Dr. Philip Crowe:

Nobody actually knows. In UCD, we have a project funded by the national challenge fund. It is looking at a way to use technology and different data sets to try to understand better the likelihood of vacancy. We are effectively mirroring a technique used in France, which is bringing a lot of proxy and real data sets into a geographic information system, GIS, and using AI to find the likelihood of vacancy. We believe that will come up with some useful results.