house
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“Get your house in order because it’s coming to you soon,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Would you buy a house if it came with an HOA?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
“It’s also a refreshing narrative. It’s, like, oh, you walk into somebody’s house, ‘Wow, that’s a nice Monet.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
"I'm 81. I've had a very busy life. And all I want to do is sit in my little house at the top of the road and live the remaining years in peace."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
I look out the kitchen window; it faces the back of the house.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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The average selling price for KB Home houses decreased to $473,000 from $475,700.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
For example final assembly is done in so-called packaging houses, which are clustered in Taiwan.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
The fire started at a battery energy storage system near a solar panel field on the northeast side at the facility, which houses Weymouth Water Treatment Plant, according to the water district.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The board has the responsibility to maintain the building that houses the center, but not to demolish the building and erect a new one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
And he pointed to a road that led down a street of houses and small, squat stone shops, toward the trees beyond.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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His place in the Los Angeles art world was defined as much by his dinner parties as by the art he housed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Filmmaker Steven Spielberg has listed the sprawling Los Angeles ranch where he housed his horses for nearly $30 million—decades after abandoning controversial plans to transform the property with an enormous five-story riding facility.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
The mother-and-baby wing opened in 1960 and by the time it closed in 1985, local media reported it had housed 1,552 women and girls.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
A younger left, as the statement says at the beginning: “We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities . . .”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Next came a proposal for a $2 million “Bobby Fischer Museum,” to be housed in Iceland—or maybe it should be Brooklyn, the promoters mused.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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Drysdale said the local authority already fulfilled many of the ambitions associated with public service reform through its partnership working, housing investment, employability support and collaboration with neighbouring authorities.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Conditions in the housing market have weakened since KB Home’s June earnings report, Executive Chair Jeffrey Mezger said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
What hasn’t returned to pre-Great Recession levels are housing markets.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
KB Home KBH 1.53%increase; up pointing triangle lowered its outlook for housing gross profit margin, as the company is seeing conditions in the housing industry continue to worsen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Mike Burry believed he had to place this bet now, before the U.S. housing market woke up and was restored to sanity.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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