I'd agree most don't. In the US an apartment building can range anywhere from a small house divided into two apartments, to a mega structure taking up a whole city block. Pretty much the same as the UK, I bet, except for the name used to describe it.
A Neophyte, A spit-level is usually a house where the main entrance is onto a small landing with 2 short stair cases, one going to the upper level & anothergoing to the lower level.
Block of flats is an apartment building. A luxury apartment building will sometimes have a doorman and/or concierge. An apartment with stairs is a townhome but only if there's not a unit above or below, otherwise it's just an apartment. A condo is an apartment you own with lots of communal fees. A duplex is a semi detached home. A brownstone is a brick row house with 3-4 floors. A terraced house is a split level home studio is a bedsit. Sometimes called an efficiency. A loft is a flat with no walls. Subdivisions are housing developments, usually gated and sometimes with security. Project housing is a tenement. Ranch style house is just a single level home that is usually rectangular. Bungalow may or may not be single level but more square in shape. It may have 2 levels but not 3. It may also have a basement which is a cellar that the walls are proper walls not dirt.
Rod Westwood hmm... I have been an American all my life and have never seen nor heard of a doorman at an apartment complex. Maybe the office of the complex is open 24/7 but it’s not called a doorman. Lol
Terraced house is not a split level. They are townhouses or row houses. A split level is a style of single family (detached) house in the US that became popular in the 50s and 60s.
Shauna Brennan Doorman buildings are more common in large cities like New York or Chicago. They tend to be high end places where the “other half” live.
Also, I think "roommate" is derived from sharing a room with someone in college. A lot of times, people move into an apartment after the first year of college with their same roommate, so now anyone who lives together are considered roommates
“Roommate” derives from university days where it it common to share a room with a fellow on-campus student, The term then carried over from university days to shared living space after.
Roommate derives from more than one person living together. That could be townhouses, single family houses, dorms, condos, apartments, or even a cabin in the woods. "University days" is ridiculous.
@@sugarkitty4777 I agree. The "university days" explanation wouldn't resonate with many people, since most have never had that experience, so that's not a likely origin for the term. Besides, there's a better explanation: When the word was introduced around 1770, it was very common for unmarried young people to live in lodging houses, where they enjoyed individual bedrooms but generally shared a bathroom/toilet and possibly a sitting room. This gave us the verb "to room", meaning "to occupy a room as a lodger". A term was needed for the kind of relationship these lodgers had, which was closer than neighbors but not as close as family. That term became "roommates", not because they shared a room (noun) but because they roomed (verb) in the same establishment.
Bob D not true. Townhome refers to a home where you receive ownership of the actual land the unit is located on. A flat with stairs is just called a two story.
In Ohio when we say townhouse that just refers to like a house thats split in two basically apartments but its just a house cut in half either upstairs downstairs or side by side
Americans do use the word “bungalow”. I have heard it used when referring to a single level home on/near the beach. Larger homes on the beach are referred to as “beach houses”.
Dana Hebeler that is true, but it’s also a style of home. My home is a 2 story, walk out basement, 5 bedroom bungalow, in the middle of upstate NY. That’s what’s on the title and deed. Not sure what makes it a bungalow, but everyone is shocked how large it is once they are inside because it looks smaller on the outside to them. I have no clue. I inherited it from my grandparents.
Subdivisions are very popular here and most aren't gated. Gated subdivision are gaining in popularity here. Bungalow and Ranch are architectural styles of detached houses here.
Both types are all on one level but to my knowledge Ranch houses are usually a linear floor plan. On an actual ranch they were often enlarged by building on one or both ends.
@@markbernier8434ranch houses can be built in cities too. I live in a city in Missouri and we have tons of ranch houses built in the 1950-60s. It is usually a 3 or 4 bedroom, single story house with a certain architecture look.
I've also heard them referred to as, "corporate housing", as a lot of companies will put up employees traveling to far-flung areas that are working an assignment away from home.
Also in big cities like NYC L.A. and Chicago there are buildings that were originally hotels but became more like apartments with permanent tenants. With concierge, manager and maybe maid services. The ones I have seen are either pretty nice in nice areas or pretty crappy in run down areas. Not much in between.
An apartment "Building" is a single building with apartment "units" in it, as opposed to an apartment "Complex" which is a community of units! Love u guys! ❤
@@TBIhope I live in Indianapolis, in. i hear about ppl buying condo's all the time but not apts, to my knowledge they only rent, and we don't have "squatter's rights" here!
Samuel Miller good! Squatters don’t get rights! Rights come when you purchase or loan a property! That’s interesting about not buying apartments in Indianapolis. I’ve never heard that before! I don’t think it’s common in Michigan, either. But someone I knew moved from Michigan and had to sell their apartment! It’s definitely more common in Utah.
In case nobody beat me to it, here's another one - I live in an "Apartment Complex." It consists of three apartment buildings all under the same management.
I have lived in apartment complexes for my entire adult life. They are usually an entire area of at least 40 or more identical buildings which are either 2 or 3 stories high, with about eight apartments to a building. On the ground floor of each building there will be washing machines and dryers, as well as individual storage units for each apartment. The complex will offer different sized apartments with a different numbers of bedrooms and bathrooms. These apartment complexes will be in a park like setting in the suburbs, with large areas for playing sports, enjoying the park like setting. They will have playgrounds for children. They will have a swimming pool, tennis courts and a basketball court for apartment residents. There will be a management office and a concierge office, with a concierge on duty.
Hello! Katy from Virginia here. Just so ya know, we do have bungalows-I live in one. It is not a ranch style house. While they both are on one floor, a ranch is spread out length wise (it's long to the side) and usually has a living room and kitchen/dinner with a long hall to one side with the bedrooms and bathroom are located. A bungalow as you know is more squared or if it's rectangled (to the back) and may not have a hall at all (mine doesn't ). I hope I didn't confuse you too much. Anyway, I enjoy watching you two. Take care and stay safe.
They are typically larger as well. There are smaller single story houses that are called cottages. I think the concept comes from the large single story homes built by ranchers in the west.
Exactly. They rarely have flat roofs except maybe in the southwest. They’re just single story houses that are more sprawling than bungalows or craftsman style houses. They may have a roof with a lesser pitch than some styles, but rarely flat and still adequate for rain runoff.
Ranch is a direct style & floor plan. You can have a 2 story ranch, but that's usually a ranch with a basement or half basement.. where the basement is a walk out in the back. And MOST Ranch houses on average in the US are all fully bricked. They're like the #1 style house you'll find everywhere in the US because sooooo many were built from the 60s-early 80s.
@@Judy_R agreed.. so many differences depending on where in the US they are. I'm in eastern North Carolina & our ranches traditional do not have garages, but single carports. We don't have basements here because we're so low in elevation. I even grew up in a white brick ranch my parents built in 1977 on one of my family farms that I will one day inherit. Oh & they always had a formal living room plus a separate den. That's why I say.. Ranch styles are very specific floor plans.
I've always heard studio and efficiency as different things. Like a studio has a designated kitchen, bedroom, and livingroom area all without walls separating them out it's still an ok size, but an efficiency is a much smaller version of that where you don't have a designated livingroom area, basically just the bed and kitchen.
Subdivisions are a group of streets and land plots that have been chosen to build new homes on. They usually have 4 or 5 model homes that you can choose from, each model has it's own floor plan. From there, you choose the color, roof, carpet, cabinet and tile from a book.So basically it is new homes on a strict budget, no special additions, so the can put them up literally in a few months and have a brand new home ready.
“Bungalow” comes from a Hindi word meaning belonging to Bengal... the British adopted the word when the area was part of the British empire (how we similarly adopted pyjama into British language) in the uk we refer to single story houses as bungalows, in America maybe they have some Bengalese architecture when they’re multi-storey??
My daughter lives in Naples, Florida and I was amazed at all the "Gated Communities" as the sub-divisions that are gated are called, they have there. The beautiful entrances with palms and lovely landscaping, the community clubhouse and pool! I REALLY feel like I am on vacation when when we visit her! More modern American neighborhoods are bought by a developer who builds all the houses in that neighborhood, and that's called a sub-division. Many have names but not all unless they are gated.
@@biancastepney1517 I am a stickler for definitions and proper wording. Victorian is an era, hence Queen Victoria's reign , 1837-1901. Queen Anne, Second Empire, Italianate, and Eastlake are all styles of architecture.
No, my brother in law is an architect and I can tell you the difference, chalets do have steep roof pitches, but they also have side walls and A frames do not. In a A frame the roof nearly touches the ground. A chalet is not an A frame.
We say bungalow, it's generally an Arts and Crafts style low one or 1/2 stort house, with large covered porches and lots of woodwork/builtin's. Ranch are plainer houses that are generally long and sorta narrow, but the long side faces the street. They have a pitch to their roofs, just not a super steep pitch
It's subdivision. Meaning that a developer bought a large piece of land, and subdivided the property into individual lots where they built houses and sold them individually.
Yes, in Fl, the housing developments are called subdivisions because the huge plot of land they all sit on has been sub divided into individual plots. Many of these subdivisions have gate security men who check who goes in and out for security reasons.
Otta Deef Interesting. “Freehold” is not a term we use in the US. We refer to the concept of also owning the lot as “fee simple”. However, it has nothing to do with rentability in our case. The rules on that vary by association.
Think of it as a multifoor apartment so it’s in a building. Think if iCarly, Spencer and Carly technically live in a duplex because it was a Multi floor appointment
The Duplex is actually different than a semi-detached based on how you described it. We have an equivalent called a "Twin House". A duplex is essentially 2 flats with one on top of the other and they have their own entrance
Bungalow is an actual, distinct architectural style. Simply being small does not make a house a bungalow. A ranch house can be small, but it is never going to be a bungalow. There are also sub-sets of bungalows, i.e. California Bungalow for example.
Architecturally a bungalow has a large swooping/sloping roof down over a front porch with chunky colums. A ranch style is a single level house with smaller pitched roof around a 5 or so.
Bungalow descriptions vary with regions. Beach bungalows, mountain cottages, similar but have differences depending on where it is. Here in North Carolina, a little vacation house in the mountains can be called a cabin, no matter what it’s made of. And some of these “cabins” get pretty big and fancy!
