estate
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The firm recently hired a head of institutional capital in Japan, a managing director in real estate and a head of insurance.
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
Android competitors offer larger inner display areas, but Apple focuses heavily on the quality of the hinge and concealing the crease where the phone folds rather than sheer screen real estate, analysts say.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Hundreds of tents have occupied Madrid's central Puerta del Sol square since she was taken away on a stretcher last month after the real estate company that owned her flat drastically hiked the rent.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
“The real estate agent says, ‘We’re opening doors for you!’
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
For families with complex estates, consolidating accounts and assets under one trustee can help everything run more smoothly.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
The Conservatives estimate their reforms would reduce the number of affected estates in 2030 to 22,000.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
He boasted it would bring "Borrowdale Brooke to Gandami" - a reference to one of Harare's most exclusive residential estates.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Parents should schedule a meeting, led by an estate attorney or family governance consultant for larger estates, to explain their estate plans to their heirs, revisiting the conversation as estate plans evolve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
This was a drive with estates on either side.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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
When Barrington was a great estated gentleman with a vast fortune at his command, it cost him wonderfully little thought to contract a loan, or even to sell a farm.
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
"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
When Councillor Holmes comes down at the assizes, I'll lay a case before him, and I'll wager a trifle, Peter, you will turn out to be an estated gentleman.'
From Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever
"I don't exactly see to what extent we should have been liable—whether only the estated property, or also all funded moneys."
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever
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