duplex
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The sprawling New York City duplex is located in the Novare building—formerly the Washington Square Methodist Church built in 1860, which was converted into an eight-unit condominium building in 2006.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
Officials have red-tagged two properties, including a duplex with three units.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Live with a parent, rent a small apartment with a roommate or two, or even better, buy a duplex and rent out the other side to help pay the mortgage.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 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 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
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
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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