owner-occupier

owner-occupied | Business English

owner-occupied
adjective
 PROPERTY UKuk /ˌəʊnəˈɒkjʊpaɪd/ us /ˌoʊnɚˈɑːkjʊ-/
owner-occupied houses or apartments are lived in by people who have bought them, rather than people who pay rent:
owner-occupied homes/housingThe bill would eliminate tax breaks that favor owner-occupied homes over rented apartments.

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owner-occupied
At that point her material circumstances improved considerably (her new husband was a wealthy businessman) and they lived in owner-occupied houses or expensively rented flats.
It also distinguished the more stable owner-occupied and under-occupied 'middle ring' areas with older populations from the central areas with rented, shared and overcrowded accommodation.
The role of housing inheritance in selected owner-occupied societies.
It draws on interviews with 20 older widowed people who were living alone, half in owner-occupied accommodation and half in sheltered housing.
Structurally it is characterised by small owner-occupied farms with high levels of input from all family members.
These are retirement communities, often owner-occupied or cooperatives, sold primarily to the middle classes.
Prices were deflated to represent the situation in 1997-98 and used as written for owner-occupied property.
It is characterised by small owner-occupied farms with high inputs from multiple family members.
During the study it had around 50 members, most from a socially-mixed area with both council (public) housing and 1930s semi-detached owner-occupied houses.
These were areas of owner-occupied housing inhabited by lower middle and working class families.
Seven informants had lived in owner-occupied properties since marrying.
Individuals living in owner-occupied housing have lower rates of low-income incidence than do people in rented accommodation, especially compared with people living in social housing.
However, most studies of consumption-based asset pricing21 use consumption data that include the implicit service flow from owner-occupied housing.
An even greater variation occurs in the market value of owner-occupied property.
It was called a tax on short-term speculative gains, and covered securities realized within a six-month period and land sales (other than owner-occupied houses) over three years.
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