Apartment: Difference between revisions

An '''apartment''' ([[American English]]), '''flat''' ([[British English]], [[Indian English]], [[South African English]]){{efn|inIn North America, "flat" may sometimes be used for an apartment that occupies the entirety of a building floor or [[storey]]}}, or '''unit''' ([[Australian English]]) is a self-contained [[housing unit]] (a type of residential [[real estate]]) that occupies part of a building, generally on a single storey. There are many names for these overall buildings (see below). The [[housing tenure]] of apartments also varies considerably, from large-scale [[public housing]], to [[owner occupancy]] within what is legally a [[Condominium (living space)|condominium]] ([[strata title]] or [[commonhold]]), to tenants renting from a private landlord (see [[leasehold estate]]).