From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishowner-occupiedˌowner-ˈoccupied adjective BOWNhouses, apartments etc that are owner-occupied are lived in by the people who own them Most of these properties are owner-occupied. —owner-occupier noun [countable]
Examples from the Corpus
owner-occupied• Only four million homes were owner-occupied 40 years ago compared with 15 million today.• Only Torbay, with its high proportion of elderly and retired persons in owner-occupied accommodation, is more poorly provided.• While the scope for profitable investment in manufacturing industry was limited, the owner-occupied housing market seemed ideal for loan capital.• An extra £750m will be used before the end of 1992/93 to buy up some empty properties in the owner-occupied housing sector.• This is typically true in the case of taxes on land, personal property, and owner-occupied residences.• A large proportion of dwellings constructed beyond the cities since 1960 have been in the owner-occupied sector.• Two factors are mainly responsible for movement from the owner-occupied to local authority sectors - unemployment and marital breakdown.• In 1990, movers had settled in 12 percent of 5. 7 million owner-occupied units. 