estate
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The King uses his own private money to support his brother and to accommodate him on his estate in Sandringham.
From BBC ● 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
Ellison has become known as a “Malibu real estate mogul,” buying his first Carbon Beach property in 2002.
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
Thomas Jefferson inherited approximately 5,000 acres, including the Shadwell property and what would later become his Monticello estate.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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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
Fregate Island This ultra-private island reopens in October after a five-year, ground-up rebuild, with 14 private-pool villas and three estates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
These caps would cover freehold estates and privately managed estates where people can face additional fees for making cosmetic changes to their properties and requesting documents like building safety certificates.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Maine allows certain estates to be settled using a small-estate affidavit rather than the full probate process.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
Messages run in and out of estates all the time.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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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
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
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
They admitted all strangers that were confidingly introduced; for, it was a main end of their institution to make proselytes, especially of the raw estated youths newly come to town.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
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
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