{"id":396739,"date":"2018-01-31T05:25:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T05:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=396739"},"modified":"2018-01-30T20:31:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T20:31:06","slug":"occupancy-rate-new-houses-40-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=396739","title":{"rendered":"Occupancy rate for new houses is 40% [Infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a time that Ghana is grappling with solving her worsening housing deficit, it is emerging that some property developers are also finding difficulty in getting occupants for their properties.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, most of them have begun counting their losses as the continuous delay compounds their interests to be paid on loans contracted from banks.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics available to\u00a0<strong>Citi Business News<\/strong>\u00a0also indicate that only four out of every ten new houses are occupied within a year.<\/p>\n<p>In the third of our new series dubbed,\u00a0<strong>Ghana\u2019s housing crisis\u00a0<\/strong>which focuses on the industry&#8217;s problems and how they can be solved, Pius Amihere Eduku examines the low occupancy levels among residential properties in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>The infographic below has more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-81089 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/citibusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Infographic-unoccupied-585x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Infographic unoccupied\" width=\"585\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Pius Amihere Eduku\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time that Ghana is grappling with solving her worsening housing deficit, it is emerging that some property developers are also finding difficulty in getting occupants for their properties. As a result, most of them have begun counting their losses as the continuous delay compounds their interests to be paid on loans contracted from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":396050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,171,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-local-economy","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/396050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}