The national vacancy rate is so high , why don't they gain some additional rental by renting?It seems that it doesn't prevent the sale of housing.

全国的空房率这么高，为什么他们不出租赚一些额外的租金，似乎这样并不妨碍房屋的出售。

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In New York City, the vacancy rate improved by 0.1 percentage point for the second straight quarter, but around 60% of rental buildings dropped rents in the fourth quarter from the previous quater.

纽约市空置率连续第二个季度下降0.1个百分点，但大约60%的出租型楼房第四季度的房租价格较前一季度下降。

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Currently, Shanghai's industrial plant maintenance quarter of the average rent growth, or even some hot regions consecutive months rental vacancy rate of zero phenomenon.

目前，上海工业厂房平均租金保持季度性地增长，部分热租地区甚至连续几个月出现空置率为零的现象。

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The city's 9.4 percent unemployment rate isn't particularly high, but there are thousands of units of deteriorating rental property near the city's center, helping to push the rental vacancy rate to 16 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to the Census Department, down from 21 percent at mid-year.

MSN: Orlando, Las Vegas top the list of emptiest U.S. cities

That mistaken prediction pushed Orlando's rental vacancy rate to 23.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, second only to Dayton, Ohio, among the nation's 75 largest metropolitan areas surveyed by the U.S. Census Department.

MSN: Orlando, Las Vegas top the list of emptiest U.S. cities