Brownstones are very much in style and configuration as Regency housing in London. Just not quite as elaborate and of course with the different kind of stone. But it is the same concept of a house arranged vertically and attached to a whole row of other houses with stairs going into the front door and often these are broken into smaller apartments in large cities.
When my in-laws first look at moving to Vegas from California, they visited one weekend and came back with about a half-dozen brochures from brand new housing developments and an amazing statistic. At that time, there were TWO HUNDRED AND FOUR BRAND NEW HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS being built in and around Las Vegas consisting of HUNDREDS OF HOUSES EACH! That number not only did not DROP for the next twelve years, IT GREW! Not until the housing crash of '08, which only slowed it down. The Vegas housing boom started in the mid-80s and is still going on.
In the U.S.A.: -Roommates are those who rent/share an apartment unit or a house, with multiple rooms, generally, each having their own bedroom, and yet, all sharing the other common rooms: Kitchen, living room/lounge, laundry room, garage, a screened-in patio or porch, backyard/courtyard, etc. Sometimes the term "roommates" or "roomies" can be quite literal, like when six college students all rent a three-bedroom, unattached house off-campus, and there are two to a room. Even though it can be cramped at times when it comes to space, it can still be less expensive (with everyone sharing the costs) and have more options for privacy, than the student dorms are on campus. -A two-level apartment or house would be called a two-story. -A duplex or a fourplex apartment building is a certain number of separate, attached (meaning the walls) units. You could live in a whole residential neighborhood with all duplex or fourplex apartment buildings, with attached walls/apartment units. They are very similar to condos (condominiums). -A single-family home is an unattached, generally larger house. -Yes, we do say bungalow, when referring to a smaller, one-story, unattached home.
A ranch house started on ranches as the main house the family would live in. The Bunkhouse was where the ranch hands ( ranch employees ) lives. When this style of house began to be built in suburbs and other parts of the city, the name just stuck. We do have bungalows in the US. There can be whole sections of cities that are known for their Craftsman style bungalows. In Los Angeles for example, in portions of the Jefferson Park and most of the West Adams neighborhoods, bungalows take center stage and many are on the city's, state's and national register of historic houses. Bungalows are usually a lot older than other types of houses given they were built in the 1910-20s.
Never knew anyone living in an apartment that had a concierge. You probably came upon that because where you stayed they did. But, on the whole, probably 95% of the time they don't.
That's because most of those building setups are most of the time condominiums. We have 7 different associations that we do contract work for that I'm in almost daily.
Depends on where. It's not always high end/ritzy either. Really large places in US cities have it more based on size than priced paid in rent. I know 1000 unit buildings in NYC that do but the rent is average. Yet in DC I know a building with loads of concierge servces because it's $80k a month.
"Concierge"? Apartment manager with a full-time maintenance staff? Every apartment I ever lived in that wasn't "ghetto". I did live in a few ghettos in my 20s.
A toenhiuse is a row house in more suburban areas arranged in a "town" style instead of say a single row on a city block. A two level apartment in an apartment building is called a duplex apartment.
When I think of Bungalow houses I think about the shape of the outer walls of the house. Usually is a square and smaller by nature compared to lets say a "Ranch" style house which is usually shaped like a rectangle on the outside and is one floor with and attached garage and possibly with a basement.
In my part of Canada (Ontario) we tend to refer to a duplex as single family home that’s been modified and divided up into two living spaces so one can be rented out to a tennant.
"Ranch" style house - Marty McFly's home in Back to the Future is a typical American Ranch. Note the lower pitch of the roof. Many have the garage built on the front or a carport. Some had the garage detached in the back with a side driveway. These were also typically built in subdivisions that started popping up after WWII. Many have huge backyards for cookouts and family home life. Very common style home built during the 50's - 70's in the U.S.
I love this type of video! Very interesting about the housing names. A lot of good info in the comments here. I laughed when you thought apartments had concierge. hahahha Most apts or apt blds are middle or lower class. The very low end are the tenements also called housing or projects, bc of being created by a govt welfare project. I grew up in northern NJ outside of NYC by 15 min. We called the tall apt blds in NYC high rise apts or high rises. I think a high end apt bld would be a doorman bld. Bungalows are a specific architecture style. I've heard of them by the sea in New England or anywhere along the east coast. I grew up in a duplex. It was side by side full 3 story Victorian type house in Nutley, NJ. Right next to Montclair. Good neighborhood. We always called lower end or mass produced duplex or row houses townhouses. They usually were laid out front to back and very narrow, but had multiple floors. Ranch is simply a one story house. Fun stuff.
Where your parents live at in Florida Joel is called a subdivision, not a division. A subdivision is a neighborhood of houses built by same builder that may have several styles selected for that subdivision. Also a slang term for the houses in a subdivision can be referenced as cookie cutter houses -- meaning they all are very similar in appearance such as a batch of cookies made from a cookie cutter...hahahaha
“Condo” is owned and occupied. But the difference is all condo owners then become part of the “Condo Association.” And they do no lawn/outside maintenance of their condo.
A condo can be rented out by the owner most of the time. Condo owner's also have meetings and vote on matters. An apartment has a management group that owns the buildings and make decisions without tenant approval.
@David Roberts "Condo" is a legal term that essentially means "an individually owned portion of an otherwise single property". In other words, a single plot of land is officially subdivided into separate, deeded tax-lots and the individual owners own their tax-lot within the larger property. I don't think an entity is legally allowed to call itself "condo" if the conversion process hasn't been filed. When you buy a condo, you receive a deed just like any other property and its yours. If someone can throw you out, then its not a condo and I'd bet that the word "condo" isn't actually written anywhere. People in your scenario might casually call it "condo", but I guarantee that the word "condo" isn't in any contract.
Most of the time, a condo association does not include lawn and sidewalk maintenance. Condo association fees pay for lot maintenance. In our area, at least, the condos associations that take care of outside work own the yard. You only purchase your home itself. They usually let you plant flowers where you want, but there can be limits. With zero lot line homes you basically own the inside of your home. With a zero lot line you're dependent upon the condo association to repair roofs, outside walls, etc. Some small condos don't have associations.
@@meomy29 Condo association fees pay for the common areas of the development, like if there is a clubhouse with a pool, the fees will pay for the electricity for the clubhouse and the maintenance of the pool. The fees will also pay for the gym equipment if there is a common gym for the residents. Sidewalks are common property and ALWAYS maintained by the association. Sometimes your front landscaping is included when the association makes a bulk deal with a landscaping company and you can opt-out if you don't want them touching your stuff.
@@xNYCMarc Not all condos are large buildings and they don't always have associations or any monthly fees. Smaller developments may have individual entrances so each condo owner is responsible for their own sidewalks. These types of developments have agreements about building and roof maintenance. Developments like this don't have landscaping, gyms, pools, etc. I'd just about bet that the definition of the term "condo" varies from one city to another. We live outside a big town so there probably is one or two developments like you describe. That type of condo development is rare around here. It might be because, although the nearby city is pretty big (couple hundred thousand in the general area), it's nothing like NY, Chicago, or other huge cities.
JJ367 very few basements in California. Hard to find one. Especially in Northern California the water table is too high in a lot of Northern California so they flood too often.
I would say that some ranch houses have a basement and some do not, out West like Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, the ground is so hard that it's too expensive and difficult to dig a basement so it's just not cost effective and so they are a lot less common in housing, but in the midwest where I live (near Chicago, Illinois) most houses have a basement also, housing near the ocean or even close to one of the great lakes will less likely have a basement because they are more likely to flood and fill with water
I live in a suburb of Phoenix and we call our subdivision "Rancho El Mirage". We have both one and two story houses in our development. We don't call them "bungaloes" we just call them one or two story homes. Most subdivisions are not gated communities--because they usually have really expensive homeowner's association fees. Ours isn't gated. Phoenix is a great place to live, warm and DRY! I would never move back to the midwest. You don't have to shovel the sunshine! lol
What you kept calling a “division” is actually called a “subdivision” or, more commonly, a “neighborhood”. lol Do y’all really not have those in the UK?
Correct......they missed the subdivision completely. It is simply a subdivision of a larger piece of land into smaller lots for houses, with connecting streets, and utilities provided. I have approved subdivisions of 5,000 to 7,000 homes in Central Texas, but elsewhere in the US, a typical subdivision would be 100 homes or less.
Don Reynolds I disagree with the “under 100 homes” part of your comment. I’m in FL and my subdivision is fairly small at just over 400 homes. My grandmother’s house was in a subdivision with several subdivisions that are part of a larger subdivided area (they’re all over here, most communities are are like that here) and the overall subdivision was probably 2,000 homes.
We have a ranch house in a housing development lol A ranch house is a style and usually 1 story but the roof is just a normal roof like any other roof. They are not flat
But I do have a lower pitch roof than the British are used to and one can see flat roofed single story homes out west, though I don’t think people would call them ranch style.
