APARTMENT

Apartment
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"Tenement" redirects here. For the concept in property law, see Tenement (law).
For other uses, see Apartment (disambiguation).
An apartment estate in Singapore. Such blocks make up the majority of both public housing and housing in general in Singapore.
A living room in Avalon Riverview North, a New York city luxury apartment building, United States.
An apartment complex in Gurgaon, India.
A red brick apartment block in Limehouse, on the north bank of the Thames, London, England

An apartment (in US English) or flat (in British English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building. Such a building may be called an apartment building, especially if it consists of many apartments for rent. Apartments may be owned by an owner/occupier or rented by tenants (two types of housing tenure).

The term apartment is favored in North America, whereas the term flat is commonly, but not exclusively, used in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and most Commonwealth countries.

In Malaysian English, flat often denotes a housing block of lesser quality meant for lower-income groups, while apartment is more generic and may also include luxury condominiums.

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