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British English - American English: residence 2/3

Buying a house - Formalities:

BRITISH ENGLISH:	BRITISH OR AMERICAN ENGLISH:	AMERICAN ENGLISH:
A solicitor, a notary	A Lawyer	An attorney
An estate agency, an estate agent, estate agent's		A realtor, a real estate agent, a real estate office
An estate agent	A real estate agent	A realtor
A council estate, a block of flats, a block of council flats	A social housing	A housing project
Council housing	Social housing	Public housing
A council flat		A public housing apartment
A title deed		A property deed
An owner		A homeowner
To buy sth on hire purchase, to buy sth on HP, to buy sth on tick		To buy sth on credit, to purchase sth on credit
For rent		For rent
Town gas	Manufactured domestic gas	Mains gas

What you can buy/rent:

BRITISH ENGLISH:	BRITISH OR AMERICAN ENGLISH:	AMERICAN ENGLISH:
A flat		An apartment
A block of flats		An apartment building
A block of individually owned flats		A condominium
A flat in a block of individually owned flats, a condo		A condominium

Sizes:

BRITISH ENGLISH:	BRITISH OR AMERICAN ENGLISH:	AMERICAN ENGLISH:
A studio flat, one roomed flat, a bedsit, a bedsitter, a bedsitting room		An efficiency, an efficiency apartment, a studio apartment
One-bedroom flat, 1-bedroom flat.		One-bedroom apartment, 1-bedroom apartment, a two-roomed apartment
A two-bedroom flat, a 2-bedroom flat.		A two-bedroom apartment, a three-roomed apartment
A garden		A yard
A terrace		A patio

Floors:

BRITISH ENGLISH:	BRITISH OR AMERICAN ENGLISH:	AMERICAN ENGLISH:
A lift		An elevator
	A Duplex, a split-level apartment, a maisonette
A three-floor flat		A three-story apartment
The ground floor	The ground floor	The first floor
The first floor		The second floor
The nineteenth storey		The twentieth story = (n+1)
A storey, storeys (vu de l'extérieur du bâtiment)	A floor (vu de l'intérieur du bâtiment)	A story, stories (vu de l'extérieur du bâtiment)
single-storey dwelling, single-storey accommodation	Bungalow	Single-story dwelling, single story accommodation

WINDOWS:

BRITISH ENGLISH:	BRITISH OR AMERICAN ENGLISH:	AMERICAN ENGLISH:
A French window		A French door
A roller shutter		A roller shade
A blind		A shade, a window shade
	A blind
A roller blind		A roller shade, a roller window shade
	A venetian blind
Louvred shutters	Shutters	Louvered shuttered

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1. To rent or buy a property, you'll go to .

2. After asking about our wishes, the offers us properties in accordance with our choices.

3. If we buy the house, after the agreement of the bank, we have to go to .

4. The sollicitor will give us our , to prove that the property belongs to us.

5. With low incomes, people must apply for a . The delay can be extremely long!

6. Being an , in a condominium, does not mean that you can do what you want. There are specific rules to reside there.

7. People with reduced mobility should live only in dwelling housing.

8. A overlooks a balcony, a terrace, a courtyard, a garden.

9. The make it possible to see clearly even closed: they can be used as an air conditioning during too hot days.

10. The are real deadly traps for many animals that come to nest or to shelter in the interstices of the system.

11. For Laurel who lives on the seventeenth floor, the is a necessity, but it is often out of order.

12. In most buildings, heating runs on .

13. The are the least attractive flats: lack of brightness, increased risk of theft, noises from the entrance hall...

14. ...but they are easier and less expensive to move and live, and icing on the cake, are sometimes coupled with a .

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