Thanks for making me laugh! I really enjoyed this video. I remember the very first time I heard the word "flat" was when Princess Diana got engaged to Charles and they mentioned she lived in a flat with roommates. I was unsure what a "flat" was. But that was in 1980. I actually love that term now and wish we used it here instead of 'apartment". Much love from Jean xo
There are multiple 'grades' of apartment buildings in the US. ~ At the high end are condominiums (aka condos) and luxury apartments - same general amenities, though the former units are owned individually (usually by the tenants) while the latter are owned collectively by a real estate company. These are the ones with doormen, concierges, valets, and the like. ~ In the middle are the standard-grade apartments - fairly nice amenities, basic washer & dryer, decent sized, but that's about it. An on-call maintenance crew and an on-site office that keeps banker's hours (like 10 AM to 3 PM), but no other staff. ~ Low end apartments are pretty bare-bones - 1 or 2 bedrooms, small bathroom, and you're lucky if you find one that has a full-sized stove. No in-unit laundry facilities, and maybe half even have a laundromat on the premises. ~ And then there are the PJs (aka Project Housing) - sizes and plans vary, but bare-bones throughout. In the US "roommate" basically just means someone that you share a residence with but that's the only relation between you - husband, girlfriend, children, etc aren't "roommates". Same as a "flatmate", the main criterion is that you both/all have a key to the front door. "Maisonete" sounds very much like the "Town House" in the US - kitchen, living room, laundry, and a half-bath (aka water closet) on the ground floor; two or three bedrooms and at least one full bathroom upstairs. There are also some three-story Town House designs which include a garage and laundry on the ground floor; kitchen, living room, and half-bath on the second floor; two or three bedrooms and at least one full bathroom on the third floor. A newer design in some areas adds an additional floor below the top level which is one huge master suite (huge bedroom with private bath, walk-in closets, a semi-private area for a nursery or home office, etc). There are a wide range of "plexes" in the US - the duplex is the most common; basically one 'house' but has two separate units which share one common wall. Less common are the triplex (three in a row; a duplex with one additional unit in-between) and quadraplex (same, but with two middle units). Think "single-story Maisonetes". Plexes are somewhat unique to the US owing to how residential zoning works. There's a lot to be said for single-family detached homes, but situations arise where more housing is needed - duplexes, in particular, increase the number of residents in a given neighborhood while still presenting the general appearance of single-family homes. While some neighborhoods (via HOAs - Home Owners' Associations) can be excessively anal, there's a general propensity for all homes in a given neighborhood to share a general aesthetic. Standing directly in front of a plex it's obvious that there are multiple units but, simply glancing down the street, you generally can't discern a plex from a single-family home. Think about it like this - A single building with multiple rental units has: ~ one level of single-story units; it's a duplex/triplex/quadriplex. ~ one level of multi-story units which lack basements; it's a town house. ~ one level of multi-story units which have basements; it's a row house (aka "brownstone"). ~ multiple levels of (usually single-story) units; it's an apartment.
Apartment hotels are mostly called “long term stay hotels” and usually include a small suite with a kitchenette. Apart from that there may be rental apartments for short term stays at least to individuals or families in town on business or vacation. Condominiums - privately owner occupied -are often bought by individuals in resort areas and then used only a couple of weeks a year by the owner and rented out to vacationers especially during the high season for gobs of money. A duplex is typically a two flat house often two stories, sort of like side-by-side maisonettes but freestanding not necessarily semi-detached. Often seen in areas near what you would call council housing. Ranch style homes are typically one floor in which all the rooms are connected by central hall and a lower arched roof. Sometimes they are L or C-shaped as opposed to a simple straight row of rooms. They are quite common in the south and the west and may or may not have a basement depending upon the soil type and cost. They are often described as “starter homes” and disparagingly as “shoeboxes”. They can range from three bedroom/2 bath all the way up to five or seven bedrooms and four or five baths. All on one level depending upon the cost of land. Bungalows are typically a word used to describe houses built between 1900-30 in a certain style originating in India but considered classic American with strong Japanese influence. They come in a multiplicity of styles and can be one or two stories. Bungalow is also an old fashion term for a small vacation or starter home.
@@kanstrand a Realtor is a real estate agent who is a member of the National Association of Realtors. I believe the organization only covers the US and Canada.
Your terraced houses are what we would call “rowhouses” or more commonly known as a townhouses (or sometimes called brownstones bc townhouses were made with a type of sandstone that turned brown)-US person that loves your channel!
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An apartment can have stairs or 1 floor. Apartments here in the 🇺🇸 can be in a building with units only attached to each other or attached and stacked on top of each other. These can also be called condos or condominiums. We also have places called duplexes where 2 individual homes are attached in the middle. Usually they have a backyard that is either shared or a fence down the middle to divide them. I have seen huge duplexes like 2 houses just stuck together like siamese twins. Lol I have never heard of an apartment hotel. No a sub division doesn't have to be gated. Its basically how they plot out land. The definition of subdivision an area of land divided into plots for sale. "Subdivision" means the division of a lot, tract, or parcel of land into two or more lots, plats, sites, or other divisions of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or of building development. Not all are gated and not all have concierge services. Thats just for rich people lol No a ranch style house is just meaning its all on one level has nothing to do with the roof pitch. Ranch is a domestic architectural style originating in the United States. The ranch-style house is noted for its long, close-to-the-ground profile, and wide open layout.
When you purchase a place for a month and then you can rent it out for a week or two if you are not planning on being there that long, , that is a timeshare.
Efficiency is rarely used anymore, most people will say studio apartment. Only time I’ve seen it used in the last 15 years or so was if it was one of those apartments above someone’s garage they want to rent out.
@@melaniel.peiskee6738 they used to say efficiency kitchens and I think that began to denote like a studio with a minuscule kitchen, sans many of the amenities.
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The closest thing we have is flat with stairs would be maybe a duplex which is what I live in. A duplex is the term for a semi detached that you rent rather then own. And yeah roommate = flat mate. I would see it as more person we share rooms with (?) it that makes sense
An apartment hotel is usually a older hotel that no longer in an area where many people are staying for a short time anymore. It’s higher priced for its square footage because a lot of times it continues to have the ground floor amenities of a hotel (cafe ,restaurant, barbershop or salon, in house laundry and shoe service.
Frank Lloyd Wright was responsible for the “ Ranch House “ concept. It is a single level home ( sometimes it can be a split level home, if the rest of the house conforms to the basic concept ) with a shallow angled peaked roof ( think of a basic house shape that has been pushed down flattish and pulled out longish ). In the original concept, the long low roofline was considered to be visually non intrusive into the natural environment. It is called a ranch style house because it resembles the bunk houses from the southwest ranches. “ Apartment hotels “ are mostly referred to by the nomenclature “Extended stay hotels “. These would be hotels that one might stay in for months at a go, rather than a few days or weeks. Here’s a question: why are they called “ APARTments “ when they are all stuck together?
Sorry this is incorrect. Although Wright did bring to promenice the open floor plan concept shared with typical ranch house designs. Credit should be awarded to Joseph Eichler for what is typically attribute to ranch house design. Wright designed for the wealthy and in California Joseph Eichler developed ranch tract houses enmasse.
Joe Yoone Please note the Willey house by Wright. It is the first of Wrights simpler designs, and has the floor plan and primary aspects of a “ rambler “ ( the Midwest terminology of “ ranch-style “ ) . The Willey house is a transition piece between Wrights original design ethic and his later “ Usonian “ designs. Eichler was inspired by Wright in his open floor plan ranch style houses mass marketed to the buying public.Wrights “ Prairie style “ designs are the proto ranch homes ( although the luxurious prairie style designs would hardly seem to have much in common with the minimalistic ranch styles that would come ) the open floor plans, long,low roof profile and the unobtrusive overall profile hark to ranch homes to come.
I grew up in the town where Frank Lloyd Wright's career first began (Oak Park, Illinois) and loved his work, my sister's best friend's parents owned the Moore house, I think it was called... so cool inside...
3:43 I live in a condominium-townhouse with 2 rooms up, 2.5 rooms down and a full bathroom upstairs. It also has a foyer shared with the townhouse on the other side and a back stairway stairway shared the same way that leads to the basements, which are separated and mostly finished. The main thing about the term "condo" or condominium is that it can be any kind of housing unit, an apartment, townhouse, semi-detached or even a detached house, but like a "common hold" it is legally part of a trust that funds the management and maintenance of the grounds, facilities and parts of the building that are considered commonly owned (my roof and heating systems would be examples of that).
What they described sounded more like a suite hotel to me. Like a Holiday Inn Express - aimed at business travelers often. Often a bedroom & sitting room with a kitchenette.
I’ve only just started to see apartment hotels in the last few years, and I think they’re likely only in areas with a lot of tourists/visitors and lax laws regarding AirBnBs They’re apartment buildings that are entirely operated as vacation rentals through sites like that. The developers manage to operate a hotel without offering the full range of services you’d usually expect (like daily cleaning) and in many cities they avoid hotel taxes as well because they claim to be apartments that could be rented long term like normal housing (although their rates are really only attractive on a short-term basis). And because the units are all apartment-style, if they need to they could at any time switch quite easily to just renting it out as a normal apartment building. In which case I’m sure that concierge services in the lobby would largely disappear-at most, there would be a line rental agent/building superintendent stationed down there.
Unless in Florida a lot of subdivisions and upscale apartments are gated. I hated it. I moved to Georgia in a new subdivision with no gate or guard. Costs the homeowners a lot to have gated security.
Yes we have bungalows; that usually refers to a very small cozy cottage type place, a little hide away, a love nest for trysts, a romantic getaway, a lake cottage... Whereas ranch houses are Usually one level, but can be split level, meaning two or three steps down into the living area or dining area, or couple of steps up to the kitchen or down into the den, couple more to the garage which is usually attached, and they are sprawling long houses so that you can see all of your huge ranch or hacienda can be seen from the long wide windows
Condominiums are apartments/flats in a building owned by someone privately. Usually real estate firms do this in places like Florida (FL). Apartments are flats owned by a specific company, they get rented out monthly. We call them apartments because they're apart of the building and the insides are usually built alike.
So many terms all at once. lol. We have Ranch homes as well as Bungalows, they are separate things. You'll find a lot of older bungalow style homes in Florida and along the East coast. Bungalows are more closely related to a single story cottage with a broad porch. I agree with others that a maisonette would just be a townhome on our side of the pond.
-An apartment with stairs is a townhome. -A duplex/ triplex/quadplex is a property split with multiple living arrangements. -A studio is an apartment that doesn't have any rooms, they don't have to be a crammed small space. A housing development after its been around a while is just a neighborhood,
Bungalow can also refer to a small, one story house, typically in an older working class neighborhood. The term is rarely used for mountain homes. I’ve lived in mountains in both eastern and western US, and small mountain homes are typically referred to as cabins, whether built from logs, or not. Small homes near a beach, or lake, are often called cottages.
A bungalow is typical modest home with a porch or veranda. You typically enter the front door into the living room with a fireplace rather than a hallway. Small kitchens, not servants rooms. 1 to 1.5 level. Exterior is made of wood shingles or stucco, sometimes stone or brick in colder areas. But the porch and low height make it different from the tradtional home of 2 levels maybe a basement, entry into a hallway.
SkiingIsMyHappyPlace Bliss perhaps it’s a regional thing. I’m in NYC. I’ve heard people refer to their vacation homes in the mountains down south as bungalows. When they go north, they do tend to say cottage.
