ghost home
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.40 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Example Sentences
- "The house is an example of what is popularly referred to as a "ghost home," a property owned by a nonresident (sometimes noncitizen) who has no plans on ever moving in."
- "So then we get to the deliberate ghost home investors. How do we tell that the empty flat has been purposely left unoccupied?"
- "The outcome of the new tax is being watched closely as cities around the world struggle with the rise of so-called ghost homes: scarcely used residences in prime urban locations seen by investors as a safe way to park their cash."
Inflected Forms
Phrases
ghost hotel
park one's money
Frequently Paired Words
ghost hotel
park one's money