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Apartment An _____(in American English ) or flat (in British English ) is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building . Apartments may be owned by an owner/occupier or rented by tenants. In some locations, particularly the United States, the word denotes a rental unit owned

Apartment An _____(in American English) or flat (in British English) is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building. Apartments

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Apartment

An _____(in American English) or flat (in British English) is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building. Apartments may be owned by an owner/occupier or rented by tenants. In some locations, particularly the United States, the word denotes a rental unit owned by the building owner.

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Condominium/condo

A ______, or condo, where a specified part of an apartment house is individually owned while use of and access to common facilities such as hallways, heating system, elevators, exterior areas is executed under legal rights associated with the individual ownership and controlled by the association of owners . A condominium may be simply defined as an "apartment" that the resident "owns" as opposed to rents

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single-family home/house

_______ is any free-standing house that is structurally separated from its neighboring houses, usually separated by open land

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townhouse

______ historically used in the United Kingdom, Ireland and in many other countries to describe a residence of a peer or member of the aristocracy in the capital or major city.

Today the term can have multiple definitions: in North America it is used to describe terraced housing and in Australia the term is commonly used for contemporary medium density housing in the terraced style.

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mansion

A _____ or manor is a very large dwelling house. U.S. realtors define a mansion as a dwelling of over 8,000 square feet (740 m2). A traditional European mansion was defined as a house which contained a ballroom and tens of bedrooms. Today, however, there is no formal definition beyond being a large and well-appointed house.[

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villa

A villa was originally an ancient Roman upper-class country house. In modern usage 'villa' can refer to a various types and sizes of residences as elegant upper-class country homes.