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Recent Examples of granny flat
Think house or apartment sharing to cut back on costs rather than living alone, in accessory dwelling units or ADUs known as casitas, granny flats, or in-law units.
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Anita Snow, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2023
Think house or apartment sharing to cut back on costs rather than living alone, in accessory dwelling units or ADUs known as casitas, granny flats, and in-law units.
—Anita Snow, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Nov. 2023
The optional statewide law, AB 1033, was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in mid-October, and allows accessory dwelling units, sometimes called granny flats, to be sold separately — and, presumably, at a lower price than your average home.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023
The fire claimed dozens of homes in its path, but the family’s house — which includes a garage and a granny flat on more than two acres near Cleveland National Forest — was unscathed.
—Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times, 14 June 2023
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Anita Snow, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2023
Think house or apartment sharing to cut back on costs rather than living alone, in accessory dwelling units or ADUs known as casitas, granny flats, and in-law units.
—Anita Snow, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Nov. 2023
The optional statewide law, AB 1033, was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in mid-October, and allows accessory dwelling units, sometimes called granny flats, to be sold separately — and, presumably, at a lower price than your average home.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023
The fire claimed dozens of homes in its path, but the family’s house — which includes a garage and a granny flat on more than two acres near Cleveland National Forest — was unscathed.
—Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times, 14 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for granny flat
- railroad flat
- efficiency apartment
- studio apartment
- garden apartment
- efficiency
- duplex apartment
- condo
- penthouse
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Shelton moved with her five kids to a railroad flat on Blake Street in Berkeley.Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2022
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Shortly after Howe was born, in 1940, her family moved from Buffalo to a railroad flat near Harvard Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
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The inn also offers two efficiency apartments for longer-term stays.Korrin Bishop, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2024
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Last fall, city officials put forward a plan for the local housing authority to take control of the remaining trust properties and operate them until they could be turned over to developers who would tear down and rebuild them as efficiency apartments for homeless residents.Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
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Simple updates to your decor and lifestyle help with channeling this look in any home—from a country estate to a studio apartment in Manhattan.Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Oct. 2024
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Zoom in: Brenan, who recently moved into a studio apartment in Arlington, spends $2,155 a month on rent.Sami Sparber, Axios, 12 Oct. 2024
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From $151 per night. BOOK NOW Pink Paradise in New Orleans, Louisiana This historic garden apartment—built in 1875— is a stunner on the inside and out.Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2024
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This is the developer’s first project in Haltom City Alpine Fossil Creek will feature garden apartments with one two and three bedroom floor plans, according to a news release.Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 May 2024
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To support Moshiri’s goals, a realigned Board was cultivated to enhance operational efficiency and instill strategic calibration.Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2024
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Turnovers continued to plague the Huskies in the fourth quarter, but Ole Miss couldn’t maintain its third quarter offensive efficiency.Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 28 Nov. 2024
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The duplex apartment measures roughly 9,200 square feet with five bedrooms and six bathrooms.Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2024
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Pascal Chevallier Her duplex apartment, in the haut-monde 16th arrondissement, delights in a similar mix of bourgeois deference to French classicism and pleasure-seeking quirk.Ellie Pithers, Vogue, 31 July 2024
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When the apartments were renovated and converted into condos around 2000, the units on the second floor had separate owners; that is, until Williamses came along.Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 21 Nov. 2024
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By Wednesday, an online GoFundMe site had been launched to collect donations for newlyweds who lost their home and two cats in the explosion at their condo.Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 21 Nov. 2024
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McGregor was ordered to pay more than $250,000 to Nikita Hand, who alleged that McGregor brutally assaulted her in a hotel penthouse in 2018 in Dublin.Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2024
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The 97 guest rooms range from standard accommodations to a duplex penthouse, all sharing a visual language, with custom glass-and-steel chandeliers, warmcolor palettes, and lacquered headboards as common threads.Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 19 Nov. 2024
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