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estate

[ih-stayt] / ɪˈsteɪt /




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A growing number of commercial real estate buyers are threatening to walk away from recent transactions unless the seller offers better terms, and rapidly rising interest rates are to blame.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Meanwhile, research by estate agents Savills found between April and June 2026 almost 73% of consumer spending in shopping centres was in the biggest sites, with less than 18% in secondary, or medium-sized centres.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

He is also said to have paid $20 million for the Casa Malibu Inn in 2007, 10 years before he snapped up another oceanfront estate for a reported $48 million.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Zhang lives in Irvine with her husband, Edric Ding, who is also a real estate agent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 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

Casa Encantada — a 40,000-square-foot Bel-Air mega-mansion considered one of L.A.’s most iconic estates — has a new owner: Peter Thiel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

The donor avoids capital-gains taxes, gets an income-tax deduction and pushes assets out of taxable estates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Powers to implement the scheme will rest with mayors because "they know which firms are hiring, which colleges are delivering, which estates have been left behind," Healey said.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

This streamlined process allows estates like your mother’s to be settled more quickly and at a fraction of the cost of traditional probate.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026

All I have to hang in them is what I took out of Madoc’s estates and a few things I got at Target.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

You ain't above taking all our money and seeing us starve; and that when you have got everything round you here like an estated gentleman, as you are?'

From John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope

It was all the difference between rank and obscurity—between wealth and want—between the condition of an estated gentleman and the assumption of a mere pretender.

From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever

This system was, however, especially disadvantageous to one class of estated proprietors, the Municipalities.

From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Sir Henry Sumner Maine

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




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