duplex
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A duplex boom is attracting middle-income earners to the Midwestern city.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
We lived in a two-story duplex built in 1899, where I enjoyed sitting on our enclosed porch watching thunderstorms and the leaves change on trees.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
“If you want to build a 3,000-square-foot house and a 700-square-foot ADU, it’s easier. But if you want to build two homes as a duplex, it’s harder,” Trauss said.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025
But cleaning a house that size was a massive undertaking, and it seemed impossible to keep track of everyone’s belongings, as compared with when they lived in a smaller duplex.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 21, 2025
But as soon as he steps through the front door of their duplex in Harper Woods, Father Mike suffers an immediate drop in status.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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