Can you sell your flat, which is rented from somebody?
January 12th, 2010
I’m learning English. My English text book says “The couple put up their flat for sale.” and the text book says it means the couple are selling their apartment.
But an apartment means rented rooms. Why they can sell the rooms?
In my country you can’t sell rooms you are renting from somebody because they are not yours.
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You can buy apartments, although somebody else still owns the whole building. I -think- it’s called leasehold, where you own it for a certain number of years.
In some areas..New York, for one, they call condominiums “apartments” or “flats” and they buy and sell them as Single Family Residences. They actually own them….its just a name confusion. We are accustomed to calling privately owned apartments “condominiums”…people in other regions are using different names for the same thing.
English is very confusing. Many people refer to an “apartment” as something that is not a house. That’s where it could be confusing. Clarification is needed but not provided in this case.