estate
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Ludovic Delaisse, CEO of the French arm of the Canadian real estate business Colliers, says that demand for office space in Paris has fallen by almost a third over the past five to six years.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
"Here you will be in the kitchen, and here is the bathroom," says the deputy CEO of French real estate company Groupama Immobilier.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
By his 20s, he was married with two daughters and working in commercial real estate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
He currently resides in a $60 million Jupiter Island waterfront estate.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
Francesco will receive the whole estate, with all its land and livestock.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
“The Rings of Power” shot at 14 locations for Season 3, primarily on private estates and in Windsor Great Park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
It’s also not hard to imagine the estates of Big Mama Thornton and Arthur Crudup — should any such entities exist — scoffing at those headlines.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
For families with complex estates, consolidating accounts and assets under one trustee can help everything run more smoothly.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
Mohamed Elalfy, president of the Royal College of Opthalmologists, said services in Wales face a "number of long-standing challenges, including dilapidated estates, workforce shortages and poor IT infrastructure".
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
“It appears not: I fancy neither she nor her sister have very large fortunes. Old Lord Ingram’s estates were chiefly entailed, and the eldest son came in for everything almost.”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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
Darby: You letting on to be an estated magistrate and my own cousin and such a great generation of a man.
From New Irish Comedies by Lady Gregory
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
"It is upon estated property I intend to raise this loan, sir," said his Lordship, angrily.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
There is many an estated lord couldn't reach you out a fourpenny bit.
From New Irish Comedies by Lady Gregory
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