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Unit 5Residential Real Estate (I)

The legal arrangement for the right to occupy a dwelling isknown as the housing tenure. Types of housing tenure include owneroccupancy,tenancy, housing cooperative, condominiums (individuallyparcelled properties in a single building), public housing, andsquatting. Variants include timeshares and co-housing.

Residences can be classified by if and how they areconnected to neighbouring residences and land.

Different types of housing tenure can be used for the samephysical type. For example, connected residences might be owned bya single entity and leased out, or owned separately with anagreement covering the relationship between units and commonareas and concerns.

Major physical categories in North America and Europeinclude:

- Attached / multi-unit dwellings: apartment (flat outsideNorth America), often seen in multi-story apartment buildings,an individual unit in a multi-unit building, the boundaries of

whom are generally defined by a perimeter of locked orlockable doors; multi-family house, often seen in multi-storydetached buildings, where each floor is a separate apartmentor unit; terraced house (a.k.a. townhouse or row-house), anumber of single or multi-unit buildings in a continuous rowwith shared walls and no intervening space; condominium, abuilding or complex, similar to apartments, owned byindividuals, while common grounds are owned and sharedjointly (there are townhouse orrow-house style condominiumsas well).- Semi-detacheddwellings; duplex, two units with one sharedwall.- Single-family detached home.- Portable dwellings: mobile homes, potentially a full-timeresidence which can be (might not in practice be) movable onwheels; houseboats, a floating home; tents, usually verytemporary, with roof and walls consisting only of fabric-likematerial. (AfterWikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_tenurehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owner-occupierhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owner-occupierhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owner-occupierhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leasehold_estatehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leasehold_estatehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_cooperativehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condominiumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squattinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squattinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timesharehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohousinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartmenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartmenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartment_buildinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-family_residentialhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraced_househttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraced_househttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condominiumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-detachedhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplex_(building)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-family_detached_homehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-family_detached_homehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_homehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houseboathttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houseboathttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houseboathttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owner-occupierhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owner-occupierhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leasehold_estatehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_cooperativehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condominiumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squattinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timesharehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohousinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartmenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartment_buildinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-family_residentialhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraced_househttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condominiumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-detachedhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplex_(building)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-family_detached_homehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_homehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houseboathttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_tenure


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Vocabularyapartment building= bloc / cldire cu / de apartamenteattached / multi-unit dwellings = grup de mai multe locuine aflate,

de obicei, sub acelai acoperiboundary= despritur, grani, limitco-housing= comunitate de locuine n care buctria i alte

faciliti sunt comunecondominium = condominium, stpnire asociat / mixt

duplex= duplex, apartament pe dou etajedwelling= locuinfabric-like material= material textilfloating home = cas plutitoarefloor= etajhouseboat= cas (ntr-o ambarcaiune) pe aphousing cooperative= companie care deine locuine; cldiri

rezidenialehousing tenure= aranjament financiar care i permite cuiva s

locuiasc ntr-un apartament sau o caslease out(v.) = a da cu chirie, a nchirialockable = care poate fi ncuiat()locked= ncuiat()mobile home = cas / locuin mobilmulti-family house = cldire n care fiecare familie ocup un etajmulti-story= cu mai multe etajeneighbouring= nvecinat()on wheels = pe roiowner occupancy= locuin proprietate personalportable dwelling= locuin portabilpublic housing= locuin de statsemi-detacheddwelling= locuin semi-detaatshared= mprit(), n comun

single-family detached home= cas individual pentru o singurfamiliesquatting= instalarea ilegal ntr-o castenancy= chirietent= cortterraced house = cas cu teras la partertimeshare= locuin n comun, de obicei n staiuni de vacan

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartment_buildinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohousinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplex_(building)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houseboathttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_cooperativehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_tenurehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_homehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-family_residentialhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owner-occupierhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-detachedhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-family_detached_homehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squattinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leasehold_estatehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraced_househttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timesharehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timesharehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartment_buildinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohousinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplex_(building)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houseboathttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_cooperativehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_tenurehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_homehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-family_residentialhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owner-occupierhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-detachedhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-family_detached_homehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squattinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leasehold_estatehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraced_househttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeshare


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Exercises1. Answer the questions.

- What do you understand by housing tenure?- What types of housing tenure are there?- What is owner occupancy?- What is tenancy?- What is housing cooperative?

- What is a condominium?- What do you understand by public housing?- What is squatting?- What is a timeshare?- What do you understand by co-housing?- How can residences be classified?- What do major physical categories of housing tenure include?- What is an apartment?- What is an apartment building?- What is a multi-family house?- What is a terraced house?- What is a duplex?

