This is to make it clear to some purchasers that you have a somewhat clear understanding, are fully prepared to listen too and deal with Real Estate Agents. They will use words in their language that can throw people like yourself off, words like Californian Bungalow, Terrace House & Town House etc.
Most of us have a general understanding but need that extra knowledge that your response to descriptions of what type of real estate is being described to you is completely understanding.
Let Real Estate agents know you understand what they say using their terminology. They might even take a better interest in what you say and how you respond!
House:
1. building in which people live; residence for human
beings.
Cottage:
A small house, usually of only one story. A small, modest house at a lake, mountain resort,
etc., owned or rented as a vacation home.One of a
group of small, separate houses, as for patients at a
hospital, guests at a hotel, or students at a boarding
school.
Duplex:
duplex apartment
noun
duplex house
noun
a house having separate apartments for two families, especially a two-story house having a complete apartment on each floor and two separate entrances.
Free Standing house:
A single-family detached home, also
called a single-detached
dwelling or separate
This house is a free-standing residential
building. It is defined in opposition to
a multi-family dwelling.
Mansion
1. A very large, impressive, or stately residence.
Town House:
noun
Unit:
u·nit
Villa:
Duplex:
Bungalow:
noun
Most of us have a general understanding but need that extra knowledge that your response to descriptions of what type of real estate is being described to you is completely understanding.
Let Real Estate agents know you understand what they say using their terminology. They might even take a better interest in what you say and how you respond!
House:
1. building in which people live; residence for human
beings.
2.
a household
Cottage:
A small house, usually of only one story. A small, modest house at a lake, mountain resort,
group of small, separate houses, as for patients at a
hospital, guests at a hotel, or students at a boarding
school.
Duplex:
duplex apartment
noun
an apartment with rooms on two connected floors.
noun
a house having separate apartments for two families, especially a two-story house having a complete apartment on each floor and two separate entrances.
Free Standing house:
A single-family detached home, also
called a single-detached
dwelling or separate
This house is a free-standing residential
building. It is defined in opposition to
a multi-family dwelling.
Mansion
1. A very large, impressive, or stately residence.
noun
1.
a house in the city, especially as distinguished from a house in the country owned by the same
person.
person.
2.
a luxurious house in a large city, occupied entirely by one family.
3.
one of a row of houses joined by common side walls
Unit:
u·nit
noun
1.
a single thing or person.
2.
any group of things or persons regarded as an entity: They formed a cohesive unit.
3.
one of the individuals or groups that together constitute a whole; one of the parts or elements into
which a whole may be divided or analyzed.
which a whole may be divided or analyzed.
4.
one of a number of things, organizations, etc., identical or equivalent in function or form: a rental unit; a unit of rolling stock.
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Villa:
vil·la
[vil-uh]
Duplex:
duplex apartment
noun
an apartment with rooms on two connected floors.
duplex house
noun
a house having separate apartments for two families, especially a two- story
house having a complete apartment on each floor and two separate entrances.
Bungalow:
bun·ga·low
[buhng-guh-loh]noun
1.
a cottage of one story.
2.
(in India) a one-storied
thatched or tiled house, usually surrounded by a veranda.
3.
Terrace Houses
s]
(in the U.S.) a derivation of the Indian house type, popular especially during the first quarter of the20th century, usually having one and a half stories, a widely bracketed gable roof, and a
multi-indowed
dormer and frequently built of rustic materials.
multi-indowed
dormer and frequently built of rustic materials.
Terrace Houses
ter·race
[ter-uhs]
noun
1.
a raised level with a vertical or sloping front or
sides faced with masonry, turf, or the like,
especially one of a series of levels rising one
above another.
sides faced with masonry, turf, or the like,
especially one of a series of levels rising one
above another.
2.
the top of such a construction, used as a platform, garden, road, etc.
3.
a nearly level strip of land with a more or less
abrupt descent along the margin of the sea, a
lake, or a river.
abrupt descent along the margin of the sea, a
lake, or a river.
4.
the flat roof of a house.
5.
an open, often paved area connected to a house or an apartment house and serving as an outdoorliving area; deck.
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