"Roommates" - a very Brit answer - Think, Sherlock Holmes and Watson. They each had their own bedrooms but shared a "common room". See? You guys invented it before we did.
In the US a bungalow is a one level house with a compact and efficient floor plan. Usually quite small in square footage. They're also frequently built raised a half story up for some reason I've never understood. They were a very very popular affordable housing option in the mid 20th century that really helped explode "suburbia". A great kind of house for someone who just wants a little plot in the burbs to raise a few kids basically. At this point a ranch house is essentially just a big bungalow. Single level but bigger and more sprawling and not raised up at all. It was originally the style of house you would find on a ranch/farm basically so meant for a plot with a little more room to spread out.
I live near Albany, NY. A Flatt to us is an existing 1-3 floor house that's split into apartments on each floor. So a full floor apartment in a formerly 1 family house is a Flatt. If there's 2 or more Apartments on your floor it's just an apartment. So if you have a Flatt, it's typically a larger apt in a house.
teamcougars “Condominium” doesn’t depend on which city you’re in. It’s an ownership structure. A condominium can be a townhouse or a single level unit. It depends on how the property is owned.
Debbie C A “flat with stairs” is only a townhouse if it doesn’t have other apartments above and or below it. Townhouses only have neighbors on the sides, not above and below them. We have maisonettes here in the US too. They just aren’t as widespread. Maisonettes have two or three levels, like townhouses, but there will be other apartments above and or below your unit.
They are common. An old downtown hotel is made into municipal tenements. Here in Honolulu, the old Blaisdell Hotel is such. Other residential hotels were for long stay businessmen or Army/Navy officers. The Pleasanton was one of these from the 20s-50s. It was near Punahou School, where Obama went grad, our highest "Preppie" school.
They’re really common in vacation areas. Many east coast coastal cities like Myrtle Beach, SC is full of them and people can stay for a short or long time, but while there, they still have some of the conveniences of home, such as a kitchen.
A "condotel" is a lodging that is a hybrid of a condominium and hotel, by being operated as a commercial hotel even though the units are individually owned. A condotel has rental and reservation desks, short-term occupancy, food and telephone services, and daily cleaning services.
Kait Rox Council houses are never free of charge. Even if the tenants receive Housing Benefit that is paid by the tax payer and the Landlord still receives the money for the property
@@melaniel.peiskee6738 No, not necessarily. It's basically a government housing program that allows people who can't afford places on their own to rent a house or an apartment. The places that are available to them are determined by the landlords willingness to follow "section 8" rules and regulations - those places are deemed section 8 eligible. The person on government assistance than is afforded so much money per month to rent from one of these places, usually needing to pay a small portion of it directly.
The apt/condo distinction is true throughout the United States, however in New York City, people often refer to condos as apartments, despite it being own vs rented.
I usually use the door on my right, because in the US we drive on the right side of the road, so it just feels more natural / safe (to avoid collisions). I also walk on the right side of a sidewalk when sharing a sidewalk with people walking in the opposite direction. And it's not just me. Most people I observe walking or going through doors, up or down stairs, etc tend to stick to the right side of whichever direction they are facing. But for people that don't drive, (many residents of NYC for example), this trend might not be as common or ingrained because the "stay to the right" mentality has not become instinctive to them. But please, if one door says Exit, and the other says Enter, use the correct door, regardless of which side it is on.
Garden complexes are blocks of apartments contained in a patch of land, sometimes has pools and gardens. Not a big tall building, just like 2 stories but all attached together. Sometimes they are Condo's (purchased) sometimes you just pay rent per month.
Official definition of duplex: “a house divided into two apartments, with a separate entrance for each.” In the illustration of this definition, they show a single story duplex and a two-story duplex which means the two-story duplex units also have stairways. But regardless of whether it has a stairway or not, I think the difference between a townhouse and a duplex is a duplex only has two units where a townhouse is several units connected together in row of houses.
Fred Flintstone Yes, that is ONE definition of “duplex” in certain areas of the US : A “two-family” or a building that has two separate apartments. But in large / old cities like NYC and Chicago, a “duplex” is another name for “maisonette”: An apartment that has more than one floor and has other apartments above and or below it. Some will say “Oh, that’s a townhouse”, but the difference is that a townhouse doesn’t have apartments above and below it. Only neighbors on the sides.
Masonette is called a “townhouse” in America
CrunchyASMR84 - or Townehome
For sure a townhouse but normally two bathrooms in a townhouse.
What's a maisonette? A condo is called a townhouse in Australia.
A townhouse is usually one story, a condo, two.
I've always thought of a condo as an apartment or townhome that you own, not that you rent in the US.
An apartment building doesn't necessarily have a lobby and/or conceirge.
Most don’t
Exactly we have “club house” for amenities-gym, tanning bed. These are rented for parties for a fee.
I'd agree most don't. In the US an apartment building can range anywhere from a small house divided into two apartments, to a mega structure taking up a whole city block. Pretty much the same as the UK, I bet, except for the name used to describe it.
I think they stayed at hotels lol
@@kaylynkremblas689 sounds like they stayed in NY or LA fancy places.
Block of flats = apartment building and if it’s a whole neighborhood of them it’s an apartment complex.
As an American myself, I agree. Apartment complex for a large conglomeration of apartment buildings.
Ha, I was like wtf is a block of flats 🤦♂️ I thought they was talkin bout grass 🤦♂️
And they aren't always nice there are slews of disgusting apartments in a complex places are dumps. You enter one like a motel.
No mention of the Co-op apartment setup where the tenant society votes on all issues involving the building.
A Masionette sounds like an American Town House.
My first thought would have been split-level.
A Neophyte, A spit-level is usually a house where the main entrance is onto a small landing with 2 short stair cases, one going to the upper level & anothergoing to the lower level.
I agree, town house.
It sounds exactly like a townhouse!
Could be townhouse, but that might be a row house too.
Block of flats is an apartment building. A luxury apartment building will sometimes have a doorman and/or concierge. An apartment with stairs is a townhome but only if there's not a unit above or below, otherwise it's just an apartment. A condo is an apartment you own with lots of communal fees. A duplex is a semi detached home. A brownstone is a brick row house with 3-4 floors. A terraced house is a split level home studio is a bedsit. Sometimes called an efficiency. A loft is a flat with no walls. Subdivisions are housing developments, usually gated and sometimes with security. Project housing is a tenement. Ranch style house is just a single level home that is usually rectangular. Bungalow may or may not be single level but more square in shape. It may have 2 levels but not 3. It may also have a basement which is a cellar that the walls are proper walls not dirt.
That is a well done explanation!👍🏻
Rod Westwood hmm... I have been an American all my life and have never seen nor heard of a doorman at an apartment complex. Maybe the office of the complex is open 24/7 but it’s not called a doorman. Lol
Semi attached house 🤷♀️a duplex is 2 homes attached together. They are attached not semi attached
Terraced house is not a split level. They are townhouses or row houses. A split level is a style of single family (detached) house in the US that became popular in the 50s and 60s.
Shauna Brennan Doorman buildings are more common in large cities like New York or Chicago. They tend to be high end places where the “other half” live.
Also, I think "roommate" is derived from sharing a room with someone in college. A lot of times, people move into an apartment after the first year of college with their same roommate, so now anyone who lives together are considered roommates
“Roommate” derives from university days where it it common to share a room with a fellow on-campus student, The term then carried over from university days to shared living space after.
Roommate derives from more than one person living together. That could be townhouses, single family houses, dorms, condos, apartments, or even a cabin in the woods. "University days" is ridiculous.
Sugar Kitty ... and you’re an idiot.
“Housemate” is very common, aka how I met my husband 😉
@@sugarkitty4777 I agree. The "university days" explanation wouldn't resonate with many people, since most have never had that experience, so that's not a likely origin for the term. Besides, there's a better explanation: When the word was introduced around 1770, it was very common for unmarried young people to live in lodging houses, where they enjoyed individual bedrooms but generally shared a bathroom/toilet and possibly a sitting room. This gave us the verb "to room", meaning "to occupy a room as a lodger". A term was needed for the kind of relationship these lodgers had, which was closer than neighbors but not as close as family. That term became "roommates", not because they shared a room (noun) but because they roomed (verb) in the same establishment.
A flat with stairs is a townhouse or townhouse apartment.
Bob D not true. Townhome refers to a home where you receive ownership of the actual land the unit is located on. A flat with stairs is just called a two story.
In Ohio when we say townhouse that just refers to like a house thats split in two basically apartments but its just a house cut in half either upstairs downstairs or side by side
@@ltaken2589 Rest of the country calls that a duplex
@@johnbowers6258 makes sense not the most stupid thing happening in Ohio 😂😂
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I’d say that “condo” in the woods is a cabin.
Americans do use the word “bungalow”. I have heard it used when referring to a single level home on/near the beach. Larger homes on the beach are referred to as “beach houses”.
Usually quite small houses near the beach.
I'm American and owned a bungalow for years. It wasn't on a beach.
Dana Hebeler that is true, but it’s also a style of home. My home is a 2 story, walk out basement, 5 bedroom bungalow, in the middle of upstate NY. That’s what’s on the title and deed. Not sure what makes it a bungalow, but everyone is shocked how large it is once they are inside because it looks smaller on the outside to them. I have no clue. I inherited it from my grandparents.
It is a somewhat outmoded term.
Dana Hebeler bungalow is a specific architectural style but a lot of Americans use it to mean “small house” which is just wrong.
Subdivisions are very popular here and most aren't gated. Gated subdivision are gaining in popularity here. Bungalow and Ranch are architectural styles of detached houses here.
Both types are all on one level but to my knowledge Ranch houses are usually a linear floor plan. On an actual ranch they were often enlarged by building on one or both ends.
Another American word for subdivision is ‘tract’.
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@@markbernier8434ranch houses can be built in cities too. I live in a city in Missouri and we have tons of ranch houses built in the 1950-60s. It is usually a 3 or 4 bedroom, single story house with a certain architecture look.
Subdivisions are usually developed by a single contractor who bought a large tract of land and “subdivided” into individual lots for purchase
Apartment hotels in the US are coined, "extended stay" hotels.
I've also heard them referred to as, "corporate housing", as a lot of companies will put up employees traveling to far-flung areas that are working an assignment away from home.
