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An apartment (or sometimes flat in Britain and most other Commonwealth countries) is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building. Apartments may be owned (by an owner-occupier) or rented (by tenants).

luxury aprtment is likely to have high price value either due to the facilituies and soze of the apertment or/and due to the location of the apartment.. An apartment in London is likley fetch a high value at present, so can be classified as luxury due to cost. For many though luxury is an objective term and the apartment should meet a decent standard before it can described as a luxury apartment. Self catering, on suite toilet facilities, communication systems, views of the city, plenty of room in each room. With great furniture, and design.

Some apartment dwellers own apartments, either as co-ops, in which the residents own shares of a corporation that owns the building or development; or in condominiums, whose residents own their apartments and share ownership of public spaces. Most apartments are in buildings designed for purpose, but large older houses are sometimes divided into apartments. The word apartment connotes a residential unit or section in a building. Apartment building owners, lessors, or managers often use the more general word units to refer to apartments. Units can be used to refer to rental business suites and residential apartments. When there is no tenant occupying an apartment, the lessor is said to have a vacancy. For apartment lessors, each vacancy represents a loss of income. Lessors' objectives are often to minimize the vacancy rate for their units. The owner of the apartment typically when transferring possession to the occupant gives him/her the key to the apartment entrance door and any other keys needed to live there, such as a common key to the building or any other common areas, and an individual unit mailbox key. When the occupant move out, these keys are typically be returned to the owner.

Studio, efficiency, bedsit and bachelor style apartments all tend to be the smallest apartments with the cheapest rents in a given area. These kinds of apartment usually consist mainly of a large room which is the living, dining, and bedroom combined. There are usually kitchen facilities as part of this central room, but the bathroom is its own smaller separate room.

An apartment building, block of flats or tenement is a multi-unit dwelling made up of several (generally four or more) apartments (US) or flats (UK). Where the building is a high-rise construction, it is termed a tower block in the UK and elsewhere. The term apartment building is used regardless of height in the US.

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