Flats And Apartments

• Apartment building: a multi-unit dwelling made up of several (generally four or more) apartments.

• Apartment tower, Block of flats or Tower block: a high-rise apartment building.

• Condominium: Separate residences with some common areas.

• Duplex: Two separate residences, usually side-by-side, but sometimes on two different floors. The former often looks like two houses put together, sharing a wall; the latter usually appears as a townhouse, but with two different entrances.

• Garden Apartment: a building style usually characterized by two story, semi-detached buildings, each floor being a separate apartment.

• Maisonette: an apartment / flat on two levels with internal stairs, or which has its own entrance at street level.

• Penthouse: Refers to the top floor of multi-story building.

• Tenement a multi-unit dwelling made up of several (generally four or more) apartments (i.e. an apartment building). In the United States the connotation implies a run-down or poorly-cared-for building.

• Loft or Warehouse conversion: Trendy flats inhabited by bourgeois bohemian after gentrification of an industrial area.