Also in big cities like NYC L.A. and Chicago there are buildings that were originally hotels but became more like apartments with permanent tenants. With concierge, manager and maybe maid services.
The ones I have seen are either pretty nice in nice areas or pretty crappy in run down areas. Not much in between.
I always called them a residence hotel. Think of Eloise at the Plaza
An apartment "Building" is a single building with apartment "units" in it, as opposed to an apartment "Complex" which is a community of units!
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There are apartments that are bought in the US. Specifically in New York, but I'm sure there are other cities that do the same.
Janet Bousho yeah I’ve lived in Utah and Michigan, and people buy apartments both of those places.
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I live in Indianapolis, in. i hear about ppl buying condo's all the time but not apts, to my knowledge they only rent, and we don't have "squatter's rights" here!
Samuel Miller good! Squatters don’t get rights! Rights come when you purchase or loan a property! That’s interesting about not buying apartments in Indianapolis. I’ve never heard that before! I don’t think it’s common in Michigan, either. But someone I knew moved from Michigan and had to sell their apartment! It’s definitely more common in Utah.
@@samuelmiller4964 a "Complex" is a group of buildings owned by the same landlord and grouped together.
In case nobody beat me to it, here's another one - I live in an "Apartment Complex." It consists of three apartment buildings all under the same management.
That's a tiny complex!
I have lived in apartment complexes for my entire adult life. They are usually an entire area of at least 40 or more identical buildings which are either 2 or 3 stories high, with about eight apartments to a building. On the ground floor of each building there will be washing machines and dryers, as well as individual storage units for each apartment. The complex will offer different sized apartments with a different numbers of bedrooms and bathrooms. These apartment complexes will be in a park like setting in the suburbs, with large areas for playing sports, enjoying the park like setting. They will have playgrounds for children. They will have a swimming pool, tennis courts and a basketball court for apartment residents. There will be a management office and a concierge office, with a concierge on duty.
I live in apartment complex, 3 (two story) buildings surrounding a landscaped common area. 40 units(apartments).
Hello! Katy from Virginia here. Just so ya know, we do have bungalows-I live in one. It is not a ranch style house. While they both are on one floor, a ranch is spread out length wise (it's long to the side) and usually has a living room and kitchen/dinner with a long hall to one side with the bedrooms and bathroom are located. A bungalow as you know is more squared or if it's rectangled (to the back) and may not have a hall at all (mine doesn't ). I hope I didn't confuse you too much. Anyway, I enjoy watching you two. Take care and stay safe.
A "ranch house" is typically one level. It may have a pitched roof.
They are typically larger as well. There are smaller single story houses that are called cottages. I think the concept comes from the large single story homes built by ranchers in the west.
Exactly. They rarely have flat roofs except maybe in the southwest. They’re just single story houses that are more sprawling than bungalows or craftsman style houses. They may have a roof with a lesser pitch than some styles, but rarely flat and still adequate for rain runoff.
To be more exact, ranch houses have low-pitched roofs.
Ranch is a direct style & floor plan. You can have a 2 story ranch, but that's usually a ranch with a basement or half basement.. where the basement is a walk out in the back. And MOST Ranch houses on average in the US are all fully bricked. They're like the #1 style house you'll find everywhere in the US because sooooo many were built from the 60s-early 80s.
@@Judy_R agreed.. so many differences depending on where in the US they are. I'm in eastern North Carolina & our ranches traditional do not have garages, but single carports. We don't have basements here because we're so low in elevation. I even grew up in a white brick ranch my parents built in 1977 on one of my family farms that I will one day inherit. Oh & they always had a formal living room plus a separate den. That's why I say.. Ranch styles are very specific floor plans.
We say "Studio Apartment" too.
The term "they" are trying to coin is "Efficiency" to entice people to go with it and feel better about. it.
It’s also called a bachelor apartment...
It used to be called efficiency back in the 70s and 80s when they were not that common. Then make them sound fancier they started calling them Studio
I've always heard studio and efficiency as different things. Like a studio has a designated kitchen, bedroom, and livingroom area all without walls separating them out it's still an ok size, but an efficiency is a much smaller version of that where you don't have a designated livingroom area, basically just the bed and kitchen.
Subdivisions are a group of streets and land plots that have been chosen to build new homes on. They usually have 4 or 5 model homes that you can choose from, each model has it's own floor plan. From there, you choose the color, roof, carpet, cabinet and tile from a book.So basically it is new homes on a strict budget, no special additions, so the can put them up literally in a few months and have a brand new home ready.
You mentioned that you call a stand alone house a "detached", we tend to call it a "single family home".
I just call ours a house.
Or a house
“Bungalow” comes from a Hindi word meaning belonging to Bengal... the British adopted the word when the area was part of the British empire (how we similarly adopted pyjama into British language) in the uk we refer to single story houses as bungalows, in America maybe they have some Bengalese architecture when they’re multi-storey??
I feel like most American live in single family homes that are detached
nowthatsjustducky But is it a detached, semi detached or terraced house?
Ranch house refers to the house being a single level.
And usually the living room or family room is open to the kitchen and dining area.
There's also executive ranchers. Those are larger than normal, and I think they are in an L shape.
We call that a bungalow
@@liglyhuse9058 I just see a bungalow as a cozy house.
Allison Jae a bungalow is a house that is only one level so there’s no upstairs
My daughter lives in Naples, Florida and I was amazed at all the "Gated Communities" as the sub-divisions that are gated are called, they have there. The beautiful entrances with palms and lovely landscaping, the community clubhouse and pool! I REALLY feel like I am on vacation when when we visit her! More modern American neighborhoods are bought by a developer who builds all the houses in that neighborhood, and that's called a sub-division. Many have names but not all unless they are gated.
I stopped cleaning because I thought Joel & Lia were talking to me through the TV when they said Maisonette
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"Bungalow" and "ranch-style" are types of housing styles, like colonial, Georgian, Victorian, etc.
The word 'Bungalow" comes from Hindi "Bangla". Brits imported the word from their then colony.
Victorian is not a style, it is an era. Queen Anne is a style.
@@wesleypeters4112 In the US we call them Victorian style homes
@@biancastepney1517 I am a stickler for definitions and proper wording. Victorian is an era, hence Queen Victoria's reign , 1837-1901. Queen Anne, Second Empire, Italianate, and Eastlake are all styles of architecture.
@@wesleypeters4112 You being a stickler doesn't change that it also a style lmao
Homes with Steep slopes roofs are known as "A" frame homes. Depending on what part of the country you live in, they also are refered to "chalets".
No, my brother in law is an architect and I can tell you the difference, chalets do have steep roof pitches, but they also have side walls and A frames do not. In a A frame the roof nearly touches the ground. A chalet is not an A frame.
We not only have a duplex, but also triplex and quad. One building with 3 units or 4,
Then there's the simi detached house.. that at the end of the day is just a duplex 🤣
I personally love when yall dont do reasearch! I LOVE just seeing your point of view and your understanding of things❤
We say bungalow, it's generally an Arts and Crafts style low one or 1/2 stort house, with large covered porches and lots of woodwork/builtin's. Ranch are plainer houses that are generally long and sorta narrow, but the long side faces the street. They have a pitch to their roofs, just not a super steep pitch
Thank you! A bungalow is not just a small house. It's a specific architectural style of house from the Arts and Crafts period.
It's subdivision. Meaning that a developer bought a large piece of land, and subdivided the property into individual lots where they built houses and sold them individually.
Condo is owned but also has Monthly fees for any extras like a pool or workout rooms etc.
Yes, but these fees are collected by the homeowner's association within the condo building, rather than by a landlord.
Condo and HOA owners own a percentage interest in the association itself, which is a legal corporation.
Yes, in Fl, the housing developments are called subdivisions because the huge plot of land they all sit on has been sub divided into individual plots. Many of these subdivisions have gate security men who check who goes in and out for security reasons.
Condos are rented out sometimes by the owner. A condo can be like an apartment, townhouse or a semi dettached house
Yes, although in Canada, "condo" is increasingly used to describe a freehold apartment to distinguish it from a rental apartment.
@@ottadeef6291 but an owner can rent them out. At least in Windsor they do.
Otta Deef Interesting. “Freehold” is not a term we use in the US. We refer to the concept of also owning the lot as “fee simple”. However, it has nothing to do with rentability in our case. The rules on that vary by association.
What about duplexes? Two houses mashed into one, with separate entrances.
Semi-detached, I believe.
Two houses with a common wall. A concept of multi-family housing that pre-dated condominiums.
They covered that in the video the call them semi-detached
And a "division' is a *subdivision*
Think of it as a multifoor apartment so it’s in a building. Think if iCarly, Spencer and Carly technically live in a duplex because it was a Multi floor appointment
American here~I just found your videos and am enjoying them tremendously! Thank you for always speaking so respectful about our culture/way of life.
In Los Angeles and California in general, bungalows are everywhere for sale. They are small cottages usually selling in the millions.
A bungalow can be quite large and a cottage can be enormous,, even manor house size.
intallpines we have bungalows in Northern California also.
Division ... I think you mean Subdivision. Literally any "neighborhood" in the suburbs is a subdivision.
They are generally named for the land developer.
A subdivision is part of a larger housing development.
The Duplex is actually different than a semi-detached based on how you described it. We have an equivalent called a "Twin House". A duplex is essentially 2 flats with one on top of the other and they have their own entrance
In Minnesota, Never heard of a Twin House. I usually hear Side by side duplex
We do sometimes say "Bungalow" but it typically means a small house.
Bungalow is an actual, distinct architectural style. Simply being small does not make a house a bungalow. A ranch house can be small, but it is never going to be a bungalow. There are also sub-sets of bungalows, i.e. California Bungalow for example.
Yes we definitely have bungalows. I grew up in a brick bungalow in Chicago, a distinct style of bungalow that was popular in Chicago in the 1920s
Architecturally a bungalow has a large swooping/sloping roof down over a front porch with chunky colums. A ranch style is a single level house with smaller pitched roof around a 5 or so.
Doesn't a bungalow have a large porch entry, where you can have a swing and table with chairs. My friend in Utah has this and it's called a bungalow.
