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
When I was 11, we finally settled down and lived in the back of a redbrick duplex with patches of grass and sand—my backyard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 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
“We’re living in a duplex now,” my mother explained, and I sensed that we had come up in the world.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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
About 250 other structures — duplexes, apartment buildings, condominium complexes — were also destroyed or damaged, those officials said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026
They mostly invested in real estate — two commercial buildings and two residential duplexes.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2025
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
Others were big two-story duplexes, built as boardinghouses for bachelor miners in the booming 1920’s and later sectioned off as individual family dwellings during the Depression.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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