occupancy
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However, he said growth in international student numbers had slowed, while new accommodation continued to come onto the market, leading to lower occupancy rates.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
America’s office market has seen four straight quarters of occupancy gains, JLL Research said, noting that “cities and office buildings are active again and commuting activity continues to increase.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
The occupancy and property taxes would double or triple the Maysville town budget.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Hotel occupancy was down three percent in the quarter to end-June, TUI said, an improvement from the six percent fall seen in the previous six months.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
On the immediate local front, reports showed that rental rates for apartments in Odessa had dropped 10 percent and occupancy rates 8 percent, boding disaster for a market that was woefully overbuilt from the boom.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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
“But we’re running pretty weak occupancies right now,” he added.
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
Mr. Freitag said the lower hotel occupancies in some cities may reflect a lower return-to-office rate in those places, which reduces the ability to have in-person business meetings.
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 Cosmos Mindeleff
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