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Types of Apartment Buildings

Apartment Block
Apartment Block

A high-rise apartment building is commonly referred to as a residential tower, apartment tower, or block of flats in Australia. A high-rise building is defined by its height differently in various jurisdictions.

Block of Flats
Block of Flats

A high-rise apartment building is commonly referred to as a residential tower, apartment tower, or block of flats in Australia. A high-rise building is defined by its height differently in various jurisdictions.

Bungalow
Bungalow

A bungalow is a type of building, originally developed in the Bengal region in South Asia. The meaning of the word bungalow varies internationally. Common features of many bungalows include verandas and being low-rise. In Australia, the California bungalow associated with the United States was popular after the First World War.

Condominium
Condominium

A building developed as a condominium (and sold in individual units to different owners) could actually be built at another location as an apartment building (the developers would retain ownership and rent individual units to different tenants).

Condominiums
Condominiums

Residential condominiums are frequently constructed as apartment buildings, but there has been an increase in the number of "detached condominiums", which look like single-family homes but in which the yards, building exteriors, and streets are jointly owned and jointly maintained by a community association.

Duplex
Duplex

In North America, a duplex is a dwelling having apartments with separate entrances for two households. This includes two-story houses having a complete apartment on each floor and also side-by-side apartments on a single lot that share a common wall.

Duplex/Triplex
Duplex/Triplex

In North America, a duplex is a dwelling having apartments with separate entrances for two households. This includes two-story houses having a complete apartment on each floor and also side-by-side apartments on a single lot that share a common wall.

House - see List of House Types
House - see List of House Types

This is a list of house types. Houses can be built in a large variety of configurations. A basic division is between free-standing or Single-family houses and various types of attached or multi-user dwellings. Both may vary greatly in scale and amount of accommodation provided.

In Sum
In Sum

Appraising the value of an apartment building. Appraisals for apartment buildings are different than for residential properties. There are 3 methods that will be used side-by-side: 1) market value; 2) replacement cost; and 3) income approach. Market Value Approach. Appraising market value will look at other, similar properties and their selling prices.

Semi-Detached House
Semi-Detached House

Semi-detached houses are the most common property type in the UK. They account for 32% of UK housing transactions and 32% of the English housing stock as of 2008. Between 1945 and 1964, 41% of all properties built were semis, but after 1980 this fell to 15%.

Townhouse
Townhouse

Such a building may be called an apartment building, apartment complex, flat complex, block of flats, tower block, high-rise or, occasionally, mansion block (in British English), especially if it consists of many apartments for rent.

Type 1
Type 1

Garden apartment: this is an apartment with access to a garden. If you have one of these, you'll have lots of visitors in the summer. The term can also mean a basement level apartment. Because the apartment is partially below ground, windows will be higher up on the walls.

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TYPE 2
TYPE 2

Garden apartment: this is an apartment with access to a garden. If you have one of these, you'll have lots of visitors in the summer. The term can also mean a basement level apartment. Because the apartment is partially below ground, windows will be higher up on the walls.

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Type 2: Non-Combustible
Type 2: Non-Combustible

TYPES OF CONSTRUCTION TYPE I ... building elements listed in IBC Table 601 are of non-combustible ... One difference between a heavy timber type IV building and ...

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TYPE 3: ORDINARY
TYPE 3: ORDINARY

TYPE V-A--Protected Wood Frame (Commonly used in the construction of newer apartment buildings; there is no exposed wood visible.) 1 Hr. Exterior Walls 1 Hr. Structural Frame 1 Hr. Floor/Ceiling/Roof TYPE V-B--Unprotected Wood Frame (Examples of Type V-N construction are single family homes and garages.

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TYPE 4: HEAVY TIMBER
TYPE 4: HEAVY TIMBER

Examples: High and mid-rise office buildings, apartments and condo buildings. ISO Class 6- Fire Resistive . Fire resistive for not less than 2 hours for walls, floors and roofs. Typical wall construction is masonry at a minimum of 4 inches thick, hollow masonry is a minimum of 8 inches thick.

TYPE 5: WOOD FRAME
TYPE 5: WOOD FRAME

In the past, developers have tended to stick to wood for garden-style product, generally a two- to four-story walk-up, and relied on concrete and steel materials for buildings taller than four stories. But now, more builders are considering wood for five-story buildings using Type III construction, Anderson says.

Unit
Unit

An apartment (American English), flat (British English) or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building, generally on a single storey.

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