- What is a single-family detached house?- What is a houseboat?- What is a tent?

2. Match the following.

1. co-housinga. a kind ofintentional community composed of

private homes with full kitchens, supplementedby extensive common facilities

2. housing b. buildings or other shelters in which people live

3.occupancy

c. possession or occupancy of lands, buildings, or

other property by title, under a lease, or onpayment of rent

4. squattingd. the act of occupying or the condition of being

occupied; the state of being an occupant or atenant

5. tenancye. the act of settling on unoccupied land without

legal claim

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3. Group the following words referring to a neighbour (someone wholives nearby) as in the model.

apartment complex be neighbours community compound district environs good neighbour housing development livein the same neighbourhood live near each other live nearby live next to each other live on the same street neighbourhood neighbourly neighbour next door neighbour our area ourstreet subdivision vicinity

Words referring to

a goodneighbour

someone wholives nearby

the area aroundyour house

the fact thatsomeone lives

nearby

environs

4. Make a description of your flat / house using some of the wordsabove.

5. Fill in with the Past Participles below.

combined drawn found known (2 times) made termed used(3 times)

An apartment building, block of flats or tenement, is a multi-unitdwelling up of several (generally four or more) apartments (US), orflats (UK). A difference may be such as in San Francisco,California between an apartment and a flat, where an apartment isone of many units on a floor and a flat is the only unit on a given floor.Where the building is a high-rise construction, it is a tower block inthe UK and elsewhere. The term apartment building is regardlessof height in the US. A two-unit dwelling is as a duplex (US) ormaisonette (UK); a three-unit dwelling is as a triplex, in Chicago as

a three-flat, or inBoston as a three-decker or a triple-decker. Beyondthis, cardinal numbers are (e.g., fourplex, fiveplex) in the US, andthe term multiplex is also . Tenement law refers to the feudal basisof permanent property such as land or rents. May be as inMessuage or Tenement to encompass all the land, buildings andother assets of a property.

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6. Group the followingpronouns according to the model.

he her hers herself him himself his I it it its itself me mine myself our ours ourselves she theirs them themselves they us we you yours yourself

Subject Object Possessive Reflexive

he him his himself

7. Put the verbs between brackets in the Simple Past, Past PerfectorPast Perfect Continuous.

- How long (he, work) on his sculpture when he finally (finish) it? For at least one year.

- How long (your father, smoke) when he (decide) to quitsmoking? For more than twenty years.

- Betty was reading when her parents (come) home fromwork.

- Bill (wait) for his girlfriend for half an hour when she finally (show up)

- By the time Mrs. Adams (reach) the store, she (forget)

what she wanted to buy.- By the time Mrs. Dobbs (retire), she (work) for 35 years.- By the time we (get) to the movie theatre, the movie

(already, begin).- First the weather (be) fine. Later it (start) to rain. Then

we ... (decide) to go back home.- I (see) Karen yesterday. She (tell) me she (just,

come) back from her vacation.- Rita (design) herself a summer dress yesterday. She

(never, design) clothes for herself before.- She (read) for two hours. She (read) fifty pages.- The ground (be) wet because it (rain) for several hours.

- The party was a great success. Cathy (feel) happier thanshe (ever, feel) before.

8. Fill in the blanks with the rightpreposition after each adjective.

- Be very careful what you say to her.

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- He always tries to be polite his teachers.- He told me he was angry you.- He took a job because he no longer wanted to be dependent

his parents.- Im proud your success.- Mary is very fond children.- She has never been successful anything she has done.- She is quite different her husband.- The new teacher is very patient children.

- We have all the equipment necessary our experiment.- What are you afraid ?- Why do you feel inferior your schoolmates?

9. Match the sentences on the left with the Past Participles requiredby the causative have structure on the right.1. Mary had her hair a. capped2. We are having our roof b. cut3. John has had his car c. dry- cleaned4. Susan has had her tooth d. redecorated5. Bill had an X- ray e. re-soled

6. Im having my blue suit f. re-tiled7. The Smiths have had their bedroom g. serviced8. We had our dog h. spayed9. Wendy had her computer i. taken10. He has had his shoes j. upgraded

Lets Laugh!A New York City yuppie moved to the country and bought a piece ofland. He went to the local feed and livestock store and talked to theproprietor about how he was going to take up chicken farming. He

then asked to buy 100 chicks. Thats a lot of chicks, commented theproprietor. I mean business, the city slicker replied. A week later theyuppie was back again. I need another 100 chicks, he said. Boy,you are serious about this chicken farming, the man told him. Yeah,the yuppie replied. If I can iron out a few problems. Problems?

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asked the proprietor. Yeah, replied the yuppie, I think I planted thatlast batch too close together.

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