occupancy
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Welltower spent more than $40 billion over the following six years to acquire tens of thousands of senior-housing units, while many rivals retreated when the pandemic caused senior-facility occupancy rates to plummet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
A potential stumbling block to the proposals was that Highland Council believed the barracks would need to be licensed as a house of multiple occupancy.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
The incremental dollars from rising occupancy are “crazy high margin significant.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Assessing a CCRC’s financial health involves checking metrics like 200 days cash on hand, 90% occupancy, net operating margin, and debt service coverage ratio of 1.3 to 1.4 times.
From Barron's ● Jun. 20, 2026
That would come in three more years, when the camp’s occupancy maxed out.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
Net absorption, a measure of new occupancies minus new vacancies, fell to 3.5 million square feet in 2025, down from a pandemic-era high of 4.8 million in 2021, according to Newmark.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
Middle East hotel occupancies initially rose due to evacuations but are now weak; rising oil prices pose a broader risk to air travel.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
She said much of the available accommodation is in "houses of multiple occupancies with shared amenities", but "this position is reflected nationally".
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2025
But hotel occupancies by business travelers are low in markets like Minneapolis, San Francisco and Houston.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2022
The notable scarcity of roofing timbers in the ruins can probably be explained by the hypothesis of successive occupancies and subsequent or repeated use of material difficult to obtain.
From The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Mindeleff, Cosmos
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