Apartment or flat is an independent housing unit that occupies only part of a building. Because the building can be called an apartment building, apartment houses, apartment blocks or, sometimes blocks home, especially if it consists of many leased apartment. These apartments are owned by the owner / occupant or rented by tenants.
Apartment preferred term in North America, while the term is generally flat, but not exclusively, used in the UK, Singapore, Hong Kong andmost Commonwealth countries.
In English Malaysia, flat often indicate a lower quality of housing blocks intended for low-income groups, while the apartment is more generic and may also include luxury condominiums.
In English Australia, two independent terms: the apartment has a meaning the U.S., while the flat usually refers to the rental property, but especially those owned by students or other groups of non-family.
tenement law refers to the feudal basis of fixed assets such as land or leases. Can be found combined as in “messuage or tenement” to include all land, buildings and other property assets.
In the U.S. and Canada, some residents own their own apartments, either as co-ops, where residents own shares of a company that has a building or development, or in condominiums, apartment residents own and share ownership of public space. Most apartments in buildings designed to achieve the goal, but old houses that sometimes large