duplex
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Officials have red-tagged two properties, including a duplex with three units.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
When I was 10, in 1958, we moved to a small duplex in downtown Phoenix.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
“I lived in a duplex with my grandparents and saw them downstairs every morning,” Elsesser says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Living in Steve's small Grant Park duplex allowed me to question him nonstop about the complex issues and challenges our cases and clients presented.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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
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
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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