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The claimed homestead could include the same land which they had previously filed a preemption claim (on up to 160 acres at $1.25 per acre, or up to 80 acres of subdivided and surveyed land at $2.50 per acre), and they could expand their current ownership to contiguous adjacent land up to 160 acres total.
The building overlooks a landscaped park, [1] which includes gardens, a cricket ground and a 150-acre (61 ha) deer park. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Buckland House is a Grade II* listed building . [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Nikolaus Pevsner described it as "the most splendid Georgian house in the Country", [ 4 ] It is rumoured that a ghost of a white lady haunts the house.
Wentworth Woodhouse is a large rural estate, extending to 15,000 acres including the country house. The "estate" formed an economic system where the profits from its produce and rents (of housing or agricultural land) sustained the main household, formerly known as the manor house.
Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as growing crops (e.g. timber), minerals or water, and wild animals; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general.
Housing estate, a group of houses built as a single development. Industrial estate (office park) and trading estate; property planned and sub-let for industrial and commercial use. Real estate or real property. Estate agent or real estate agent; Literary estate, the intellectual property of a deceased author, or the executor thereof
After the Civil War, freedmen (freed slaves) were reckoned to be self-sufficient with "40 acres and a mule." In the 20th century real estate developers preferred working with 40-acre (16 ha) parcels. [2] The phrases "front 40" and "back 40," referring to farm fields, indicate the front and back quarter-quarter sections of land.
Life estate: An estate lasting for the natural life of the grantee, called a "life tenant". If a life estate can be sold, a sale does not change its duration, which is limited by the natural life of the original grantee. A life estate per autre vie is held by one person for the natural life of another person.
Real estate is land property, especially in the context of buying, selling and renting Real Estate may also refer to: Music. Real Estate (band), an American indie ...