Major categories in World

 

Apartment - An individual unit in a multi-unit building. The boundaries of the apartment are generally defined by a perimeter of locked or lockable doors. Often seen in multi-story apartment buildings.

Multi-family house - Often seen in multi-story detached buildings, where each floor is a separate apartment or unit.

Terraced house (a.k.a. townhouse or rowhouse) - A number of single or multi-unit buildings in a continuous row with shared walls and no intervening space.

Condominium - Building or complex, similar to apartments, owned by individuals. Common grounds and common areas within the complex are owned and shared jointly. There are townhouse or rowhouse style condominiums as well.

Cooperative (a.k.a. co-op) - A type of multiple ownership in which the residents of a multi-unit housing complex own shares in the cooperative corporation that owns the property, giving each resident the right to occupy a specific apartment or unit.

Duplex - Two units with one shared wall. (in UK, a duplex is an apartment on more than one storey)

Single-family detached home

Portable dwellings

Mobile homes - Potentially a full-time residence which can be (might not in practice be) movable on wheels.

Houseboats - A floating home

Tents - Usually very temporary, with roof and walls consisting only of fabric-like material.

The size of an apartment or house can be described in square feet or meters. In the United States, this includes the area of "living space", excluding the garage and other non-living spaces. The "square meters" figure of a house in Europe may report the total area of the walls enclosing the home, thus including any attached garage and non-living spaces, which makes it important to inquire what kind of surface definition has been used.

It can be described more roughly by the number of rooms. A studio apartment has a single bedroom with no living room (possibly a separate kitchen). A one-bedroom apartment has a living or dining room separate from the bedroom. Two bedroom, three bedroom, and larger units are common. (A bedroom is defined as a room with a closet for clothes storage.)

 

Major categories in Pakistan and the Asian Subcontinent

 

Co-operative Housing Societies (CHS)

Condominiums

Builder flats

Chawls

Villas

Kothis

Havelis

Independent Floors

Lal Dora - Where people carry out commercial and residential activities both.

 

The size is measured in Gaz (square yards), Quila, Marla, Beegha, and acre.