Home sale
Numerous people may want to buy homes. Some may want to buy large or small homes.; Some may want buy homes at estate agents or at auctions. Some may want to buy homes over the net. Some may want to buy a large number of homes. Some may want to buy homes to live in or as an investment that they can rent out or sell for a profit after redevelopment of the housing stock.
Numerous people may want to buy homes. Some may want to buy homes in high status areas. Some may want to buy homes with impressive architecture.
A house generally refers to a shelter or building that is a dwelling or place for habitation by human beings. The term includes many kinds of dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to high-rise apartment buildings. However, the word can also be used as a verb, and can have adjectival formations as well. In some contexts, house may mean the same as dwelling, residence, home, abode, accommodation, housing, lodging, among other meanings. The social unit that lives in a house is known as a household. Most commonly, a household is a family unit of some kind, though households can be other social groups, such as single persons, or groups of unrelated individuals. Settled agrarian and industrial societies are composed of household units living permanently in housing of various types, according to a variety of forms of land tenure. English-speaking people generally call any building they routinely occupy home. Many people leave their houses during the day for work and recreation but typically return to them to sleep or for other activities.
The developed world in general features three basic types of house that have their own ground-level entry and private open space, and usually on a separately titled parcel of land:
Single-family detached
houses - free-standing on all sides.
Semi-detached houses (duplexes) - houses
that are attached, usually to only one other house via a party wall.
Terraced
house (UK) also known as a row house or townhouse - attached to other houses,
possibly in a row, each separated by a party wall.
In addition, there are various forms of attached housing where a number of dwelling units are co-located within the same structure, which share a ground-level entry and may or may not have any private open space, such as apartments (a.k.a. flats) of various scales. Another type of housing is movable, such as houseboats, caravans, and trailer homes.
Semi-detached housing (often abbreviated to semi in the UK, Canada, and Australia, as in "three-bedroom semi", or outright renamed duplex in New England), consists of pairs of houses built side by side as units sharing a party wall and usually in such a way that each house's layout is a mirror image of its twin. This style of housing, although built throughout the world, is commonly seen as particularly symbolic of the suburbanisation of the United Kingdom and Ireland, or post-war homes in Central Canada.
This type of housing can be thought of as being a half-way state between terraced or row housing and single-family detached homes. Terraced housing is constituted by continuous row houses with open spaces at the front and back, while semi-detached houses have front, rear and any one side open spaces, and individual detached houses have open spaces on all sides.
Some houses transcend the basic functionality of providing "a roof over one's head" or of serving as a family hearth and home. When a house becomes a display-case for wealth and/or fashion and/or conspicuous consumption, we may speak of a great house. The residence of a feudal lord or of a ruler may require defensive structures and thus turn into a fort or a castle. The house of a monarch may come to house courtiers and officers as well as the royal family: this sort of house may become a palace. Moreover, in time the lord or monarch may wish to retreat to a more personal or simple space such as a villa, a hunting lodge or a dacha. Compare the popularity of the holiday house or cottage, also known as a crib.
In contrast to a relatively upper class or modern trend to ownership of multiple houses, much of human history shows the importance of multi-purpose houses. Thus the house long served as the traditional place of work (the original cottage industry site or "in-house" small-scale manufacturing workshop) or of commerce (featuring, for example, a ground floor shop front shop or counter or office, with living space above). During the Industrial Revolution there was a separation of manufacturing and banking from the house, though to this day some shopkeepers continue (or have returned) to live over the shop.
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