His Jesuit confessor arranged his marriage (1609) to an elderly Czech widow, Lucretia Nekšova, with immense estates in Moravia, which permitted him to live lavishly, especially after her death (1614).
In February 1811 his father inherited the Cardigan earldom, along with the immense estates and revenues that went with it, and the family seat of Deene Park, Northamptonshire.
Other presidential properties, he writes, included an "immense" estate in Havana complete with rooftop bowling alley, basketball court and fully equipped medical centre, and a luxury bungalow with private marina on the coast.
That's good news, though the immense real estate hangover at the root of the crisis won't soon go away.
*The deceptively sweet-looking Queen Anne cottage at 21 West 26th Street (Thomas Stent, 1881) from which the Astors ran their immense real estate empire.
It's sad that the church justifies closing these schools and even closing parish churches while they sit on mountains of art, immense real estate holdings and plenty of cash.Chicklet Douglaston, N.Y.
Several of its grand mansions had been turned into museums, including Blithewold, an immense English-style estate, where I spent an hour or so roaming through lovely gardens straight out of Jane Austen.
It was not enough of a profit to justify – in brutal, economic terms – the use of such an immense tract of real estate for a minority sport when the alternative would generate many times more.
Ms. Clark was not dead at all, but she did not live in any of her immense dwellings, which included an estate atop a mesa in Santa Barbara, Calif., and three apartments, totaling more than 40 rooms, in a grand Fifth Avenue building.
He faces further legal problems over the funding of his immense 29-bedroom 39-bath Sagaponack estate.
Greatly impressed by the immense scale and richness of the estate, Elizabeth listens to the housekeeper's earnest tales of her master's lifelong goodness, while Darcy refreshes from his unannounced journey home by taking a swim in a lake.
