duplex

“We now live in a large duplex with our landlady and her daughter,” Maggie tells me.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

In June, real-estate investor Justin Smith closed on a duplex in Roscoe, Ill. — about 90 miles west of Chicago — for $250,000.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

“I lived in a duplex with my grandparents and saw them downstairs every morning,” Elsesser says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 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 V.C.’s walls were not very high; I could see the big duplex that nestled behind a canopy of trees with greenish-yellow leaves.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Economists say duplexes are the kind of “light-touch density” that allows cities to add more housing for middle-class families without entirely transforming a neighborhood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

This month, the City Council hiked trash removal fees to nearly $56 per month, up from $36.32 for single-family homes and duplexes and $24.33 for three- and four-unit apartment properties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 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