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Old February 22, 2012, 04:25 AM
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Smile Different houses in American English

How canwe say in American E.
Detached house
Semi-detached house
Terraced house
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I would probably say "single family home" for a home that is not attached to any others.
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Single Family Home is the official term you would find in real estate or home purchasing.

Here is a question to other Americans. How do they classify the row housing like you see in San Francisco or other big cities? Down here they would be town homes. Does the same apply?
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In the U.S. the terms vary somewhat by region as well as by the type of construction and the form of land ownership.

I agree with Lou Ann: a single building configured as one dwelling located on its own building lot and that is not attached to a neighboring building is a 'single-family home'.

A 'semi-detached' house is either one of 2 independent buildings that meet along one side aligned witih the line separating their building lots.

What is a 'terraced house'? Is this one of 3 or more buildings in a row of lots where each house meets two other houses along opposite walls? If each building is an independent structure, in my area we call it a 'townhouse' if each home and lot is independent, and we call it a "townhouse condominium' if the land is held in common among all of the houses. Usually 'townhouses' look like independent buildings; they often have different exterior styles, and they may have different heights, and their floors may not align. Ususally "townhouse condominiums' look like one building; identical architectural and exterior styles, possibly with a common entryway.
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Here is a question to other Americans. How do they classify the row housing like you see in San Francisco or other big cities? Down here they would be town homes. Does the same apply?
Yes - I would call them "town homes" or, less commonly, "row houses".
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In construction we have a few ways of specifying.

Townhome- Attached on the sides (sharing a common wall), but know other home above or below.

Condominium- More appartment-like having other units on either the sides, back, and/or above and below.

Duplex- Two homes sharing one common wall.

Thought this might be helpful . Also, I've never seen a townhome that wasn't at least a two story or more.
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In construction we have a few ways of specifying.

Townhome- Attached on the sides (sharing a common wall), but know other home above or below.

Condominium- More appartment-like having other units on either the sides, back, and/or above and below.

Duplex- Two homes sharing one common wall.

Thought this might be helpful . Also, I've never seen a townhome that wasn't at least a two story or more.
Around here a duplex typically is two units that are side-by-side mirror images. It might be a single-owner property, it might be a 2-owner property with each half having its own lot, or it might be a 2-party condominium association that nominally has some portion of the property held in common by the two units even though each unit is separately deeded. A 2-unit home that is up-and-downstairs rather than size-by-side is a 2-family, but it is NOT a duplex.
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I thought a duplex was an apartment with two floors. Like in Spain.
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Around here a duplex typically is two units that are side-by-side mirror images. It might be a single-owner property, it might be a 2-owner property with each half having its own lot[...]
That's what "una casa dúplex" is in Mexico too.
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