Duplex for sale

Ubbquittious

Did anyone else notice that daft has started calling semi detached houses Duplexes?

I wonder what would be the rationale for trying to promote this Americanism. I have never heard someone who wasn't American calling a house a duplex

Harry Palmr

How does the OP spell programme?

ontheditch2

Is a Duplex not a 2 storey apartment over/under another apartment??

Noveight

Latex condo.

Subcomandante Marcos

ontheditch2 wrote: »

Is a Duplex not a 2 storey apartment over/under another apartment??

Yup.

suicide_circus

Noveight wrote: »

Latex condo.

i'd sure like to live in one of those

sydthebeat

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Did anyone else notice that daft has started calling semi detached houses Duplexes?

I wonder what would be the rationale for trying to promote this Americanism. I have never heard someone who wasn't American calling a house a duplex

A duplex is a very particular type of house.

Its usually a two storey house over a single storey apartment.....and can be semi detached.

So are you sure you just didn't look at the photos incorrectly?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I just did a search on Daft for Duplex and they were all Duplexes and none were semi detached houses.

Franz Von Peppercorn

If you think about the real weirdness is in the term semi detached. A semi detached house is in fact attached to another house.

TomasMacR

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

If you think about the real weirdness is in the term semi detached. A semi detached house is in fact attached to another house.

hence the "semi" bit. one end of each unit is not attached whereas one end is...so, prepare to get your mind blown...it is semi-detached.

Franz Von Peppercorn

TomasMacR wrote: »

hence the "semi" bit. one end of each unit is not attached whereas one end is...so, prepare to get your mind blown...it is semi-detached.

Is anything else attached to something called semi detached? No.

mvl

dunno ... duplex (building) sounds pretty common to me. can't say the same about fourplex or is it quadruplex ...

Skylinehead

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Is anything else attached to something called semi detached? No.

Should call it a half and half

TomasMacR

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Is anything else attached to something called semi detached? No.

Maybe one of those cunning selling techniques which caught on. I'd rather buy a house which is semi-detached to someone than semi-attached to them.

Franz Von Peppercorn

TomasMacR wrote: »

Maybe one of those cunning selling techniques which caught on. I'd rather buy a house which is semi-detached to someone than semi-attached to them.

It’s definitely a marketing term that we got used to.

Snotty

Loads of Duplexes around, came from the celtic tiger era, supprised you haven't incountered it before

Force Carrier

Replacement toner is expensive.

recedite

In the USA a building with 2 houses or apartments, each having its own front door, is a duplex. If they happen to be side by side, instead of one on top of the other, then its what we would call a semi-detached.


Over here, if there is one on top of the other and both have their own external door, then strictly speaking its a maisonette. Loads of older apartments over shops are like that, or the newer apartments with external staircases.


To add to the confusion, the word duplex has been imported here and used to mean an apartment on 2 levels, even if it does not have its own external front door. So that's really just an apartment on 2 levels.

BailMeOut

In USA it is quite normal that one person owns building but lives in one apartment and rents out the other.

Witchie

In Malaysia they call detached houses bungalows, despite them usually being 2 storey and semi-detached are called link houses.

Here most apartments are called condos and a condo with 2 storeys is a duplex.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Witchie wrote: »

In Malaysia they call detached houses bungalows, despite them usually being 2 storey and semi-detached are called link houses.

Here most apartments are called condos and a condo with 2 storeys is a duplex.

Actually what I learned recently is that, in the US, a condominium has seperate ownership but appartments are all owned by one company and individual units can only be rented.

https://www.rent.com/blog/difference-between-condo-and-apartment/

Just go into an estate agent and ask them whether they're half duplex and full duplex.

Marcusm

Witchie wrote: »

In Malaysia they call detached houses bungalows, despite them usually being 2 storey and semi-detached are called link houses.

Here most apartments are called condos and a condo with 2 storeys is a duplex.

A bungalow is derived from Bengali ghar, a Bengal (Bangladesh) style house. There is had more to do with verandahs and being detached. Bungalow only denotes single story (apart from dormers) in Ireland and the U.K.

recedite

I do like to sit out on the verandah in my jodhpurs, sipping a darjeeling.

inforfun

Giving places names they dont deserve is quite normal on daft
4th floor appartement with no view whatsoever is advertised as a "penthouse" without irony.

And since we have gone international: Semi-detached is called a "2-under-1-roof" in The Netherlands.