estate
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It marks a notable pivot for the brothers, who for years were focused on their father’s turf of real estate, golf and branding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The Los Angeles-based real estate company bought Quixote in 2022 for $360 million, saying at the time that the acquisition would address the growing demand for soundstage space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
You could contact a trust and estate attorney, which could cost you thousands of dollars in legal fees.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Unchecked real estate growth in Phoenix, and the appetite of California farmers for alfalfa -- a lucrative, highly water-intensive crop that feeds livestock -- are both sucking up resources.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Francesco will receive the whole estate, with all its land and livestock.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Moreover, he’s a chess-playing, gourmet cooking, crime fiction aficionado and jazz lover equally comfortable on the mean streets of East Daygo and in the lush life of La Jolla Farms estates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
While some sporting estates remain opposed to "rewilding", others have embraced some of the elements of ecological restoration.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Much less populous Iowa pursued 16,279 estates and recovered $25 million from 3,397 of them.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
When Anderson died more than a decade ago, the Connecticut estate tax kicked in for estates valued above $2 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Shall we make our counsels together against evil days, and repair our injuries with such good will that our estates shall both come to fairer flower than ever before?’
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
I mean, of course, of the elder branch, for there are swarms of the others, well to do and prosperous also, and with fine estated properties.
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever
Every class, from the estated proprietor to the humblest peasant, is loud in asserting that the story is an infamous falsehood.
From Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever
It was all the difference between rank and obscurity—between wealth and want—between the condition of an estated gentleman and the assumption of a mere pretender.
From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
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 James Godkin
Had Thady Macdermot had ready money, it might have been well built; but though an estated gentleman, he had none.
From The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Anthony Trollope
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