duplex
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In 2004, Stiles reportedly paid $1.995 million for a three-bedroom duplex overlooking Stuyvesant Square, ultimately selling the roughly 2,081-square-foot property for $2.7 million a decade later.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Before that, about 10 years ago, he rented a room in a duplex for $333; that same room now rents for $900, he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
“The biggest piece is affordability,” says Rachel Lange-Mills, president of Lange Real Estate, which has built duplex communities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
Billionaire Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin has reportedly expanded his enormous international property portfolio with the addition of a $38 million duplex apartment inside a storied New York City apartment building.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026
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
Housing reforms that increase supply, such as allowing smaller lots in new subdivisions, permitting duplexes, townhomes, and backyard cottages on existing lots, and changing zoning laws to allow housing nearer to jobs, are land-use issues.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
The measure defines a big institutional investor as an entity that controls 350 homes or more, and its definition of a single-family home includes duplexes along with traditional detached houses.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
Fueling the anxiety: a raft of recent California laws and bills that make it easier to build duplexes and apartment buildings in single-family neighborhoods like Altadena.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
Relatedly, duplexes get to use the state’s simple single-family residential code instead of the more demanding guidelines that apply to apartment buildings.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2025
She wanted to show us the other side of Marguerite Cartwright Avenue, where the seasoned professors lived, with the duplexes hemmed in by gravely driveways.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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