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was also fairly high in 2008: approximately 10% of all the housing stock was a holiday or second home, but the majority of these were owned by French. There were approximately 300,000 homes, or 1% of the total housing stock which were the property of owners from abroad. Of this percentage 28% were
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housing stock, were holiday or second homes, compared with 2.7% in 1990, and 1.9% in 1980. 26% of all these are located in the north-eastern states, with approximately 250,199 (7% of all the second homes in the U.S.) located in
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948:154,495
922:250,199
909:115,439
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1018:, and
1000:38,326
974:25,565
961:42,541
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331:11,857
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583:1.8%
573:2.2%
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396:6,266
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383:7,074
373:2.0%
370:2,805
360:2.1%
357:7,583
347:3.0%
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305:7,906
295:5.6%
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