The phrase "a lost estate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to property, land, or assets that have been abandoned, neglected, or are no longer in the possession of their rightful owner.
Example: "After years of neglect, the once-thriving vineyard became a lost estate, overgrown and forgotten."
Alternatives: "abandoned property" or "forgotten estate".
A lost estate and an ancient crime — Eden and the Fall".
His book becomes an insinuating meditation on how British music — and all British literature and art — "accumulates a powerful charge when it deals with a sense of something unrecoupable, a lost estate".
At last I fell asleep and awoke in the barn of a lost estate where the workers invited me to join the preparation for the wedding party of Frantz de Galais, the Parsifalic son of the Seigneur... .. "Are you sure you had not been taking les champignons magiques...?" I enquired.
Yet I was also left with a slight regret – that Meaulnes and Seurel ever solved the mystery, ever tracked down the lost estate in the first place.
A year and a half later I was chatting to my Uncle Florentin and it turns out he lives in the very same village where the lost estate is situated... Oui, serieusement!
The same aspirations apply in the world of the lost estate: three years after discovering it, Meaulnes looks back and reflects that there he reached "a height of perfection and purity".
He managed to restore the abbey's possession of a number of these lost estates.
By evoking memories that can't be deleted by wilful ignorance or overabstraction, Coupland reminds us that we all share a set of uncloseable doors in our minds, and through these opened doors, in an almost cartoon-like way, now march the NSA, Google, spooks, shadow governments, a lost, pathetic fourth estate, squandered militaristic might and rampant, terrifying nationalism.
For all of this time, the shadow of phony scandals followed her, beginning with a losing real estate venture called Whitewater and ending with her private email server.
Not everyone views the notion of real appreciation in real estate as a lost cause.
On the other hand, I'm plagued by the suspicion that the estate tax is a lost cause.
