They are protected by homestead exemptions and the Save Our Homes law that holds down property assessment increases for a homeowner’s primary residence to no more than 3% a year and therefore limits tax bill hikes.
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Ryan Gillespie,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 May 2025
Neither she nor the relative filed for a homestead exemption, yet the mortgage was issued under the condition that both would live there.
Our family manor was on the outskirts of the King’s territory, far from most of the nobility and day-to-day machinations of court, its customs, and norms.
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Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
13 May 2025
In rural Hampshire, the British designer Faye Toogood has converted a 19th-century manor into a space where modern and traditional interiors coexist.
Once in Mississippi, Wong met Emma Clay, a Black woman born in 1865 on a plantation.
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Erika Hayasaki,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 May 2025
It was built in the 1930s as part of a plantation, and the house itself was initially one large room built for the mango pickers, who were likely Bahamian or Mexican.
Today, countless smallholdings here still tend to the crop, like Jackie Russell, who offers tours of her family’s farm, a 25-acre site producing the Sugarloaf.
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Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
14 Apr. 2025
According To Nutritionists By Hannah Coates The rural setting of Glebe House, a restaurant with rooms surrounded by a 15-acre smallholding, is crucial to the spell of the place, which is heavy on Devonshire air and the scent of baking porridge bread.
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