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
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
They were sitting in his half of the duplex.
From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar
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
Larry Gross, executive director of the Coalition for Economic Survival, said he fears developers will use the law to demolish rent-controlled duplexes, replacing them with more expensive apartment projects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 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
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