The word "estates" is correct in written English.
It is typically used to refer to large areas of land, property, or the assets left by a deceased person.
Example: "The family decided to sell the estates inherited from their grandparents."
Alternatives: "properties" or "holdings."
The English upper class owned the language as surely as it owned the great estates.
By 1925 it was levied on every estate worth more than £100, or around £6,000 in today's terms, although on a sliding scale so that small estates paid little, rising to 40% on the very wealthiest.
Suitably oiled-up, local officials open talks with multinational developers to sell council housing estates and other sites.
The hen harriers report, written by a group of five ecologists headed by Prof Steve Redpath, studied the expected capacity of upland shooting estates for breeding hen harriers and compared that to the actual number found.
The rest of the Square Mile has witnessed the gradual erosion of the public realm as the corporation gave the go-ahead to the patchwork of private estates which have taken over since the 1980s.
Arguably, the problems at Peabody Avenue, which can also be found in countless estates around the country, could best be tackled by talented youth and community workers who command the respect of young people.
Housing associations have opposed previous versions of these proposals and the requirement that councils sell their most-expensive properties will also be resisted by some local authorities angry that mixed-tenancy council housing is being turned into estates for the poor.
Sometimes it was embarrassing to roll up on council estates, at women's refuges, probation hostels or queues of the homeless at midnight soup kitchens – but never mind the car, she could put anyone at their ease.
Above all, suspicion remains that HS2 will be, to borrow a phrase from one ex-transport secretary, a rich man's toy: trains sparsely populated by businessmen whizzing blithely through the estates – council and country – of people who will never use it.
But there are posh eateries and estates where house prices doubled in a year.
Others are brought in by family members who have discovered them in the dusty corners and keep-sake cabinets of old homesteads or from deceased estates.
