duplex
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Actress Julianne Moore recently opened the doors of her gorgeous West Village duplex penthouse for an apartment tour with Architectural Digest.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
“We now live in a large duplex with our landlady and her daughter,” Maggie tells me.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
When I was 10, in 1958, we moved to a small duplex in downtown Phoenix.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
“I lived in a duplex with my grandparents and saw them downstairs every morning,” Elsesser says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 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
They mostly invested in real estate — two commercial buildings and two residential duplexes.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2025
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
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
It rose deftly from a small neighborhood of duplexes, laundromats, and mom-and-pop restaurants, mostly Korean and soul food.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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