15% OF HOMES ARE EMPTY.Byline: By MICHELLE MICHELLE Mid-Infrared Echelle Spectrograph O'KEEFFE ALMOST 220,000 homes are lying vacant throughout Ireland, it was revealed yesterday. There are 41,600 apartments and 174,900 houses sitting empty as the reality of over-building in the past five years starts to hit home. It is believed 15 per cent of housing is vacant. Central Statistic statistic, n a value or number that describes a series of quantitative observations or measures; a value calculated from a sample. statistic a numerical value calculated from a number of observations in order to summarize them. Office figures show there are an extra 50,000 vacant holiday homes and 30,000 other temporarily empty places "Empty Places" is the 19th episode of season 7 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Plot synopsis Summary The citizens of Sunnydale flee en masse and Sunnydale becomes a ghost town. . Planning expert Fergal McCabe called the figures "surprisingly high". He added: "It is probably a combination of a few things, including investor purchases that can't be let or sold. "We have a healthy economy and people looking for houses but it looks like we wasted a lot of money building them in the wrong place. It was a waste of expenditure." |
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