estate
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“A once-in-a-generation Hollywood Hills estate, this extraordinary 6.5-acre gated compound offers exceptional privacy, breathtaking panoramic views, and an unrivaled legacy of ownership,” the listing reads.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
"Their biggest kryptonite is real estate cost," York warned, pointing to a brutal Manhattan retail landscape where average asking rents are between $350 and $700 per square foot.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Barely a week after they hoisted the Lombardi Trophy, the Allen estate announced that the team was up for sale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
It passed despite a massive opposition campaign from corporate, industrial and real estate interests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
Then, a year and a half after Bobby’s death, Marilyn and Jinky traveled to Iceland again, this time to file a claim to his estate.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
A year later, Blair referred to some estates as "sinking ships".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
The company is in active conversations with current writers and some estates, Hurowitz said, though he declined to name specific authors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
During previous visits, Harry has declined accommodation on royal estates, according to media reports.
From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026
That property business, including estates in the north of England and property in central London, provides much of the monarch's personal income.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
He'd returned from Rosby to deliver a fresh levy of spearmen recruited from Lord Cyles's estates and resume his command of the City Watch.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
But Thaddeus, otherwise Thady Macdermot, being an estated gentleman, must have a gentleman's residence on his estate, and the house of Ballycloran was accordingly built.
From The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Trollope, Anthony
There is many an estated lord couldn't reach you out a fourpenny bit.
From New Irish Comedies by Gregory, Lady
In connection with each of these settlements Pynar uses the phrase, 'I find planted and estated.'
From The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times by Godkin, James
In fact, Gleeson stood before the public as a kind of guardian of estated property,—the providence of dowagers, widows, and younger children!
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
At the institution many of the chief estated gentlemen of the kingdom were selected for the dignity.
From Collections and Recollections by Russell, George William Erskine
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