Bungalow descriptions vary with regions. Beach bungalows, mountain cottages, similar but have differences depending on where it is. Here in North Carolina, a little vacation house in the mountains can be called a cabin, no matter what it’s made of. And some of these “cabins” get pretty big and fancy!
Brownstones are very much in style and configuration as Regency housing in London. Just not quite as elaborate and of course with the different kind of stone. But it is the same concept of a house arranged vertically and attached to a whole row of other houses with stairs going into the front door and often these are broken into smaller apartments in large cities.
When my in-laws first look at moving to Vegas from California, they visited one weekend and came back with about a half-dozen brochures from brand new housing developments and an amazing statistic. At that time, there were TWO HUNDRED AND FOUR BRAND NEW HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS being built in and around Las Vegas consisting of HUNDREDS OF HOUSES EACH! That number not only did not DROP for the next twelve years, IT GREW! Not until the housing crash of '08, which only slowed it down. The Vegas housing boom started in the mid-80s and is still going on.
In the U.S.A.:
-Roommates are those who rent/share an apartment unit or a house, with multiple rooms, generally, each having their own bedroom, and yet, all sharing the other common rooms: Kitchen, living room/lounge, laundry room, garage, a screened-in patio or porch, backyard/courtyard, etc. Sometimes the term "roommates" or "roomies" can be quite literal, like when six college students all rent a three-bedroom, unattached house off-campus, and there are two to a room. Even though it can be cramped at times when it comes to space, it can still be less expensive (with everyone sharing the costs) and have more options for privacy, than the student dorms are on campus.
-A two-level apartment or house would be called a two-story.
-A duplex or a fourplex apartment building is a certain number of separate, attached (meaning the walls) units. You could live in a whole residential neighborhood with all duplex or fourplex apartment buildings, with attached walls/apartment units. They are very similar to condos (condominiums).
-A single-family home is an unattached, generally larger house.
-Yes, we do say bungalow, when referring to a smaller, one-story, unattached home.
Debórah Lee a bungalow is either one or two stories.
Yes, a division is actually called a sub-division.
Subdivisions, In the high school halls, in the shopping malls. Be cool or be cast out. ("Subdivisions" by Rush)
And, while it technically qualifies as a real estate subdivision, I’d say it sounds like Joel’s parents’ Florida home is in a “gated community”.
A ranch house started on ranches as the main house the family would live in. The Bunkhouse was where the ranch hands ( ranch employees ) lives. When this style of house began to be built in suburbs and other parts of the city, the name just stuck. We do have bungalows in the US. There can be whole sections of cities that are known for their Craftsman style bungalows. In Los Angeles for example, in portions of the Jefferson Park and most of the West Adams neighborhoods, bungalows take center stage and many are on the city's, state's and national register of historic houses. Bungalows are usually a lot older than other types of houses given they were built in the 1910-20s.
I live in a “townhouse” we have our kitchen,living room and a half bath downstairs and three bedrooms and a full bathroom upstairs.
Never knew anyone living in an apartment that had a concierge. You probably came upon that because where you stayed they did. But, on the whole, probably 95% of the time they don't.
We call that "On site Security" in certain Apartment complexes here in Las Vegas. :)
Ritzy apt may have. It would be an up charge.
NY. Thing! Anywhere up North that’s upper class
That's because most of those building setups are most of the time condominiums. We have 7 different associations that we do contract work for that I'm in almost daily.
Depends on where. It's not always high end/ritzy either. Really large places in US cities have it more based on size than priced paid in rent. I know 1000 unit buildings in NYC that do but the rent is average. Yet in DC I know a building with loads of concierge servces because it's $80k a month.
Not all apartments have a conceirge. None of the apartments I lived in had one.
If you have a conceirge you are rich or how do you spell it booshy?
Heck no.. that would be an expensive apt complex
"Concierge"? Apartment manager with a full-time maintenance staff? Every apartment I ever lived in that wasn't "ghetto". I did live in a few ghettos in my 20s.
I would call a “2 up 2 down” a townhouse. However so many terms are regional, like you only find brownstones in the east where brick is prevalent.
You’re correct.
The stone came from the NJ Palisades and is no longer attainable.
A toenhiuse is a row house in more suburban areas arranged in a "town" style instead of say a single row on a city block. A two level apartment in an apartment building is called a duplex apartment.
Actually Chicago has an area of old Brownstones where the wealthy live.
...and the west coast is earthquake country.
When I think of Bungalow houses I think about the shape of the outer walls of the house. Usually is a square and smaller by nature compared to lets say a "Ranch" style house which is usually shaped like a rectangle on the outside and is one floor with and attached garage and possibly with a basement.
In my part of Canada (Ontario) we tend to refer to a duplex as single family home that’s been modified and divided up into two living spaces so one can be rented out to a tennant.
"Ranch" style house - Marty McFly's home in Back to the Future is a typical American Ranch. Note the lower pitch of the roof. Many have the garage built on the front or a carport. Some had the garage detached in the back with a side driveway. These were also typically built in subdivisions that started popping up after WWII. Many have huge backyards for cookouts and family home life. Very common style home built during the 50's - 70's in the U.S.
I love this type of video! Very interesting about the housing names. A lot of good info in the comments here. I laughed when you thought apartments had concierge. hahahha Most apts or apt blds are middle or lower class. The very low end are the tenements also called housing or projects, bc of being created by a govt welfare project. I grew up in northern NJ outside of NYC by 15 min. We called the tall apt blds in NYC high rise apts or high rises. I think a high end apt bld would be a doorman bld. Bungalows are a specific architecture style. I've heard of them by the sea in New England or anywhere along the east coast. I grew up in a duplex. It was side by side full 3 story Victorian type house in Nutley, NJ. Right next to Montclair. Good neighborhood. We always called lower end or mass produced duplex or row houses townhouses. They usually were laid out front to back and very narrow, but had multiple floors. Ranch is simply a one story house. Fun stuff.
Where your parents live at in Florida Joel is called a subdivision, not a division. A subdivision is a neighborhood of houses built by same builder that may have several styles selected for that subdivision. Also a slang term for the houses in a subdivision can be referenced as cookie cutter houses -- meaning they all are very similar in appearance such as a batch of cookies made from a cookie cutter...hahahaha
“Condo” is owned and occupied. But the difference is all condo owners then become part of the “Condo Association.” And they do no lawn/outside maintenance of their condo.
A condo can be rented out by the owner most of the time. Condo owner's also have meetings and vote on matters. An apartment has a management group that owns the buildings and make decisions without tenant approval.
@David Roberts "Condo" is a legal term that essentially means "an individually owned portion of an otherwise single property". In other words, a single plot of land is officially subdivided into separate, deeded tax-lots and the individual owners own their tax-lot within the larger property. I don't think an entity is legally allowed to call itself "condo" if the conversion process hasn't been filed. When you buy a condo, you receive a deed just like any other property and its yours. If someone can throw you out, then its not a condo and I'd bet that the word "condo" isn't actually written anywhere. People in your scenario might casually call it "condo", but I guarantee that the word "condo" isn't in any contract.
Most of the time, a condo association does not include lawn and sidewalk maintenance. Condo association fees pay for lot maintenance. In our area, at least, the condos associations that take care of outside work own the yard. You only purchase your home itself. They usually let you plant flowers where you want, but there can be limits. With zero lot line homes you basically own the inside of your home. With a zero lot line you're dependent upon the condo association to repair roofs, outside walls, etc.
Some small condos don't have associations.
@@meomy29 Condo association fees pay for the common areas of the development, like if there is a clubhouse with a pool, the fees will pay for the electricity for the clubhouse and the maintenance of the pool. The fees will also pay for the gym equipment if there is a common gym for the residents. Sidewalks are common property and ALWAYS maintained by the association. Sometimes your front landscaping is included when the association makes a bulk deal with a landscaping company and you can opt-out if you don't want them touching your stuff.
@@xNYCMarc Not all condos are large buildings and they don't always have associations or any monthly fees. Smaller developments may have individual entrances so each condo owner is responsible for their own sidewalks. These types of developments have agreements about building and roof maintenance. Developments like this don't have landscaping, gyms, pools, etc.
I'd just about bet that the definition of the term "condo" varies from one city to another. We live outside a big town so there probably is one or two developments like you describe. That type of condo development is rare around here. It might be because, although the nearby city is pretty big (couple hundred thousand in the general area), it's nothing like NY, Chicago, or other huge cities.
I used to live in a ranch. It’s just a house where everything is on one floor. The roof isn’t flat and it does have a basement.
A ranch can have a basement, but not a second floor.
JJ367 very few basements in California. Hard to find one. Especially in Northern California the water table is too high in a lot of Northern California so they flood too often.
I would say that some ranch houses have a basement and some do not, out West like Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, the ground is so hard that it's too expensive and difficult to dig a basement so it's just not cost effective and so they are a lot less common in housing, but in the midwest where I live (near Chicago, Illinois) most houses have a basement
also, housing near the ocean or even close to one of the great lakes will less likely have a basement because they are more likely to flood and fill with water
@@kanstrand and need one in tornado season!
I live in a suburb of Phoenix and we call our subdivision "Rancho El Mirage". We have both one and two story houses in our development. We don't call them "bungaloes" we just call them one or two story homes. Most subdivisions are not gated communities--because they usually have really expensive homeowner's association fees. Ours isn't gated. Phoenix is a great place to live, warm and DRY! I would never move back to the midwest. You don't have to shovel the sunshine! lol
What you kept calling a “division” is actually called a “subdivision” or, more commonly, a “neighborhood”. lol
Do y’all really not have those in the UK?
they think of neighborhoods more like a whole section of the city, where we would call it a suburb. idk though
I believe they call them "housing estates".
I consider the neighborhood to consist of the housing and the people.
Correct......they missed the subdivision completely. It is simply a subdivision of a larger piece of land into smaller lots for houses, with connecting streets, and utilities provided. I have approved subdivisions of 5,000 to 7,000 homes in Central Texas, but elsewhere in the US, a typical subdivision would be 100 homes or less.
Don Reynolds I disagree with the “under 100 homes” part of your comment. I’m in FL and my subdivision is fairly small at just over 400 homes. My grandmother’s house was in a subdivision with several subdivisions that are part of a larger subdivided area (they’re all over here, most communities are are like that here) and the overall subdivision was probably 2,000 homes.
