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When did flats become apartments?

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  • Bogof_Babe
    Bogof_Babe Posts: 10,803 Forumite
    You joke about "pods" but isn't doing away with separate kitchens and taking the bath out of bathrooms just the thin end of the wedge?

    Before much longer anything more than a single person household will be living like maggots in a tin, and as for storage for all that "stuff" bought on credit...:confused:
    :D I haven't bogged off yet, and I ain't no babe :D

  • lethal0r
    lethal0r Posts: 408 Forumite
    does a townhouse have to be in or near the town centre? otherwise is it just a terraced house?

    if you convert the loft in a 2 floor terraced house does it become a townhouse?
  • zfrl
    zfrl Posts: 641 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    What are back to back houses called now?

    Other EA greats
    "Internal inspection required..." looks rubbish from the outside!
    "Deceptively large...." who are you trying to kid?
    "Low maintenance garden" Yard?
    :cool:
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  • Bogof_Babe
    Bogof_Babe Posts: 10,803 Forumite
    Manageable garden - two square yards with a potted geranium.
    :D I haven't bogged off yet, and I ain't no babe :D

  • Ian_Griffiths_Halifax
    Ian_Griffiths_Halifax Posts: 1,690 Forumite
    Outstanding views = the inside is a mess.

    Lamborgini thrown in = the house is overpriced.
    I am a Mortgage Consultant and don't like to be told what I can and can't put in a signature so long as it's legal and truthful.
  • Richard_Webster
    Richard_Webster Posts: 7,646 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    there are a lot of 'villas' around these parts and not a palm tree to be seen.

    most of which seem to be situated on ex council 'developments'

    And would you believe it there is a BISF (British Iron & Steel Federation) ex-Council house near me with palm trees all over the front and back gardens - so much so that I've often thought of taking a photo of it from an appropriate angle and telling people from out of area that this is the gite we rented in France....
    RICHARD WEBSTER

    As a retired conveyancing solicitor I believe the information given in the post to be useful assuming any properties concerned are in England/Wales but I accept no liability for it.
  • BiggaThanBen
    BiggaThanBen Posts: 529 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    lethal0r wrote: »
    if you convert the loft in a 2 floor terraced house does it become a townhouse?

    no, you will also need to convert the ground floor into a garage and tarmac the garden ..
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  • Ian_Griffiths_Halifax
    Ian_Griffiths_Halifax Posts: 1,690 Forumite
    BiggaThanBen wrote: »
    no, you will also need to convert the ground floor into a garage and tarmac the garden ..

    Not forgetting to remove the solid inner supporting walls and replace them with plasterboard.
    I am a Mortgage Consultant and don't like to be told what I can and can't put in a signature so long as it's legal and truthful.
  • rizla01
    rizla01 Posts: 7,260 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    You never hear them described as 'Two up, Two downs' either.

    Any new names for Bungalows or Chalets?
    "Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it."
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  • scrummy_mummy_2
    scrummy_mummy_2 Posts: 386 Forumite
    rizla01 wrote: »
    You never hear them described as 'Two up, Two downs' either.

    Any new names for Bungalows or Chalets?

    Spacious single story living with expertly conceived loft conversion recently vacated and now with no chain AND VACANT POSSESSION!!
    (Reads: Bungalow where previous owner died and the police have had to take the carpets and curtains and all furniture to the tip when the neighbours noticed the flies at the windows 6 months later!)
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