estate
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In reopening the mall, the billionaire real estate mogul whose company owns the Grove, the Americana at Brand and the Commons at Calabasas has taken something of a risk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Sometimes boring businesses are the most lucrative, something I learned from De Leon’s bets on med spas and real estate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
And that’s even before deducting the extra costs related specifically to real estate like property taxes, condo fees, maintenance, insurance, sales commissions and so on.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
There could be "a shift in tourism and real estate, from southern Europe to cooler northern destinations", Ozkardeskaya said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
It was a small place tucked away at the edge of the vast Jongwe estate.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
There’s also a 40% death tax beyond £325,000 on estates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
When Anderson died more than a decade ago, the Connecticut estate tax kicked in for estates valued above $2 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
I’m a writer who has been sent out on assignment to the stucco estates of suburban Los Angeles to profile a young socialist named Hasan Piker.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
For some families with complex estates, consolidating accounts and assets under one trustee can help everything run more smoothly.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Thousands of slaves still toiled on vast estates in the hills, growing wheat and olives, herding sheep and goats, and mining salt and copper.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
"It is upon estated property I intend to raise this loan, sir," said his Lordship, angrily.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
In connection with each of these settlements Pynar uses the phrase, 'I find planted and estated.'
From The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times by James Godkin
There he lived like an estated gentleman, for Prairie du Pont was then nothing but a cluster of tenants around his feet.
From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
There is many an estated lord couldn't reach you out a fourpenny bit.
From New Irish Comedies by Lady Gregory
"Likening theyselves to the quality, as though they was estated folk, or the like o' that!" said Mrs. Guffern.
From Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
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