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Revision as of 22:32, 28 June 2019
Residential
Single-family detached
Examples of single-family detached house types include:
- Central-passage house (North America)
- Chattel house (Caribbean)
- Cottage (various)
- Courtyard house (various)
- Konak (Asia)
- Log house (various)
- Housebarn (various)
- Split level home (various)
- Upper Lusatian house (Europe)
Single-family attached (small multi-family)
- Duplex, semi-detached, double-decker, or two-family
- Triplex, triple-decker or three-family
- Quadplex, quadruple, or four-family
- Townhouse or terraced house
Large multi-family (apartments/flats)
- Garden or walk-up apartments: 1-5 stories, 50-400 units, no elevators[1]
- Mid-rise apartments: 5-9 stories, 30-110 units, with elevators[1]
- High-rise apartments: 9+ stories, 100+ units, professionally managed[1]
- Special-purpose group housing[1]
Commercial
Commercial buildings, generally, are buildings used by businesses to sell their products to consumers.[1][2]
Office
Office buildings are generally categorized by size and by quality (e.g., "a low-rise Class A building")[3]
- Office buildings by size
- Low-rise (less than 7 stories)
- Mid-rise (7-25 stories)
- High-rise (more than 25 stories), including skyscrapers (over 40 stories)
- Office buildings by quality[4][5][6]
- Trophy or 5-star building: A landmark property designed by a recognized architect
- Class A or 4-star building: Rents in the top 30-40% of the local market; well-located; above-average upkeep and management; usually older than a trophy/5-star building
- Class B or 3-star building: Rents between Class A and Class C; fair-to-good locations; average upkeep and management
- Class C or 2-star building: Rents in the bottom 10-20% of the local market; less-desirable locations; below-average upkeep and management
- 1-star building: Does not meet the needs of typical tenants; may be obsolete and/or in need of significant renovation[4]
Retail
Retail buildings are categorized by their configuration and size[7]
- Non-freestanding (also known as shopping malls)
- Super-regional shopping center: enclosed space; 800,000+ sqft; 5+ anchor stores with other tenants that sell a very large variety of goods
- Regional shopping center: enclosed space; 400,000–800,000 sqft; 1–5 anchor stores with other tenants that sell a large variety of goods
- Community shopping center: open space; 125,000–400,000 sqft; provides general merchandise and commodities (e.g., supermarket, discount department store)
- Neighborhood shopping center: open space; 3,000–125,000 sqft; provides commodities to nearby neighborhoods (e.g. drug store)
- Strip or convenience shopping center: open space; less than 30,000 sqft; located along suburban transportation arteries on shallow land parcels; a strip may be configured in a straight line, or have an "L" or "U" shape
- Lifestyle center: "Main Street" concept with pedestrian circulation in core and vehicular circulation along perimeter; upscale national chain specialty stores, dining or entertainment (e.g. The Grove, Los Angeles, CA; Americana at Brand, Glendale, CA)
- Freestanding: any stand-alone retail structure that is not part of a complex
- Big box: freestanding category-dominant retailer; 50,000+ sqft (e.g. The Home Depot, Target, Walmart)
- Power center: among the largest types of retail properties; 3+ big box anchor stores; multiple large buildings with parking lot in front and loading in back; smaller retailers usually clustered in a community shopping center configuration
- Retail outlet: manufacturers' outlet stores; 50,000–400,000 sqft
- Pop-up retail: a retail location designed to only be in a location temporarily (e.g., a retail store that only opens during a holiday season)
Hotels
- Full service hotels
- Travelers' hotels
- Extended stay hotels
- Boutique hotels
- Casino
- Resort
Special-purpose
Industrial
Industrial buildings are primarily used for the production and storage/distribution of goods, among other uses.[8]
Manufacturing
Warehouse/distribution
- Warehouses
- Bulk warehouse
- Cold/cool/refrigerator/freezer storage
- High-cube (an industrial building with a large amount of vertical clearance, a.k.a. "high bay")
- Warehouse store or retail warehouse
- Distribution/fulfillment centers
- Container terminals
- Truck terminals
Flex space
Infrastructure
- Composting facility
- Desalination plant
- Waste transfer centre
- Power generation
Agricultural
- Abbatoir
- Barn
- Chicken coop or chickenhouse
- Cow-shed
- Farmhouse
- Granary, Hórreo
- Greenhouse
- Hayloft
- Pigpen or sty
- Root cellar
- Shed
- Silo
- Slaughterhouse
- Stable
- Storm cellar
- Well house
- Crib
- Windmill
Specialty
- Educational
- Civic
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- Religious
- Government
- Military
- Transport
- Airport terminal
- Bus station
- Metro (subway, underground) station
- Taxi station
- Railway station (or, primarily in US, Railroad station)
- Lighthouse
- Shipyard
- Space port
- Hovercraft
- Ferry terminal
- Cruise terminal
- Boathouse
- Parking garage
- Hangar
- Other
References
- ^ a b c d e Schmidt, Robert (2018-11-25). "Types of Commercial Real Estate". PropertyMetrics. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
- ^ Marsh, Amanda (2016-05-18). "The 6 Types of Commercial Real Estate Properties - VTS Blog". VTS Blog. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
- ^ Sicola, Maria (March 2017). "Office Terminology". Commercial Real Estate Terms and Definitions (PDF). The NAIOP Research Foundation. pp. 27–31.
- ^ a b "CoStar Building Rating System" (PDF). CoStar.
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(help) - ^ Wolf, Liz (2016-04-12). "The 3 Classes of Office Buildings: What Do They Really Mean? - VTS Blog". VTS Blog. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
- ^ Kugler, Thomas. "Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International". Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
- ^ Sicola, Maria (March 2017). "Retail Terminology". Commercial Real Estate Terms and Definitions (PDF). The NAIOP Research Foundation. pp. 32–36.
- ^ Sicola, Maria (March 2017). "Industrial Terminology". Commercial Real Estate Terms and Definitions (PDF). The NAIOP Research Foundation. pp. 21–26.
See also
Media related to Buildings by function at Wikimedia Commons