Apartment
This article is about the type of housing. For other uses, see Apartment (disambiguation). This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. No cleanup reason has been specified. Please help improve this article if you can. (June 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Apartments facing Central Park in midtown Manhattan, New York, United States Apartments in Madrid, Spain An apartment complex in Gurgaon, Haryana, India An apartment (American English), flat (British English) or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building, generally on a single storey. There are many names for these overall buildings, see below. The housing tenure of apartments also varies considerably, from large-scale public housing, to owner occupancy within what is legally a condominium (strata title or commonhold), to tenants renting from a private landlord (see leasehold esta...