duplex
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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 deal for the duplex condo at 80 Clarkson is likely one of New York’s most expensive this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
A duplex fad is spreading among the city’s developers.
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
Mom’s car was parked in front of the duplex, but it didn’t feel like anyone was home.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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
On the housing front, rows of affordable duplexes are sprouting up for young families, retirees and empty-nesters next to single-family homes and farmland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
They mostly invested in real estate — two commercial buildings and two residential duplexes.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2025
As duplexes, the buildings were permitted in neighborhoods of low-slung bungalows—but exempt from size limits that governed only single-family homes.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 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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