Very few council homes, large
numbers of owner occupiers, pretty prosperous, very white.
Not exact matches
Perhaps the purchasers are mainly
owner -
occupiers, but there is also a chance that there is a disproportionately large
number of new investors being pulled into the housing market with promises
of high returns through such things as rental guarantees and negative gearing.
The study sample was found to be representative
of the general population
of the United Kingdom at the start
of data collection, except for a smaller proportion
of mothers from ethnic minorities compared to the study location (4.1 % vs. 7.6 %), a higher proportion
of married or cohabiting mothers, and a greater
number of owner -
occupier families (Boyd et al. 2013).
«While amenity markets such as the Okanagan and the Kootenays attract a sizable
number of recreation and investment buyers, Vancouver Island is overwhelmingly an
owner -
occupier market, meaning the region is less vulnerable to wide swings in demand that is characteristic
of recreation and investor markets.»