Multi-storey Flats

Definition for a multi-storey flat

The term flat is synonymous with the term 'apartments' and both are used interchangeably, while former term is more common in UK English regions and latter in US English regions. A multi-storey flat is a complete in itself housing unit that includes a kitchen, bathrooms, bed rooms and living rooms etc. It occupies only part of a building. Multi-storey flats may be owned by an owner-occupier or rented by tenants.

Main highlights of a multi-storey flat

Key features of multi-storey flats could be following-

Small multi-storey flats often have only one entrance/exit. Large multi-storey flats often have two entrances/exits, perhaps a door in the front and another in the back. Depending on the multi-storey building design, the entrance/exit doors may be directly to the outside or to a common area inside, such as a hallway.

Depending on location, multi-storey flats may be available for rent furnished with furniture or unfurnished into which a tenant usually moves in with his/her own furniture. Permanent carpeting is often included in a multi-storey flat. Laundry facilities may be found in a common area accessible to all the tenants in the multi-storey building, or each multi-storey flat may have its own facilities.

On or around the ground floor of the multi-storey flat building, a series of mailboxes are typically kept in a location accessible to the public and, thus, to the letter-carrier too. Every unit typically gets its own mailbox with individual keys to it. Some very large multi-storey flat buildings with a full-time staff may take mail from the mailman and provide mail-sorting service.

Depending on when the multi-storey building was built and the design of the multi-storey building, utilities such as water, heating, and electricity may be common for all the multi-storey flats in the building or separate for each multi-storey flat and billed separately to each tenant. Telephone service is optional and is practically always billed separately from the rent payments. Cable television and similar amenities are extra also. Parking space(s), air conditioner, and extra storage space may or may not be included with an multi-storey flat.

In smaller multi-storey flat buildings such as two- or three-flats, or even four-flats, garbage is often disposed of in trash containers similar to those used at houses. In larger buildings, garbage is often collected in a common trash bin or dumpster.

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Buying your multi-storey flat

What will my future financial commitments be?
Once you buy your multi-storey flat, you will be responsible for maintaining it. You will also have to pay a percentage of the maintenance costs for the whole block.

What type of routine costs will I be faced with?

• Routine day-to-day maintenance to the building your flat is in.
• Planned maintenance to the block

What does planned maintenance include and how often is it carried out?

• Replacing shared laundry equipment (usually every ten years)
• Replacing the door-entry system (usually every fifteen years)
• Maintaining the shared TV system (usually every fifteen years)
• Replacing the fire alarm (usually every twenty years)
• Replacing the lift (usually every twenty years)
• Replacing the emergency lighting battery (usually every twenty years)
• Structural work (usually every five to seven years)
• Painting shared areas inside (usually every eight to ten years)
• Painting shared areas outside (usually every four to five years)

Before considering buying your multi-storey flat, please consider carefully the hidden costs and ask yourself if you can afford it. You should talk to a solicitor about buying your multi-storey flat before you go ahead.

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Accessibility of multi-storey flats

Multi-storey flats should be as accessible as possible directly from the street, and preferably not too far from it, as is often the case in multi-storey building. Whenever, as in the case of multi-storey flats, you can only reach your own multi-storey flat indirectly by way of communal halls, elevators, staircases, galleries or arcades, there is the risk of these communal spaces being so anonymous that they discourage informal contacts between residents. Even if the need for a certain amount of privacy for each unity in multi-storey flats has been taken into account, people who live nextdoor, above or under each other, do have a lot to do with each other, while the spatial conditions for this are lacking. Also in a block of multi-storey flats it is difficult to know where to welcome friends and where to say goodbye.

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That's it. A multi-storey flats is for life. Play it safe.