Housing in the UK

And actually, just while I’m talking about houses and housing in the UK, there are three types of houses which you might see in British towns. There are detached homes and semi-detached and terraced houses. And they really do reflect the social status of the people who live in them.

So, at the lower end of the market you have terraced houses, where traditionally more working-class people would live. That’s like a whole row of houses stuck together. And then, in the more middle end of the market, you’ll have semi-detached houses, which are two homes stuck together. They’ll be on two floors. They’re not bungalows on one floor; they’re houses with two floors.

And then, at the top end of the market, you’d have detached houses, which, obviously, is just a home for one family or one person, whoever lives there. And those will be at the higher end of the market, although it can be a little different.

If you also walk around areas of London, for example like Holland Park, you’ll see terraced houses which are worth millions and millions of pounds because they are absolutely beautiful and built in Georgian architecture – or, like what you see in Bath, the same. But if they were detached, they would certainly be even more expensive. Anyway, to get back to flats.