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Apartment

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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...

High Street

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This article is about the generic term for the main business streets in British towns. For roads of the same name and other uses, see High Street (disambiguation). High Street in Gillingham, Kent, England High Street (or the High Street , also High Road ) is a metonym for the concept (and frequently the street name) of the primary business street of towns or cities, especially in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations. To distinguish it from "centres" of nearby places it is frequently preceded unofficially by the name of its settlement. In a town it implies the focal point for business, especially shops and street stalls (if any) in town and city centres. As a generic shorthand presupposed upon linear settlements it may be used to denote more precise concepts such as the urban retail sector, town centre sectors of employment, all small shops and services outlets and even wider concepts taking in social concepts. [a] The equivalent in the United States and some parts ...