The vacancy rate in Dublin (in Ireland) is 1.6%, but I was there 2 weeks ago and there are so many empty buildings - some of them empty at least since I lived t

The vacancy rate in Dublin (in Ireland) is 1.6%, but I was there 2 weeks ago and there are so many empty buildings - some of them empty at least since I lived there back in the 90s/00s. I'm not sure that vacancy rate reflects the reality of a city's unproductive building stock