I am looking up apartments online and looking at floor plans... The apartment is more expensive, but has the same exact floor plan as the flat. What is the difference between the two?
2007-11-10 02:35:41 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Renting & Real Estate
oh that's easy
If you have big breasts you live in an apartment
If you have smaller breasts you live in a flat....now you understand the real estate values?
2007-11-10 06:25:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
They are essentially the same thing - but the word 'flat' is more of an English term.... the word 'apartment' is more American, but is used by many, many estate agents in the UK instead of flat. This is because original flats in the UK were monstrous tower blocks called 'blocks of flats' - many of which were built in the 60s. Nowadays times have moved on and there are thousands of apartments in big, cosmopolitan cities. Young professionals want to feel that they are living somewhere modern and exclusive.... even if they are in fact living in a building that was only constructed to serve the same purpose as 'flats' - to cram as many people into a space as possible! In large cities, horizontal land space is scarce - so the space extends into the sky, vertically. The word 'apartment' conveys an image of somewhere modern, spacious, trendy and cosmopolitan. The word 'flat' unfortunately conveys images of those 1960s council buildings that are seen as a scar on the scenery nowadays. So yes, they are really the same thing ;-) xx Emmie
2016-04-03 05:37:47 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turdo, Don't mind those bunch of Loonies!!!
A Flat is a whole series of Rooms, Palour/Sitting room/rest room with its own toilets and bathroom, Kitchen, and store house. Its a combination of all these put together inside one Flat. Its designed solely to guarantee you ustmost privacy.
On The other hand, An apartment is only a room or more. The chief difference is that you will have ti share your Kitchen, Toilet and Bathroom with the other tenants. Its a kind of time - sharing facility. You tae turns to Bath, use the loo, and have your own side of the kitchen.
You can see the difference between an apartment and a flat now?
While you have all facilities to yourself in the Flat, you have to share the other facilities with the other tenants usually when there is not more than 1 or 2 of the facility.
Hope this doesn't confuse you.
2007-11-10 06:06:10 · answer #3 · answered by Freeman 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There is no difference between the two... apartment is the term generally used here in North America & flat is the term generally used in Europe. The price difference bewteen the two properties you're looking at is no doubt because of location. For instance, the same apartment I can rent where I live would triple in cost about an hour away from here.
2007-11-10 02:43:03 · answer #4 · answered by brosie09 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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 (Canada being a notable exception); in those countries, "apartment" is often used to describe more upmarket flats.
2007-11-10 02:41:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's no difference in the American vernacular. We don't generally refer to apartments as flats though there are areas where the term is used occasionally. Some properties probably think it's hip or cool to refer to their apartments as "flats," trying for some cachet I guess.
2007-11-10 02:44:21 · answer #6 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Their "synonomous" terms...they're the same thing..."flat" is simply "British" for "apartment..."
In America...the breakdown is like this...in order of expense and "niceness..."
1. Apartment (flat)...renting, not owning...
2. Condo...renting or leasing or leasing to buy...(1 to 2 to 3 stories tall tops...
3. Duplex...like a "house" split down the middle...with a front and backyard...
4. Highrise Condo...like a condo, only more expensive and centered in the skyscraper downtown area, like a "skyscraper" condo...
5. House...all your own...yard and everything...
Hope this helped...(you can also "rent" homes that no one lives in, and are designed to make the property owners profit, by getting you to pay their "mortagage" monthly payments as they slowly "own" the house...)
2007-11-10 02:39:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Flat in England=Apt in America
2007-11-10 02:47:43 · answer #8 · answered by Christiane 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The apartments in America are more flat.
Hope that helped.
EDIT: FREEMAN is barking mad, do NOT listen to him, he cooked up his *explanation* to confuse you... remember, please, apartments are more FLAT in America...
His *explanation* was used to fool people into believing the Earth is round... nonsense !!!
2007-11-10 03:13:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
nothing, just two different names for the same thing
2007-11-10 09:43:54 · answer #10 · answered by Jeremy© ® ™ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