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Recent Examples of granny flat
The move to expand the use of granny flats and other ADUs is long overdue.
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David Greising,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Aug. 2025
Their bipartisan bill will expand financing access for ADUs, which include backyard cottages, granny flats, in-law suites and similar units, also called tiny homes.
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Amelia Wu
july 21,
Sacbee.com,
21 July 2025
People will be tempted to build ADUs [accessory dwelling units, also known as backyard apartments or ‘granny flats’] and maximize profits by turning them into STRVs.
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Jeff McDonald,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 June 2025
The man who claimed to be disrupting the backyard housing industry — securing financing, permits and building granny flats across San Diego County, before collecting millions of dollars without doing the work — is now seeking federal protection from his many creditors.
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Jeff McDonald,
Mercury News,
13 June 2025
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David Greising,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Aug. 2025
Their bipartisan bill will expand financing access for ADUs, which include backyard cottages, granny flats, in-law suites and similar units, also called tiny homes.
—
Amelia Wu
july 21,
Sacbee.com,
21 July 2025
People will be tempted to build ADUs [accessory dwelling units, also known as backyard apartments or ‘granny flats’] and maximize profits by turning them into STRVs.
—
Jeff McDonald,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 June 2025
The man who claimed to be disrupting the backyard housing industry — securing financing, permits and building granny flats across San Diego County, before collecting millions of dollars without doing the work — is now seeking federal protection from his many creditors.
—
Jeff McDonald,
Mercury News,
13 June 2025
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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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Their first place had been a railroad flat, four flights up, three avenues over on Columbus, amid the drug dealers and the prostitutes, the opera singers and the social workers, fine for newlyweds starting out.
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Shelton moved with her five kids to a railroad flat on Blake Street in Berkeley.
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The business also offered plans for tiny homes, about the size of an efficiency apartment.
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The project includes 36 studio apartments, 144 one-bedroom units and 32 two-bedroom units.
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Nick Waddell rents a studio apartment in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Pretty in Pink is one way to refer to this historic garden apartment—built in 1875.
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That’s why operational efficiency matters so much in these conversations.
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Salazar says those efficiencies cut the typical transaction timeline roughly in half.
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Griffin also recently paid $38 million for a duplex apartment up the block from where Mamdani shot the video, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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After meeting his girlfriend, İlkay, the couple moved into a furnished two-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom duplex apartment in the Kadıköy neighborhood of Istanbul.
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The start of condo construction was slowed by lawsuits from the county and the preservation group Dade Heritage Trust.
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Love seeing the grilling episodes of our brethren here, so adding some of my own - my version of surf & turf from our vacation condo here in Clearwater Beach, FL.
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The deals in June included an $80 million duplex penthouse in a new condo building near Manhattan's West Village, a $26 million condo downtown and a $22 million co-op on the Upper East Side.
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There are loft-like attributes to them, and also the feeling of living in a penthouse.
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“Granny flat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/granny%20flat. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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