Sentence examples for ghost apartment from inspiring English sources

A ghost apartment is a housing unit that is owned by a foreign citizen and is empty throughout most of the year (that is, not inhabited by either the owner or renters).

Over the last decade, as globalization processes have intensified, ghost apartments have become a worldwide phenomenon, especially in global cities.

In addition, each city's unique characteristics may affect the influence of ghost apartments on urban diversity.

This study uses three measures to examine the influence of ghost apartments on urban diversity and urban residents: social mix, land-use diversity, and economic diversity.

It didn't help, he says, when a woman came out screaming that there was a ghost in her apartment.

Just as you've resigned yourself to being alone forever, you'll discover a ghost haunting your apartment.

By the same token, in suggesting that the banking industry was threatened by the proliferation of so-called "ghost estates" – luxury apartment developments that are largely empty – Peston again blindsided himself.

A well-produced and elegant little book, "Seven Touches" is a set of stories in which music plays a transformative, often mystical role in the lives of the characters: an organ grinder's abrasive melodies cause a woman to see visions of others' deaths; an antique music box summons up ghosts in the apartment of an old widower.

Cassavetes gives her one of the film's great virtuoso pieces, a long tracking shot of her alone in her apartment with Ghost, in which she gives her all — indeed, more than she should.

Mortenson's South Bronx is a ghost town of abandoned apartment blocks and rubble-filled lots, with no sign of human presence save what the vandals have left behind.

A University of North Carolina at Greensboro student initially believed a ghost was haunting her apartment.