estate
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Zhang lives in Irvine with her husband, Edric Ding, who is also a real estate agent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
In total, his real estate holdings in the waterfront community are said to be worth upward of $180 million.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
The real estate tycoon appears increasingly obsessed by his construction projects at the White House, such as his new ballroom and helipad.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
"Together, this would make nearby development more viable and transform a disorganised industrial estate into an area that is hospitable to both current and future residents," they said.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
The lot where Fischer was buried belongs to the family of Gardar Sverisson, a close friend of Miyoko Watai, one of the claimants to the estate of Bobby.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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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
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
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
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
Before him, such a form of colonization had been used in the fifth century by the Athenians, who planted citizen estates in troublesome areas of their Aegean empire.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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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
Roger North tells us that “they admitted all strangers that were confidingly introduced, for it was a main end of their institutions to make proselytes, especially of the raw estated youth newly come to town.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
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
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
He was an estated gentleman, and songs were made about his family.
From Three Plays by Padraic Colum
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