• And you have to move from your family house to a flat, and your new bedroom is tiny and you have to share it with your little brother, who drives you mad.

    NEWYORKER: Homework

  • The scheme now offers discounts of up to 60% for the value of a house and 70% for a flat.

    BBC: Right to Buy take-up almost doubles

  • The way that the house welcomed the indoors in, the adaptation of Italian garden principles to a flat Florida swamp and the siting of the house next to Biscayne Bay -- all of this, combined with classical house and garden design, resulted in a work of genius.

    WSJ: An American Renaissance Gem

  • The house made its first flat trunk in 1856 and distinguished itself by making lighter cases with waterproof canvas (the Trianon canvas).

    FORBES: Voyage En Capital: The Louis Vuitton & Paris Show

  • Of the 70 cities tracked by the bureau, the report shows house prices declined in 21, stayed flat in 24 and increased in 25, compared to the previous month.

    FORBES: China Housing Prices May Have Bottomed Out

  • As a result, they are buying their first house or flat at a later age than previous generations, and renting for longer.

    ECONOMIST: The housing market

  • "Most of us have rented a flat or house at some stage in our lives and the private rented sector is, at its best, a vital provider of good housing, " said housing and planning minister Yvette Cooper.

    BBC: RELATED BBC SITES

  • Gravesham has about 3, 180 households on its waiting list, with an average nine month wait for a three-bedroom flat and two years for a four-bedroom house.

    BBC: Gravesham council homes will go to local people

  • He recently moved out of his father's residence, Clarence House -- where he had a bedroom and study -- into a small flat at Kensington Palace where his brother and sister-in-law live.

    CNN: How 'soldier prince' Harry tore up royal rule book

  • The flat-roofed, rectangular glass house, with white travertine marble floors and decks, floats elegantly on steel supports along the banks of the Fox River in Plano, Ill.

    FORBES: Un-private Houses

  • We lived in the second-floor flat of a small two-and-a-half-family house on a tree-lined street of frame wooden houses with redbrick stoops, each stoop topped with a gable roof and fronted by a tiny yard boxed in with a low-cut hedge.

    NPR: Roth Rewrites History with a 'Plot Against America'

  • Earlier, research firms RP Data and Rismark reported house prices in capital cities rose 0.2% in March, but were flat over the first quarter.

    WSJ: Australia Housing to Drag on Growth

  • Even Democratic House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt has a modified "flat tax" plan that would simplify the system and reduce tax rates for middle and lower income taxpayers.

    CNN: AllPolitics - Clinton Adviser: No Major Tax Cut In 1998

  • In addition to tax cuts, a number of Republicans, including House Majority Leader Dick Armey and 1996 presidential candidate Steve Forbes, have also proposed so-called "flat tax" plans that would radically alter the income tax system.

    CNN: AllPolitics - Clinton Adviser: No Major Tax Cut In 1998

  • The first fight began as soon as they left the house: she has a memory of dozing through whole cycles of shouts and squealing and that odd, flat roar Shawn has started to produce whenever he truly loses himself and just rages.

    NEWYORKER: Wasps

  • Surely the House GOP can take the good parts of those plans and push even farther and take a big step toward a flat tax.

    FORBES: If I Could Write New Year's Resolutions For The GOP ...

  • Surveyors expect house prices to remain flat next year, with only a modest rise in the number of transactions in Scotland, and rental prices rising.

    BBC: Estate agent's window

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