Apartment

This article is about the type of housing. For other uses, see Apartment (disambiguation).

A new-style apartment building at Adeline Avenue and Larciano Street, in San Jose, California, with balconies, a multi-colored scheme, and boxy, geometric shapes, disguising the fact that it is one building

An apartment (North American English), flat (British English, Indian English, South African English) or unit (Australian English), is a self-contained housing unit that occupies part of a building. 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) or leasehold, to tenants renting from a private landlord. The buildings that contain apartments may be called different things depending on size or country (see below).