estate
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Layla Mangan from Alexanders estate agent in Aberystwyth said she was "surprised" at the 9.3% drop in prices recorded for Ceredigion.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Equal treatment in an estate plan doesn’t necessarily produce outcomes that feel fair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Some of those living in a new-build housing estate nearby are concerned about the project, including James George, 32, who said he was worried about the impact on the environment and his home.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
My current estate plan: My will currently provides for Son #1 to inherit 60% of the business, with his share increasing by 2% for each additional year he works in the business.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
Sheep-dotted meadows were hardly a novelty to three English children who lived on a country estate, but seeing the landscape flick by through the windows of a fast-moving train certainly was, and they were captivated.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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For families with complex estates, consolidating accounts and assets under one trustee can help everything run more smoothly.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
Known to local real-estate agents as Billionaires’ Bluff, the enclave is known for its blufftop estates, as well as beach houses, like McEnroe’s, on the sand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Official data shows higher value estates pay the majority of the inheritance tax collected.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
It is drawn from the King's private money, which includes his income from the Duchy of Lancaster, private estates and his own investments and inheritances.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
But now there were more and more “free” workers—those who had moved off the estates and lived in their own houses, splitting their time between sugar work and their own businesses.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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Had Thady Macdermot had ready money, it might have been well built; but though an estated gentleman, he had none.
From The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Anthony Trollope
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
He was an estated gentleman, and songs were made about his family.
From Three Plays by Padraic Colum
But Thaddeus, otherwise Thady Macdermot, being an estated gentleman, must have a gentleman's residence on his estate, and the house of Ballycloran was accordingly built.
From The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Anthony Trollope
"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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