estate
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For starters, the 46-year-old billionaire was confined to house arrest on his 300-acre Oxfordshire estate in England, fighting off a Swiss extradition request tied to an international money-laundering probe.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
The development, which will house 338 condominiums, marks Michelin-starred chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s first foray into residential real estate.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
Shares of real estate investment trusts that lease data centers to hyperscalers like Meta and Amazon were falling Thursday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
“It’s a case where the defendant is already a defendant in real estate fraud involving our victim Nadine.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
The president of a large Japanese real estate firm was another.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
"Every year it gets worse and worse with climate change," said Kevin Whitehorn, the estates manager for Warminster Town Council.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
“That’s the nature of the vast majority of family offices,” said David Handler, a trust and estates lawyer at Kirkland & Ellis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
For families with complex estates, consolidating accounts and assets under one trustee can help everything run more smoothly.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
Liverpool-born McGovern focused on adult prison estates in the first two series of BBC hit Time.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The stone sign in front of what looked like a new development read the prema estates.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
At the institution many of the chief estated gentlemen of the kingdom were selected for the dignity.
From Collections and Recollections by George William Erskine Russell
There is many an estated lord couldn't reach you out a fourpenny bit.
From New Irish Comedies by Lady Gregory
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
Every class, from the estated proprietor to the humblest peasant, is loud in asserting that the story is an infamous falsehood.
From Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever
I mean, of course, of the elder branch, for there are swarms of the others, well to do and prosperous also, and with fine estated properties.
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever
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