Sentence examples for biggest estates from inspiring English sources

The outsiders include Michel Verspeelt, a Belgian who oversees one of the biggest estates in the area, Chateau Destin, on behalf of Luxembourg-based investors.

As a result, the dukes and sheikhs and oligarchs who own England's biggest estates each receive millions of pounds in subsidies.

America's estate tax is levied at a high rate (a marginal rate of 55% for the biggest estates), but it kicks in only after a sizeable exemption (in effect, the first $1.35m of gross estate per couple, rising to $2m by 2006, goes untaxed).

But to keep the new bill from amounting to a big capital gains tax increase for the heirs, it includes a provision allowing transfer of $3 million in assets to a surviving spouse -- and for all but the biggest estates an additional $1.3 million in assets either to a spouse or to anyone else -- with a "basis" value equal to the asset's value at the time the person died.

Obama's deal would free an estimated 40,000 of the biggest estates in the country each year that would otherwise have been subject to the tax from paying a single penny.

Foxtons' results came a day after a profit warning from Countrywide, the UK's biggest estate agent.

Countrywide, Britain's biggest estate agent, predicted this week that average prices would fall 1% next year before rising again.

He would be reassured to see that by far the biggest estate in the register is the Ministry of Defence at £86.7bn.

In one of the biggest estate cases in American history, the baron and his younger brother, Ugo, filed suit against the Cullen family in the early 1980's.

Paul Smith, chief executive of Britain's biggest estate agent chain, Haart, said branches had had a flood of calls over the last week.

The "biggest estate on earth" didn't happen by chance, rather, through good fire management practises, the land was kept in good order, a bit like housekeeping.