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
“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
While a number of luxury apartments are rising downtown, developers are also building duplex communities in the suburbs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
The Tuesday after the Halloween party, Mrs. Richardson stopped by the duplex on Winslow Road.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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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
Relatedly, duplexes get to use the state’s simple single-family residential code instead of the more demanding guidelines that apply to apartment buildings.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 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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