overbuilt

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“If you got to a point where you overbuilt, you could have that as an option,” he told analysts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

He weathered the Great Recession, from 2007 to 2009, when Nevada led the nation in foreclosures, bankruptcies soared and tumbleweeds blew through Las Vegas’ many overbuilt, financially underwater subdivisions.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2025

Only an overbuilt city can offer tenants security and freedom.

From Slate • Sep. 10, 2024

But it overbuilt — and later began shuttering projects and renting out space in some of its warehouses.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2023

On the immediate local front, reports showed that rental rates for apartments in Odessa had dropped 10 percent and occupancy rates 8 percent, boding disaster for a market that was woefully overbuilt from the boom.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger