Apartment

An apartment (in American and Canadian English) or a flat (in British English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building, correctly, on a single level without a stair. Such a building may be called an apartment building, apartment complex (in American English), apartment house (in American English), block of flats, tower block, high-rise or, occasionally mansion block (in British English), especially if it consists of many apartments for rent. In Scotland it is called a block of flats or, if it's a traditional sandstone building, a tenement, which has a pejorative connotation elsewhere. Apartments may be owned by an owner/occupier, by leasehold tenure or rented by tenants (two types of housing tenure).

Terminology

The term apartment is favoured in North America (although flat is used in the case of a unit which is part of a house containing two or three units, typically one to a floor) and also is the preferred term in Ireland. In the UK, the term apartment is more usual in professional real estate and architectural circles where otherwise the term flat is commonly, but not exclusively, for an apartment without a stair (hence a 'flat' apartment). Technically multi-storey apartments are referred to as 'duplex' (or 'triplex') indicating the number of floors within the property. Usage generally follows the British in Singapore, Hong Kong and most Commonwealth nations.

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Cosgrave family secures €4.7m from sale of Dublin city apartments

The Irish Times 02 Apr 2025
The portfolio comprising 14 apartments at 17 Hogan Place and 2A Hogan Avenue has been acquired by a private Irish investor ... Lot 2 is located at 2A Hogan Avenue and comprised eight self-contained apartments with a mix of three one-bedroom units and five two-bedroom units. Six of the apartments are occupied at present....
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Here’s who rented the tallest — and priciest — home in Queens: ‘Everyone wanted this apartment!’

New York Post 02 Apr 2025
The tallest apartment in Queens is officially off the market ... The husband-and-wife duo locked down the 67th-floor unit at Skyline Tower for $11,200 a month ... That said, that price ties this apartment with a mansion in Little Neck as the most expensive residence ever rented in Queens ... “Everyone wanted this apartment!” 8 ... An in-unit washer and dryer....
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National developer eyes opportunity amid rents below market rate in Rochester

Post Bulletin 02 Apr 2025
Santa Monica, California-based Lincoln Avenue Communities plans to build a 149-unit apartment complex on Fourth Street Southeast, just east of the bridge over Bear Creek ... currently slated to feature 41 one-bedroom apartments, 77 two-bedroom units and 31 three-bedroom apartments....
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Dublin 8 apartment investment guiding at €3.5m

The Irish Times 02 Apr 2025
Investors in the private rented sector (PRS) market will be interested in the sale of a portfolio of 11 newly restored apartments in Dublin city centre ... The development consists of six one-bedroom and five two-bedroom units. The apartments have ......
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Local rules mean less housing at old Brewer vacuum shop

Bangor Daily News 02 Apr 2025
Matt Pouliot, says he could have doubled the number of units constructed if it weren’t for local code restrictions that held him back ... Adding those extra apartments and spreading the property tax, water and sewer bills over four units instead of two would have also lowered rents by $200, Pouliot said....
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New Zealand home consents decline 7.4 pct annually

China.dot.org 02 Apr 2025
Consents of multi-unit home, which includes townhouses, flats, and units, apartments, and retirement village units, dropped for the second consecutive year, down 15 percent to 17,743 in the year, while stand-alone house consents rose 2.3 ......
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High-yield Mong Kok unit linked to compensated dating building

Hong Kong Standard 02 Apr 2025
The 224-square-foot unit, which was listed for HK$2.28 million, is said to generate HK$18,000 in monthly rent ... Apart from a badminton equipment store and a few residential and guesthouse units, over 80 percent of the building consists of compensated dating establishments....
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Finfer: Local policy tools can boost affordable housing

Boston Herald 02 Apr 2025
When it costs $400,000 or more in government subsidy funds to make just one unit of housing affordable, we actually need a lot more money ... But, that law does NOT require any of the units to be affordable ... Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU’s) are small apartments built into existing homes or garages....
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Mayfair to launch its resort project close to Bhogapuram airport shortly as Andhra Pradesh cabinet clears the decks

The Times of India 02 Apr 2025
This will be the first hospitality unit coming close to the upcoming Bhogapuram international airport ... We have planned to invest nearly Rs.400 crore on this hospitality unit cum convention centre project,” said former minister and Mayfair group chairman Dilip Ray ... Curiously, the Mayfair group will not go for apartment model hotel construction....
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Jackie’s Dream: A Homerun for Smokey’s Stadium

The Tennessee Tribune 02 Apr 2025
Ten years. That is how long Jackie Griffin has been feeding Knoxville with some of the best soul food in the South ... Soon, they will travel downtown ... The path was easy ... Surrounding the stadium will be luxury condominiums and new apartment housing of over four hundred units, all within walking distance of Jackie’s Dream restaurant .......
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Louis C.K. has sold his boho-chic downtown NYC home for $2.36M

New York Post 02 Apr 2025
Comedian Louis C.K. — aka, Louis Alfred Székely — has sold his Greenwich Village home inside a landmarked, red-brick townhouse for $2.36 million, Gimme Shelter can reveal ... The three-bedroom, three-bathroom, three-level apartment is inside a four-story, 10-unit walk-up at 345 W. Fourth St., between Horatio and Gansevoort streets. C.K ... 9 ... Getty Images 9 ... 9....
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Fall River's zoning requirements may be changing to fit more apartments. What we know.

The Herald News 01 Apr 2025
FALL RIVERCity developers may be able to fit more units — and renters — into apartment buildings in the A-2 apartment zoning district than ever before ... For a 6-unit apartment building, a lot would have needed to be 20,000 square feet ... The same 6-unit apartment building now requires a 12,500-square-foot lot....
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Council committee to get update on MetroWalk plan in Canyon Country

The Signal 01 Apr 2025
The average density of the project was nearly 25 units per acre, with the maximum allowable at 30 units, a mix of market-rate apartments and townhomes (179), townhomes for sale (150), age-qualified apartments (119) and affordable senior apartments (50) ... of rental apartments.”....

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