Definitions

• Apartment - A multi-unit residential building. All units are owned by one entity and offered for rent. They may include features of lofts, flats or townhouses. Most provide common areas for use by the residents.

• Condominium - A property located in a multi-unit housing development where each residence is individually owned and each owner has access to common areas. Features a wall adjoining a neighboring unit. Occasionally includes a private area of land. Always includes homeowner fees.

• Duplex - Two single family residences joined by a shared wall. On a lot by itself, but may be part of a complex.

• Loft - Lofts are a style of housing that generally features high ceilings, exposed duct work and no interior doors. Usually they are housing converted from other types of buildings, although some new properties are now purpose-built in this style. Can also be considered a form of condominium if individually owned.

• Flat – Part of an older building that was previously a large house and which has been subdivided into private residential units, each usually occupying or sharing a single floor. Can also be considered a form of condominium if individually owned.

• Fourplex - Four single family residences joined by walls in common. On a lot by itself, but may be part of a complex.

• House - A single family residence, on a lot by itself, that usually has a front and back yard. Not a mobile or modular home.

• Mobile Home – a residence that is ostensibly capable of being towed by a transport truck. They may be single-wide (one movable section) or double-wide (two movable sections joined together) and may feature additions that are not portable.

• Modular Home – a residence similar to, yet generally stouter than, a Mobile Home in construction, but either set on a foundation, footings or not readily designed for future transport.

• Quadruplex – See Fourplex.

• Townhouse – This property consists of two or more floors, sometimes with a garage as part of or taking up one story. Each townhouse shares at least one wall with neighbors, but has its own entrance, and sometimes a small area of land, perhaps shared in common. Townhouses may also be condominiums, but not all condos are townhouses. It may be part of a row or complex of multiple homes with similar designs.

• Triplex - Three single family residences joined by common walls. On a lot by itself, but may be part of a complex.