Sentences with phrase «scant supply»

Something that has been in scant supply these past few months.

And indeed, such qualities are in scant supply.

Program limits on purchase price or location decrease an already scant supply of housing to choose from.

Despite mortgage rates hovering around three - year lows for most of the year, Yun says scant supply and swiftly rising home prices — which surpassed their all - time high last month2 — are creating an availability and affordability crunch that's preventing what should be a more robust pace of sales.

The higher chicken costs stem from a decline in chicken production in 2014 that led to scant supplies of wings.

Mitroi stands out for his moral / political energy — in scant supply in this play - it - safe year.

The crop is dependent on the amount of moisture received each year, and insufficient rainfall in the years preceeding flowering means a scant supply of nuts from a given tree.

If there are intelligent beings on Mars, they must find some means of conducting the scant supply of water from the poles to the centers of population.

The Avida team subsequently flooded some digital worlds with numbers and limited others to a scant supply, and the same pattern of diversity found in global ecosystems emerged.

Raimi's film is supposed to be about magic, but magic is in scant supply.

U. Worthwhile third party games were also in scant supply, though multiplatform games such as Injustice: Gods Among Us and Resident Evil Revelations did make it to the Wii U.

EXR +0.83 % and Public Storage have been able to push through stratospheric rent increases thanks partly to the scant supply of new development.

When combined with the scant supply levels for existing homes, these tight inventory conditions continue to hamper affordability in many of the largest cities in the country — especially those in the West.

«Rents and home prices outpacing incomes and scant supply in the affordable price range has been a prominent headwind for many prospective buyers this year,» says Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist.

Real - estate investment trusts like Life Storage Inc., Extra Space Storage Inc. and Public Storage have been able to push through stratospheric rent increases thanks partly to the scant supply of new development.