I just moved into a two-floor apartment and we call it a duplex. I'm in NJ.
Rob I : usually, side by side home.
That’s more of a town house isn’t it
@@tarynriver It is, but they consider it a two floor apartment because we don't own it. There is also no yard or anything
In DE, a duplex is two houses that share a common wall. When looking at it, it almost looks like one house.
Never heard of an apartment hotel and I’m born and raised in the USA 🤔
Extended stay hotels like Marriott Residence Inn are apartment hotels.
Suite?
@@amandachilders9939 A suite has a living room and bed room. Not just one room.
i think disney has them, they call the rooms villas they ae like little appartments with several rooms used by long stay residents or families
Executive suits in Alabama. Short term housing
We have a ranch house in a housing development lol
A ranch house is a style and usually 1 story but the roof is just a normal roof like any other roof. They are not flat
But I do have a lower pitch roof than the British are used to and one can see flat roofed single story homes out west, though I don’t think people would call them ranch style.
Thanks for making me laugh! I really enjoyed this video. I remember the very first time I heard the word "flat" was when Princess Diana got engaged to Charles and they mentioned she lived in a flat with roommates. I was unsure what a "flat" was. But that was in 1980. I actually love that term now and wish we used it here instead of 'apartment". Much love from Jean xo
Way back when I first heard of an English "flat" it made me think of the shoes called flats. lol Like living in a shoe!
There are multiple 'grades' of apartment buildings in the US.
~ At the high end are condominiums (aka condos) and luxury apartments - same general amenities, though the former units are owned individually (usually by the tenants) while the latter are owned collectively by a real estate company. These are the ones with doormen, concierges, valets, and the like.
~ In the middle are the standard-grade apartments - fairly nice amenities, basic washer & dryer, decent sized, but that's about it. An on-call maintenance crew and an on-site office that keeps banker's hours (like 10 AM to 3 PM), but no other staff.
~ Low end apartments are pretty bare-bones - 1 or 2 bedrooms, small bathroom, and you're lucky if you find one that has a full-sized stove. No in-unit laundry facilities, and maybe half even have a laundromat on the premises.
~ And then there are the PJs (aka Project Housing) - sizes and plans vary, but bare-bones throughout.
In the US "roommate" basically just means someone that you share a residence with but that's the only relation between you - husband, girlfriend, children, etc aren't "roommates". Same as a "flatmate", the main criterion is that you both/all have a key to the front door.
"Maisonete" sounds very much like the "Town House" in the US - kitchen, living room, laundry, and a half-bath (aka water closet) on the ground floor; two or three bedrooms and at least one full bathroom upstairs. There are also some three-story Town House designs which include a garage and laundry on the ground floor; kitchen, living room, and half-bath on the second floor; two or three bedrooms and at least one full bathroom on the third floor. A newer design in some areas adds an additional floor below the top level which is one huge master suite (huge bedroom with private bath, walk-in closets, a semi-private area for a nursery or home office, etc).
There are a wide range of "plexes" in the US - the duplex is the most common; basically one 'house' but has two separate units which share one common wall. Less common are the triplex (three in a row; a duplex with one additional unit in-between) and quadraplex (same, but with two middle units). Think "single-story Maisonetes".
Plexes are somewhat unique to the US owing to how residential zoning works. There's a lot to be said for single-family detached homes, but situations arise where more housing is needed - duplexes, in particular, increase the number of residents in a given neighborhood while still presenting the general appearance of single-family homes. While some neighborhoods (via HOAs - Home Owners' Associations) can be excessively anal, there's a general propensity for all homes in a given neighborhood to share a general aesthetic. Standing directly in front of a plex it's obvious that there are multiple units but, simply glancing down the street, you generally can't discern a plex from a single-family home.
Think about it like this - A single building with multiple rental units has:
~ one level of single-story units; it's a duplex/triplex/quadriplex.
~ one level of multi-story units which lack basements; it's a town house.
~ one level of multi-story units which have basements; it's a row house (aka "brownstone").
~ multiple levels of (usually single-story) units; it's an apartment.
Apartment hotels are mostly called “long term stay hotels” and usually include a small suite with a kitchenette. Apart from that there may be rental apartments for short term stays at least to individuals or families in town on business or vacation. Condominiums - privately owner occupied -are often bought by individuals in resort areas and then used only a couple of weeks a year by the owner and rented out to vacationers especially during the high season for gobs of money. A duplex is typically a two flat house often two stories, sort of like side-by-side maisonettes but freestanding not necessarily semi-detached. Often seen in areas near what you would call council housing.
Ranch style homes are typically one floor in which all the rooms are connected by central hall and a lower arched roof. Sometimes they are L or C-shaped as opposed to a simple straight row of rooms. They are quite common in the south and the west and may or may not have a basement depending upon the soil type and cost. They are often described as “starter homes” and disparagingly as “shoeboxes”. They can range from three bedroom/2 bath all the way up to five or seven bedrooms and four or five baths. All on one level depending upon the cost of land.
Bungalows are typically a word used to describe houses built between 1900-30 in a certain style originating in India but considered classic American with strong Japanese influence. They come in a multiplicity of styles and can be one or two stories. Bungalow is also an old fashion term for a small vacation or starter home.
your confusing them. WTF are you talking about?
@@mick55 it made perfect sense to me 🤷
I'm a Realtor in the US, loved watching this! I wish I could have talked to you through the video and answered your questions!
I wonder if the word "Realtor" (seller of homes/real estate) is a word used in the UK, now you've got me wondering!
@@kanstrand a Realtor is a real estate agent who is a member of the National Association of Realtors. I believe the organization only covers the US and Canada.
@@kanstrand
we call them estate agents
@@kanstrand The term often used is Real Estate Agent
Your terraced houses are what we would call “rowhouses” or more commonly known as a townhouses (or sometimes called brownstones bc townhouses were made with a type of sandstone that turned brown)-US person that loves your channel!
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@Thomas Johnson Yes.
This is great guys! Perhaps one of the most FAQs I have from students (and friends). There is a lot of confusion about this topic. You did a fine job clearing this up. Really appreciate it. Thanks! L&C 👍 ♥️😘 🇬🇧
An apartment can have stairs or 1 floor. Apartments here in the 🇺🇸 can be in a building with units only attached to each other or attached and stacked on top of each other. These can also be called condos or condominiums. We also have places called duplexes where 2 individual homes are attached in the middle. Usually they have a backyard that is either shared or a fence down the middle to divide them. I have seen huge duplexes like 2 houses just stuck together like siamese twins. Lol
I have never heard of an apartment hotel.
No a sub division doesn't have to be gated. Its basically how they plot out land.
The definition of subdivision
an area of land divided into plots for sale.
"Subdivision" means the division of a lot, tract, or parcel of land into two or more lots, plats, sites, or other divisions of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or of building development.
Not all are gated and not all have concierge services. Thats just for rich people lol
No a ranch style house is just meaning its all on one level has nothing to do with the roof pitch.
Ranch is a domestic architectural style originating in the United States. The ranch-style house is noted for its long, close-to-the-ground profile, and wide open layout.
We also call a Duplex a “Double”.
ITSB INDY duplex is one building that is two apartments.
When you purchase a place for a month and then you can rent it out for a week or two if you are not planning on being there that long, , that is a timeshare.
Oh, timeshares are a way bigger suck than that
Divisions are designed by developers and are single family homes of varying sizes and lot sizes. These are usually found in Suburban areas.
I’ve never heard efficient housing or bedsit. From what I know, people just call it a studio apartment or a studio?
Sarah S. Efficiency apartments are basically studios sometimes they will have a small bedroom. Studio is the most common way to list it.
@@theheartyaerie I lived in a efficiency back in 1998 I paid $310 a month oh to pay that kind cheap of rent again 😄
Efficiency is rarely used anymore, most people will say studio apartment. Only time I’ve seen it used in the last 15 years or so was if it was one of those apartments above someone’s garage they want to rent out.
@@melaniel.peiskee6738 they used to say efficiency kitchens and I think that began to denote like a studio with a minuscule kitchen, sans many of the amenities.
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The closest thing we have is flat with stairs would be maybe a duplex which is what I live in. A duplex is the term for a semi detached that you rent rather then own. And yeah roommate = flat mate. I would see it as more person we share rooms with (?) it that makes sense
An apartment hotel is usually a older hotel that no longer in an area where many people are staying for a short time anymore. It’s higher priced for its square footage because a lot of times it continues to have the ground floor amenities of a hotel (cafe ,restaurant, barbershop or salon, in house laundry and shoe service.
So interesting! Thanks J & L ❤
Frank Lloyd Wright was responsible for the “ Ranch House “ concept. It is a single level home ( sometimes it can be a split level home, if the rest of the house conforms to the basic concept ) with a shallow angled peaked roof ( think of a basic house shape that has been pushed down flattish and pulled out longish ). In the original concept, the long low roofline was considered to be visually non intrusive into the natural environment. It is called a ranch style house because it resembles the bunk houses from the southwest ranches. “ Apartment hotels “ are mostly referred to by the nomenclature “Extended stay hotels “. These would be hotels that one might stay in for months at a go, rather than a few days or weeks. Here’s a question: why are they called “ APARTments “ when they are all stuck together?
Sorry this is incorrect. Although Wright did bring to promenice the open floor plan concept shared with typical ranch house designs. Credit should be awarded to Joseph Eichler for what is typically attribute to ranch house design. Wright designed for the wealthy and in California Joseph Eichler developed ranch tract houses enmasse.
Joe Yoone Please note the Willey house by Wright. It is the first of Wrights simpler designs, and has the floor plan and primary aspects of a “ rambler “ ( the Midwest terminology of “ ranch-style “ ) . The Willey house is a transition piece between Wrights original design ethic and his later “ Usonian “ designs. Eichler was inspired by Wright in his open floor plan ranch style houses mass marketed to the buying public.Wrights “ Prairie style “ designs are the proto ranch homes ( although the luxurious prairie style designs would hardly seem to have much in common with the minimalistic ranch styles that would come ) the open floor plans, long,low roof profile and the unobtrusive overall profile hark to ranch homes to come.
