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"A senior No 10 source said that male primogeniture was 'a nonsense.' Scrapping it was 'being looked at,' along with 'three or four other things.'"
20 Feb 2021, 3:59 am
Male primogeniture – inheritance by the eldest son - is a feudal relic, designed to ensure that estates remain undivided on the deaths of their owners, and kept out of the hands of women too weak to fight off predators.... [read post]
Althouse - http://althouse.blogspot.com/
The NYT tells its readers about the woes of life in a "tiny home" during the lockdown...
13 Feb 2021, 7:20 am
" I have a personal stake in the "home"/"house" distinction — because of my last name — and I rankle at the sentimentality of referring to real estate as a "home. [read post]
Althouse - http://althouse.blogspot.com/
"A son of European immigrants who grew up in Brooklyn and never went to college, Mr. King began as a local radio interviewer and sportscaster in Florida in the 1950s and ’60s, rose to prominence..."
23 Jan 2021, 6:35 am
Trump, when he was still best known as a real estate mogul: 'Does it have to be buildings? [read post]
Althouse - http://althouse.blogspot.com/
Last words from "the only true outsider ever to win the presidency."
20 Jan 2021, 4:05 am
" Experience building buildings doesn't transfer to mountain climbing, so it's not just a mixed metaphor, it's a metaphor switch that draws attention to the problem that his real estate career did not prepare him for the work of governing. [read post]
Althouse - http://althouse.blogspot.com/
If the "Capitol mob" was "a raging collection of grievances and disillusionment" as The Washington Post says...
11 Jan 2021, 7:14 am
Their professions touch nearly every facet of American society: lawyers, local lawmakers, real estate agents, law enforcement officers, military veterans, construction workers, hair stylists and nurses. [read post]
Althouse - http://althouse.blogspot.com/
"'Soon after he met me, he took me to lunch and told me he was in love with me. I thought it was sweet, but he was 11 years older and I had a boyfriend at the time who I was madly in love with.'"
11 Jan 2021, 4:17 am
Now a real-estate agent in Los Angeles, Ms. [read post]
Althouse - http://althouse.blogspot.com/
"He was entranced by fire — with a real-estate agent recalling seeing an estimated 1,000 candles in Hsieh’s Park City, Utah, home..."
7 Dec 2020, 5:59 am
"'[He] explained to me that the candles were a symbol of what life was like in a simpler time'.... [read post]
Althouse - http://althouse.blogspot.com/
I'm so pleased to see that my old colleague Thomas Mitchell has won a MacArthur "genius" grant.
6 Oct 2020, 2:03 pm
From the MacArthur Foundation website:Thomas Wilson Mitchell is a property law scholar reforming longstanding legal doctrines that deprive Black and other disadvantaged American families of their property and real estate wealth. [read post]
Althouse - http://althouse.blogspot.com/
"What if a modern-day Black American woke up one morning to find herself on a Civil War–era slave plantation?"
19 Sep 2020, 7:25 am
Strangely, the whole estate seems to function only as a place for sadistic punishment. [read post]
Althouse - http://althouse.blogspot.com/
"[The real estate agent] took honest photos of the space, capturing the charm, but also the clutter and wear and tear that had accrued over nearly 50 years."
18 Sep 2020, 9:59 am
"They listed the loft at $1.99 million, underpriced because of the sale’s many contingencies and complications. [read post]
Althouse - http://althouse.blogspot.com/
"Even in the 1970s, and through the 80s, when NYC was going bankrupt, and even when it was the crime capital of the US or close to it, it was still the capital of the business world..."
16 Aug 2020, 8:34 am
Prices are down 30-50% on both rentals and sales no matter what real estate people tell you.... [read post]
Althouse - http://althouse.blogspot.com/
"In June and July, Fox News was the highest-rated television channel in the prime-time hours of 8 to 11 p.m. Not just on cable."
9 Aug 2020, 1:42 pm
That three-hour slot is a narrow but significant slice of TV real estate, and it is exceedingly rare for a basic-cable channel to outrank the Big Three broadcasters, which are available in more households and offer a wider variety of programming. [read post]
Althouse - http://althouse.blogspot.com/
"In the Trumpian worldview — one certainly shared by other real estate developers — cities are not configured of neighborhoods and ecosystems..."
26 Jul 2020, 7:35 am
"... and a broad constellation of creative aspirations and complexities; they are sales shelves from which to market luxury apartments, ultimately occupied by people who don’t deeply embed in them so much as pass through. [read post]
Althouse - http://althouse.blogspot.com/
"According to charging documents, [Ghislaine] Maxwell 'befriended' some of these victims, 'including by asking the victims about their lives, their schools, and their families.'"
2 Jul 2020, 2:22 pm
The alleged grooming happened, according to the documents, at Epstein’s mansion on the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, his estate in Palm Beach, Florida, his ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as well as Maxwell’s residence in London. [read post]
Althouse - http://althouse.blogspot.com/
"'chunk" and 'chunks' two posts down. Lot of chunk-ing this morning. How often has that word appeared in your posts over the years?"
21 Jun 2020, 12:34 pm
" You can see that I used "chunk" there to create a poetic connection between the estate and the fleshly corpse. [read post]
Althouse - http://althouse.blogspot.com/
"While Melania stayed in New York, Ivanka continued to establish herself in the West Wing, notorious for its cramped and limited working spaces."
13 Jun 2020, 2:46 pm
"According to several people, she was eyeing real estate in the East Wing as well, the domain of the first lady. [read post]
Althouse - http://althouse.blogspot.com/
"No. You can not base your life on frowning and glaring at others literally behind your shades and think you are making a positive impact on lives."
13 Jun 2020, 5:57 am
" by Ginia Bellafante (NYT).The first-highest-rated comment: "It's kind of rich when a newspaper that oozes white privilege and credential worship, prints endless real-estate stories about zillion-dolllar properties, and covers celebrities endlessly in its style magazine and arts pages goes after Anna Wintour. [read post]
Althouse - http://althouse.blogspot.com/
"But now, as the pandemic eases its grip, companies are considering not just how to safely bring back employees, but whether all of them need to come back at all...."
13 May 2020, 8:16 am
 Real estate taxes provide about a third of New York’s revenue... [read post]
Althouse - http://althouse.blogspot.com/
"It’s very hard for a person to quarantine in a home and other people not to get infected. To do it in a home where a person is bringing you dishes, bringing you food, even if they’re wearing a mask and gloves, that virus can live on some surfaces up to two days."
16 Apr 2020, 6:58 am
Said Governor Andrew Cuomo, expressing empathy for his brother and sister-in-law, quoted in "'It just breaks my heart': Chris Cuomo says his wife, Cristina, has coronavirus, too," published in The Washington Post, which makes no mention of the incident over the weekend in which Chris Cuomo and his family were enjoying the outdoors together on beachfront real estate that did not even include a house — let alone a room where Chris could have been doing the kind of… [read post]
Althouse - http://althouse.blogspot.com/
"In the 1980s, Escobar decided to make his own personal zoo on his palatial estate in Antioquia, Colombia, illegally importing... four hippos."
30 Mar 2020, 7:46 am
"When Escobar died in 1993, the government removed the animals to zoos and wildlife sanctuaries. [read post]
Althouse - http://althouse.blogspot.com/