Improve your English vocabulary for accommodation and real estate
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Vocabulary | Definition | Example |
Real estate | Refers to a property in the form of a land or a building | We’re going to buy a piece of real estate. |
Public Utility | An organization that supplies the public with water, gas, or electricity | The new plan of the government is to support more public utilities. |
To move out | To stop living in a particular place | Her landlord has given her a week to move out. |
To move in | To go to a different place and begin to live there | Owing to huge rent, student prefer prefer not to move in to a city but rather stay in the outskirts |
A hall /corridor | Refers to the room just inside the main entrance of a house, apartment, or other building that leads to other rooms and usually to the stairs | I left my bags in the hall. |
An acquisition | The process of acquiring or getting and owning something for example a property, an apartment, a house etc. | The cost of acquisition is far too high in Paris owing to it being the capital of France. |
To own | Refers to possessing something like for example a property, apartment etc. | He owns a big apartment in the heart of the city with an amazing view of the Eiffel. |
The owner | Refers to a person who owns an appartment or property. | Are you the owner of this flat ? |
To rent /to let | To rent refers to moving in to an apartment for a certain sum or money that is to be paid regularly to its owner while to let refers to giving an apartment to someone for a certain period at a fixed price. | I have decided to let out my apartment to a student for a year . |
A renter | Refers to someone who pays a sum or money to live in a house or apartment that is owned by someone else. | The apartment can only lodge students as renters. |
A rental agreement | A written agreement that underlines the terms and conditions concerning the use and occupancy of a place and its premises. | The rental agreement included the servicing of the asset if there were any problems experienced during the first 30 days. |
A 30-day notice | Refers to the minimum time period to be given to the landlord in advance before moving out from the apartment. | His landlord didn’t return him the deposit paid because he failed to provide a 30 day notice before quitting. |
A deposit | Refers to a certain sum paid at the beginning before moving in to an apartment. | As the deposit was too high, I decided not to move in over there and instead chose another place. |
An elevator (US) /a lift (GB) | Refers to a machine that carries people from one floor of another of a building. | The office was on the tenth floor, so Helen took the elevator. |
The premises / facilities | Refers to the land and buildings owned by someone or by a company or organization | The company is relocating to its new premises. |
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