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what is the difference between single family home and town house?
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what is the difference between single family home and town house? When I do some research for housing, and the websites always ask me what type of house I want to search,like single family home, town house, house. What is the difference? Thanks. |
what is the difference between single family home and town house?
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hi, folks. what is the difference between single family home and town house? When I do some research for housing, and the websites always ask me what type of house I want to search,like single family home, town house, house. What is the difference? www.google.com -- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com) It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again. |
what is the difference between single family home and town house?
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what is the difference between single family home and town house?
Town houses are attached. Single family home is just that as opposed
to 2 or threefamily homes Nick wrote: hi, folks. what is the difference between single family home and town house? When I do some research for housing, and the websites always ask me what type of house I want to search,like single family home, town house, house. What is the difference? Thanks. |
what is the difference between single family home and town house?
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oups.com... what is the difference between single family home and town house? When I do some research for housing, and the websites always ask me what type of house I want to search,like single family home, town house, house. What is the difference? Town house is American realtor language for the British terrace house or row house. It is a single family house attached to both neighbours (except for the unit at each end of the row, which qualifies as semi-detached.) -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
what is the difference between single family home and town house?
Nick wrote:
hi, folks. what is the difference between single family home and town house? When I do some research for housing, and the websites always ask me what type of house I want to search,like single family home, town house, house. What is the difference? Thanks. A townhouse is classified by lenders as a single family attached dwelling. It shares a wall - called a party wall - with another dwelling on one or both sides. They can also be called a rowhouse. The form of ownership varies. In most cases you own the lot under the townhouse. There may also be a homeowners association. In those cases, if membership in the association is mandatory, its considered a planned unit development or PUD. Some townhouses are owned as condominiums. That means you own a unit as defined in the condo documents - typically the inside walls and airspace - and a percentage of the common elements. In a townshouse/condo form of ownership you typically have exclusive rights to the land in front and back of the unit. So when you are defining your search, you're deciding whether to look at attached dwellings or not. Townhouses are always attached. Hope that helps. Good luck on your search. |
what is the difference between single family home and town house?
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says... (Nick) wrote in oups.com: what is the difference between single family home and town house? A "town house" would mean attached housing, maybe just a duplex, maybe a full-blown row house. The alternative would be a house sitting on its own lot. Minor nit -- detached homes don't always sit on their own lot, though that's still the most common situation. Many developers have found that they can fit more homes on an acre by avoiding lot-line setbacks -- the houses are privately owned, but the land is owned in common by a homeowners association. No lot line between houses, so no lot-line setback requirements, only the minimum building separation required by local codes, which is often substantially smaller than a lot-line setback -- say ten feet between detached houses, or five feet to the fence-line, vs. ten or even fifteen feet to a lot line. -- is Joshua Putnam http://www.phred.org/~josh/ Braze your own bicycle frames. See http://www.phred.org/~josh/build/build.html |
what is the difference between single family home and town house?
"Don Phillipson" ) writes:
Town house is American realtor language for the British terrace house or row house. It is a single family house attached to both neighbours (except for the unit at each end of the row, which qualifies as semi-detached.) I've always felt that calling the end unit in row housing 'semi-detached' is incorrect. We have quite a few true semi-detached homes here in Ottawa. Calling an end unit row house 'semi-detached' is misleading. My opinion only. |
what is the difference between single family home and town house?
Bert Hyman wrote:
In "Don Phillipson" wrote: "Nick" wrote in message groups.com... what is the difference between single family home and town house? When I do some research for housing, and the websites always ask me what type of house I want to search,like single family home, town house, house. What is the difference? Town house is American realtor language for the British terrace house or row house. Row houses are common in the US too; Baltimore (where I grew up) is (or used to be) famous for them. Unfortunately, the term "row house" took on a connotation of "slum housing" a while back. Again, Baltimore can be used as an example for that too. I was somewhat shocked when a brand new condominium project out here in St. Paul called itself "The Rowhouses on Snelling" [Snelling Ave., a major thoroughfare, named after Josiah Snelling, a military officer particularly responsible for the "pacification" of the region], apparently counting on the fact that midwesterners weren't too familiar with the negative image. The general negative image may be limited to Baltimore? Not all cities give rowhouses the "slum housing" connotation - think of Elfreth's Alley the "oldest still residential street" or Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, or some of the residential streets in downtown Annapolis, or the brownstones (essentially rowhouses) in Brooklyn. Sure, all these places have run-down neighborhoods with rowhouses but they also have upscale neighborhoods with elegant rowhouses. |
what is the difference between single family home and town house?
