What's the difference between a house and an apartment? What do you mean by apartment office? Can I use it as an office?

First of all, the difference between a house and an apartment

(1) Different property rights. Apartments can be roughly divided into three types, namely ordinary apartments, business apartments and serviced apartments. Among them, the common apartment land is residential land, and the property right is 70 years; The land for business apartments is comprehensive, and the property right is forty or fifty years. The land for serviced apartments is commercial land, and the property right is 40 years. But the nature of ordinary residential land is residential land, and the property right is 70 years.

(2) The payment standards of water, electricity and property fees are different. 40-or 50-year-old apartments are not allowed to use open flames, and there is no gas supply. They can only use induction cookers for cooking and electricity and water for business, so the cost of living is high and the property fee is relatively expensive, generally more than 4 yuan per square meter. Ordinary houses are people's water and electricity, and property fees are relatively cheap.

(3) Different housing loan policies. Apartments are not ordinary houses, and they are generally not limited to purchase. If you buy an ordinary house, there are usually many restrictions, such as the need to submit social security or tax payment certificates.

(D) Different living comfort. Generally, there are two stairs, three or four, with few people, which will not bring trouble to travel and have better privacy; Commercial apartments are generally two stairs and ten households, or even more. There are not only many people but also chaos, and security and privacy cannot be well guaranteed.

Second, the meaning of apartment-style office

Apartment office building is a special property form, which has both office and residential functions. Usually divided into small units, the average construction area of each unit is ≥ 150m2, which is usually treated as an office building, and the average construction area of each unit is

Third, the apartment office, the law has no clear restrictions.

As long as the apartment is legally developed, the sales link is reasonably taxed and used according to the plan, it can be used for office. When the apartment is designed and built, it can be equipped with offices, conference rooms, bedrooms, kitchens and bathrooms, so we think that the corresponding rooms can be decorated and used according to the approved drawings, but such decoration should be based on the premise of not changing the housing structure and facilities. According to the planned use, the law has no clear restrictions.

Extended data

In the residential design code, the residence is always defined as "a building for families to live in". The following explanation is added to the Code for Residential Design: This definition puts forward two key concepts of housing: "home" and "house". Explain that the design specification of "house" is mainly stipulated according to the living and use requirements of "home".

Apartment generally refers to a building that provides independent or semi-independent living for a specific group of people. Usually, the building is supported by the corresponding public service facilities. Apartments are often named after their occupants, such as student apartments, athletes' apartments, experts' apartments, diplomats' apartments, youth apartments and elderly apartments. The personnel structure of the residents in the apartment is simpler than the family structure in the house, and it rarely changes during the use cycle. Apartments are generally based on buildings, and can even be matched with buildings.

Reference Baidu Encyclopedia-Apartment Office Building