I grew up in the town where Frank Lloyd Wright's career first began (Oak Park, Illinois) and loved his work, my sister's best friend's parents owned the Moore house, I think it was called... so cool inside...
3:43 I live in a condominium-townhouse with 2 rooms up, 2.5 rooms down and a full bathroom upstairs. It also has a foyer shared with the townhouse on the other side and a back stairway stairway shared the same way that leads to the basements, which are separated and mostly finished. The main thing about the term "condo" or condominium is that it can be any kind of housing unit, an apartment, townhouse, semi-detached or even a detached house, but like a "common hold" it is legally part of a trust that funds the management and maintenance of the grounds, facilities and parts of the building that are considered commonly owned (my roof and heating systems would be examples of that).
Apartment Hotel are better known as “bed in breakfast or BnB”
Bed and breakfast
What they described sounded more like a suite hotel to me. Like a Holiday Inn Express - aimed at business travelers often. Often a bedroom & sitting room with a kitchenette.
I’ve only just started to see apartment hotels in the last few years, and I think they’re likely only in areas with a lot of tourists/visitors and lax laws regarding AirBnBs They’re apartment buildings that are entirely operated as vacation rentals through sites like that. The developers manage to operate a hotel without offering the full range of services you’d usually expect (like daily cleaning) and in many cities they avoid hotel taxes as well because they claim to be apartments that could be rented long term like normal housing (although their rates are really only attractive on a short-term basis). And because the units are all apartment-style, if they need to they could at any time switch quite easily to just renting it out as a normal apartment building. In which case I’m sure that concierge services in the lobby would largely disappear-at most, there would be a line rental agent/building superintendent stationed down there.
It sounded like a long term hotel rental (rent by the week) to me.
@@brettrabideau4632 --- agree, didn't sound like a Bed & breakfast at all to me.
It's all over the us and it's called subdivisions, and hardly any of them are gated
Unless in Florida a lot of subdivisions and upscale apartments are gated. I hated it. I moved to Georgia in a new subdivision with no gate or guard. Costs the homeowners a lot to have gated security.
Yes we have bungalows; that usually refers to a very small cozy cottage type place, a little hide away, a love nest for trysts, a romantic getaway, a lake cottage...
Whereas ranch houses are Usually one level, but can be split level, meaning two or three steps down into the living area or dining area, or couple of steps up to the kitchen or down into the den, couple more to the garage which is usually attached, and they are sprawling long houses so that you can see all of your huge ranch or hacienda can be seen from the long wide windows
A rancher really has nothing to do with the roof it's more that it's all one level. Theres no upstairs or downstairs.
Agreed i live in a ranch house very spread out but one level.
I live in a ranch with a finished basement...we call it a raised ranch ( from the outside it looks like one level)
A lot of these American terms mostly come from New York, like "brownstone"
Brownstones often have an exterior stair up to the main floor and sometimes another apartment flat half a story down.
Condominiums are apartments/flats in a building owned by someone privately. Usually real estate firms do this in places like Florida (FL). Apartments are flats owned by a specific company, they get rented out monthly. We call them apartments because they're apart of the building and the insides are usually built alike.
Love the topic of this video, fun fun!!
You guys had me cracking up!!😂😂
Love you guys!💗🌷
So many terms all at once. lol. We have Ranch homes as well as Bungalows, they are separate things. You'll find a lot of older bungalow style homes in Florida and along the East coast. Bungalows are more closely related to a single story cottage with a broad porch. I agree with others that a maisonette would just be a townhome on our side of the pond.
-An apartment with stairs is a townhome.
-A duplex/ triplex/quadplex is a property split with multiple living arrangements.
-A studio is an apartment that doesn't have any rooms, they don't have to be a crammed small space.
A housing development after its been around a while is just a neighborhood,
I’ve only ever heard bungalow used in reference to a small vacation home.
“I have a bungalow at the beach,” or “I’m visiting my mountain bungalow.”
Basically a ranch style house I think
Bungalow can also refer to a small, one story house, typically in an older working class neighborhood. The term is rarely used for mountain homes. I’ve lived in mountains in both eastern and western US, and small mountain homes are typically referred to as cabins, whether built from logs, or not. Small homes near a beach, or lake, are often called cottages.
A bungalow is typical modest home with a porch or veranda. You typically enter the front door into the living room with a fireplace rather than a hallway. Small kitchens, not servants rooms. 1 to 1.5 level. Exterior is made of wood shingles or stucco, sometimes stone or brick in colder areas. But the porch and low height make it different from the tradtional home of 2 levels maybe a basement, entry into a hallway.
saybanana - that’s a good description.
SkiingIsMyHappyPlace Bliss perhaps it’s a regional thing. I’m in NYC. I’ve heard people refer to their vacation homes in the mountains down south as bungalows. When they go north, they do tend to say cottage.
"Roommates" - a very Brit answer - Think, Sherlock Holmes and Watson. They each had their own bedrooms but shared a "common room". See? You guys invented it before we did.
In the US a bungalow is a one level house with a compact and efficient floor plan. Usually quite small in square footage. They're also frequently built raised a half story up for some reason I've never understood. They were a very very popular affordable housing option in the mid 20th century that really helped explode "suburbia". A great kind of house for someone who just wants a little plot in the burbs to raise a few kids basically. At this point a ranch house is essentially just a big bungalow. Single level but bigger and more sprawling and not raised up at all. It was originally the style of house you would find on a ranch/farm basically so meant for a plot with a little more room to spread out.
Joel "carefully selected other people". LOLOLOL....love it !!
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Idk why but it is very pleasing to here "tomato" in a British accent.
I live near Albany, NY. A Flatt to us is an existing 1-3 floor house that's split into apartments on each floor. So a full floor apartment in a formerly 1 family house is a Flatt. If there's 2 or more Apartments on your floor it's just an apartment. So if you have a Flatt, it's typically a larger apt in a house.
“flat with stairs” is a townhouse
Debbie C or sometimes a condominium depending on the city you live in or what coast you live on.
teamcougars “Condominium” doesn’t depend on which city you’re in. It’s an ownership structure. A condominium can be a townhouse or a single level unit. It depends on how the property is owned.
Debbie C A “flat with stairs” is only a townhouse if it doesn’t have other apartments above and or below it. Townhouses only have neighbors on the sides, not above and below them. We have maisonettes here in the US too. They just aren’t as widespread. Maisonettes have two or three levels, like townhouses, but there will be other apartments above and or below your unit.
No because a townhouse isn’t in a apartment a duplex is a better name because it’s a apartment that has two floor
Never heard the term apartment hotel in the US
Extended stay is the proper term for apartment style hotels.
They are common. An old downtown hotel is made into municipal tenements. Here in Honolulu, the old Blaisdell Hotel is such. Other residential hotels were for long stay businessmen or Army/Navy officers. The Pleasanton was one of these from the 20s-50s. It was near Punahou School, where Obama went grad, our highest "Preppie" school.
They’re really common in vacation areas. Many east coast coastal cities like Myrtle Beach, SC is full of them and people can stay for a short or long time, but while there, they still have some of the conveniences of home, such as a kitchen.
They are the motels that are used as apartments, sometimes referred to as crack motels.
home2 suites by hilton locations have full complete kitchens, and room dividers for longer stays.
A "condotel" is a lodging that is a hybrid of a condominium and hotel, by being operated as a commercial hotel even though the units are individually owned. A condotel has rental and reservation desks, short-term occupancy, food and telephone services, and daily cleaning services.
Subsidized housing for low income people is called section 8 housing in the U S. I believe it is called council housing in England
Kait Rox Council houses are never free of charge. Even if the tenants receive Housing Benefit that is paid by the tax payer and the Landlord still receives the money for the property
I’ve never heard of section 8 housing, is it the same thing as a housing project, or simply projects?
@@melaniel.peiskee6738 No, not necessarily. It's basically a government housing program that allows people who can't afford places on their own to rent a house or an apartment. The places that are available to them are determined by the landlords willingness to follow "section 8" rules and regulations - those places are deemed section 8 eligible. The person on government assistance than is afforded so much money per month to rent from one of these places, usually needing to pay a small portion of it directly.
I love the American Houses vs British Houses, thank you, Joel and Lia! ❤🏠
The apt/condo distinction is true throughout the United States, however in New York City, people often refer to condos as apartments, despite it being own vs rented.
I’m curious. When approaching a double door do you enter from the left door or right door?
Someone please answer this! Now I’m intrigued! Is the sidewalk etiquette to walk to one’s left also?
I usually use the door on my right, because in the US we drive on the right side of the road, so it just feels more natural / safe (to avoid collisions). I also walk on the right side of a sidewalk when sharing a sidewalk with people walking in the opposite direction. And it's not just me. Most people I observe walking or going through doors, up or down stairs, etc tend to stick to the right side of whichever direction they are facing. But for people that don't drive, (many residents of NYC for example), this trend might not be as common or ingrained because the "stay to the right" mentality has not become instinctive to them. But please, if one door says Exit, and the other says Enter, use the correct door, regardless of which side it is on.
A duplex is a house that's divided in two
Garden complexes are blocks of apartments contained in a patch of land, sometimes has pools and gardens. Not a big tall building, just like 2 stories but all attached together. Sometimes they are Condo's (purchased) sometimes you just pay rent per month.
"Not necessarily in the US, but in Florida" - we in the rest of the US feel the same way, Joel. XD
Wrong, guys. A duplex is a two dwelling home, or two small houses slapped together.
Official definition of duplex:
“a house divided into two apartments, with a separate entrance for each.”
In the illustration of this definition, they show a single story duplex and a two-story duplex which means the two-story duplex units also have stairways. But regardless of whether it has a stairway or not, I think the difference between a townhouse and a duplex is a duplex only has two units where a townhouse is several units connected together in row of houses.
I’ve always heard this called a Two-Family
Fred Flintstone Yes, that is ONE definition of “duplex” in certain areas of the US : A “two-family” or a building that has two separate apartments. But in large / old cities like NYC and Chicago, a “duplex” is another name for “maisonette”: An apartment that has more than one floor and has other apartments above and or below it. Some will say “Oh, that’s a townhouse”, but the difference is that a townhouse doesn’t have apartments above and below it. Only neighbors on the sides.