"Nick" writes:
hi, folks. what is the difference between single family home and town house? When I do some research for housing, and the websites always ask me what type of house I want to search,like single family home, town house, house. What is the difference? A single family, detached home is what most folks thing of as a house. A townhouse is a form of attached housing, which means you're gonna have neighbors whose townhomes are part of the same structure. Common wall, common roof, etc, and typically connotes multiple levels within it, and typically is also a condominium, with a condominium association collcting fees to cover the expense of maintaining the exterior structure of the unit. A "condo" is a vague term, for what it's worth. It can only be trusted to mean that there's some sort of condo association fee to pay for for shared upkeep. In chicago, a condo conotes an apartment style single floor unit that you canpurchase a deed too, while technically most townhomes around here are also technically condos. At least that's the only explanation I've heard that made sense. :-) Best Regards, -- Todd H. http://www.toddh.net/ |
what is the difference between single family home and town house?
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A "condo" is a vague term, for what it's worth. It can only be trusted to mean that there's some sort of condo association fee to pay for for shared upkeep. In chicago, a condo conotes an apartment style single floor unit that you canpurchase a deed too, while technically most townhomes around here are also technically condos. At least that's the only explanation I've heard that made sense. :-) Technically, "condominium" describes the form of ownership, not the type of building. It means you own your particular unit, plus an undivided interest in whatever you and all the other unit owners hold in common through the association. There are apartment-style condos, townhouse condos, detached home condos, even condominium mobile home parks. -- is Joshua Putnam http://www.phred.org/~josh/ Braze your own bicycle frames. See http://www.phred.org/~josh/build/build.html |
what is the difference between single family home and town house?
Joshua Putnam writes:
In article , says... A "condo" is a vague term, for what it's worth. It can only be trusted to mean that there's some sort of condo association fee to pay for for shared upkeep. In chicago, a condo conotes an apartment style single floor unit that you canpurchase a deed too, while technically most townhomes around here are also technically condos. At least that's the only explanation I've heard that made sense. :-) Technically, "condominium" describes the form of ownership, not the type of building. It means you own your particular unit, plus an undivided interest in whatever you and all the other unit owners hold in common through the association. There are apartment-style condos, townhouse condos, detached home condos, even condominium mobile home parks. Much better said than I rattled off. Thanks Joshua! -- Todd H. http://www.toddh.net/ |
what is the difference between single family home and town house?
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Bert Hyman wrote: (Nick) wrote in oups.com: what is the difference between single family home and town house? A "town house" would mean attached housing, maybe just a duplex, maybe a full-blown row house. The alternative would be a house sitting on its own lot. Not always. Here in the twin cities, there are a large number of "detached townhome" communities. These are free standing buildings with one unit per building, but the land is owned in common, and the association takes care of outside maintenance. -john- -- ================================================== ==================== John A. Weeks III 952-432-2708 Newave Communications http://www.johnweeks.com ================================================== ==================== |
what is the difference between single family home and town house?
(John A. Weeks III) wrote in
: In article , Bert Hyman wrote: (Nick) wrote in oups.com: what is the difference between single family home and town house? A "town house" would mean attached housing, maybe just a duplex, maybe a full-blown row house. The alternative would be a house sitting on its own lot. Not always. Here in the twin cities, there are a large number of "detached townhome" communities. These are free standing buildings with one unit per building, but the land is owned in common, and the association takes care of outside maintenance. Just another example of language drift rendering a perfectly useful term like "town house" meaningless. If you think about what a "town house" was originally, you'll see that even using the term for row houses or duplexes built in the suburbs is silly. But, that's the way language works. -- Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | |
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