa ippan ni fudōsan gyōsha ga tochi nado o kōnyū suru koto o sasu ga, baburu-ki ni wa, seitō na kenri ni motozuite tatemono ya shikichi o shiyō shite iru mono ni tai shite, sono ishi ni han shite korera no akewatashi o yōkyū suru futō na “jiage” ga ōkō shita.When doing so, financial institutions and companies relied on so-called jiageya. Jiage generally refers to the practice of real estate agents purchasing land and so on, but during the economic bubble, there was a proliferation of unscrupulous jiage in which agents demanded that people who were rightfully using buildings and land surrender such properties against their will.
