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The term apartment is favoured in North America (although in some Canadian cities, flat is used for a unit which is part of a house containing two or three units, typically one to a floor [1]). In the UK, the term apartment is more usual in professional real estate and architectural circles where otherwise the term flat is used commonly, but ...
2-Flat, 3-Flat, and 4-Flat houses: houses or buildings with 2, 3, or 4 flats, respectively, especially when each of the flats takes up one entire floor of the house. There is a common stairway in the front and often in the back providing access to all the flats. 2-Flats and sometimes 3-flats are common in certain older neighborhoods.
A-1 Buildings intended for the production and viewing of performing arts or motion pictures (theaters, concert halls). A-2 Buildings intended for food and/or drink consumption (restaurants). A-3 Buildings intended for worship, recreation or amusement and other assembly uses not otherwise classified.
Searching for an apartment—even a small apartment, such as a studio or one-bedroom unit—is no easy feat. From the location to the price, renting versus buying, there’s much to consider.
A duplex house plan has two living units attached to each other, either next to each other as townhouses, condominiums or one above the other like apartments. By contrast, a building comprising two attached units on two distinct properties is typically considered semi-detached or twin homes but is also called a duplex in parts of the ...
[1] [2] [3] In common speech in Australia and New Zealand, the word "unit", when referring to housing, usually means an apartment, where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storey buildings (an 'apartment block'), or a villa unit or home unit, where a group of dwellings is in one or more single-storey buildings, usually ...
[1] In the United States, single room apartments are typically called a studio apartment, or when slightly smaller an efficiency apartment, also known simply as an efficiency. The Australian equivalent to bedsit is called flatette. [2] In New Zealand, the terms bedsit and granny flat are used interchangeably. [citation needed]
Tiny house: a dwelling, usually built on a trailer or barge, that is 500 square feet (46 m 2) or smaller, built to look like a small house and suitable for long-term habitation Houseboat includes float houses : a boat designed to be primarily used as a residence