Rackham scraped together $5,000 by borrowing some money and selling some real estate parcels.

"What's happening is that there aren't many big estate parcels available anymore," he said.

In December 2006 the hotel and the attached real estate parcels were acquired by Blackstone Group.

After a ten-year struggle, his nephew was able to keep that deteriorating estate parcel intact and retained by the state.

Sensuality is reduced to clownish sexual preening, family loyalties to the language of real estate parcels and advantageous marriages.

Between 1937 and 1941, she sold 10 of the 26 real estate parcels that together had formed her studio lot.

The ad - which Ms. Lieberman still keeps in her desk drawer - said "estate parcel, situated on azure waters, $4.85 million."

The new development on the original estate parcel became Harbour View Estates.

He was a hard-driving, hard-drinking businessman whose ventures included assembling the real estate parcel for the Salt Palace convention center.

The referendum as proposed by Mr. Levy would allow a tax of up to $1 on real estate parcels to provide for public financing.