Idiom
ghost home
Meaning
A residence intentionally kept vacant by an absentee owner, especially a foreign investor, as a financially safe asset to be liquidated at a convenient time.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That empty house is just a ghost home for an investor.”
“The neighborhood has many ghost homes that sit empty while local families struggle to find affordable places to live.”
“Urban planners worry that the proliferation of ghost homes, held primarily as speculative assets by overseas entities, artificially inflates property values and hollows out the community.”
Examples
simple
“That empty house is just a ghost home for an investor.”
contextual
“The neighborhood has many ghost homes that sit empty while local families struggle to find affordable places to live.”
complex
“Urban planners worry that the proliferation of ghost homes, held primarily as speculative assets by overseas entities, artificially inflates property values and hollows out the community.”
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