Sentence examples for standing empty for from inspiring English sources

A 50% empty homes premium on properties standing empty for two years has been available to councils since last April.

Rents are edging up again (although in parts of London, flats are standing empty for longer), and house prices are rising even faster.

The Lib Dems think demand for second homes pushes up prices for cash-strapped locals, who also complain about houses standing empty for much of the year.

Ifo 2, which has 116 brick houses, had been standing empty for months because of growing local opposition to the influx of refugees.

The threestorey building was built back in the late 1990s by LG Electronics but never used by the firm, standing empty for over a decade.

It was demolished in 1966, after being damaged in a fire and standing empty for years; virtually all the hospital's records disappeared with the rubble.

I met people in church halls, unions, universities, coffee shops that lefties aren't supposed to go to (Starbucks, even Shoreditch Grind, the very nidus of scenester privilege), in homes and council flats standing empty, waiting for developers.

After 15 years of standing empty and, for many residents and merchants of Montclair, as a symbol of governmental ineptitude, a wrecking ball finally smashed into Hahne's department store, a 114,000-square-foot boxy building a block from Bloomfield Avenue.

Thousands of newly built residential houses are standing empty, rotting, waiting for buyers, and Luzhkov and his gang are waiting for God knows what but do not drop the prices".

By the time a temporary roof was installed in 1903 the adobe building had been standing empty and unmaintained for hundreds of years.

Even with the best intentions in mind, bad management is a primary reason for properties standing empty.