fionamw

If you live in a modern single storey property do you consider it a villa? Casa? If you're what the UK market would call semi-detached what do you call your property? Do terraced houses get called something different? End of terrace? Bigger country houses with land might be cortijos, or in some places lugares...is the finca just the land or the house too? ... it's all so very confusing
(old former mill, previously owned all the valley now just less than 5,000sq m, since you're asking... I think of it as a casa but...????)

cricketman

Ha, ha.

We just wrote a similar thing at the same time on 2 separate threads

As they say, no such thing as original thought

I guess you live in a molino or a cortijo. You could call it "Cortijo El Molino"

jojojojojojojojojojojojo

I just call mine a house!! I guess its what people/expats would call a detached villa, I suppose with the white ballastrades it looks like "a villa" - what is a villa anyway tho?? Yes there are a variety of names for places!

Jo xxx

lynnxa

I live in a flat - but if I'm wanting to sound posh it becomes an apartment

Rotor

Not sure , mine was 2 cortijos which I knocked into one , its a bit big a 170 mts to be a cortijo, a Spanish mate says its a casa.

cricketman

Villa and finca are both misused by British estate agents

As said on the other thread, a villa is a village not a house
And a finca is a plot of land, it isnt the property itself

raddickle

I live in an apartment - but if I'm wanting to sound posh it becomes a duplex

snikpoh

We have 7000m2 of land and the 'house' is about 530m2. We call it a casa or villa when talking to Brits.

The Spanish, however, refer to it as a casita (small house) .

lynnxa

the duplex apartments around here become áticos if the top floor of the duplex is at the the building

cricketman

Yep, áticos are highly valued by Spaniards, especially in the cities where they are much more expensive than the flats beneath them.

Its because you get more light, often more terracing and better views.

lynnxa

true enough - but the ones in my block only have a bedroom at the top, sort of stuck on top of an apartment

Rotor

I doubt the Spanish refer to a 530m2 house as a casita , more like a castillo

montgomail

I notice that estate agents market them differently and that a flat is cheaper than an apartment. So would an apartment be part of a complex with parking and pool, with flats being in the town with no facilities?

snikpoh

We have what we call a duplex in town but it's certainly not an atico. You go in at ground level and the second floor, whilst in the roof, has the bedrooms and the bathroom. Just like a normal house really but it's in/attached to a block of flats.

manamama

I live in a duplex.

It's a two floor flat really with a small garden...we're on the ground and there is another duplex above.

Very popular around here...