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
A duplex fad is spreading among the city’s developers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
“The biggest piece is affordability,” says Rachel Lange-Mills, president of Lange Real Estate, which has built duplex communities.
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
But as soon as he steps through the front door of their duplex in Harper Woods, Father Mike suffers an immediate drop in status.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
But just as often, as the Mercatus study shows, the duplexes are built in neighborhoods where higher density of apartments is permitted.
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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