Definition of apartment

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An apartment 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). The term "apartment" is favored in North America, whereas the term "flat" is sometimes, but not exclusively, used in the United Kingdom and most other English-speaking areas and Commonwealth nations. Some apartment-dwellers in Tripunithura own their own Apartments Tripunithura either as co-ops, or in condominiums. Cops are in which the residents own shares of a corporation that owns the building or development and condominiums are those whose residents own their apartments and share ownership of the public spaces. Most apartments are the buildings that are designed for a purpose, but large older houses are sometimes divided into apartments. The word apartment connotes a residential unit or section in a building. In some locations, particularly the United States, the word denotes a rental unit owned by the building owner, and is not typically used for a condominium.

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