House or Apartment? Apartment or House?

Is your family currently having a discussion about what type of property would be most sensible to acquire? Then you have probably already started listing the pros and cons of living in an apartment or a house, taking into account the needs and wishes of family members. If you haven't done that yet, we've put together some arguments with the help of Homedit. We believe these will help you in making your choice. A house or an apartment?

An apartment is generally smaller than a house

If you need an enormous amount of space, you'll certainly have to decide in favor of a house, since an apartment is usually smaller in area. Of course, an apartment also costs less accordingly. So now you have both price and space on the record. How poetic…

A house requires more care

Yes, nothing is free: you have to pay for everything either with money or time. If you have more space, that also means you have more area that requires constant maintenance and care. Roof, gutters, terrace boards, snow plowing, lawn… Oh yes, it's easy to become a slave to the lawn while living in a house! Fortunately, it's possible to get a robotic lawn mower nowadays, so that's definitely not something to skip buying a house for.

Have you thought about how many windows you'll need to wash if you live in a house? Are you ready for that?

Apartments have lower maintenance costs

In addition to the fact that an apartment costs less, its maintenance costs are also lower. A house has several cost units that you don't have when living in an apartment. You'll probably have to budget for slightly higher transportation costs. On the other hand, when living in a house, you don't have to pay a building manager if you don't want to hire someone yourself.

Apartments offer a wider choice of location

If your dream is to live in a house but as close to the city center as possible, then these two things are very difficult to combine. Generally, there are more location options for apartments, and in new neighborhoods that have emerged around cities in recent years, for example, it's possible to choose between the two.

A house offers more privacy than an apartment

When living in a house, you don't have to worry about neighbors who are loudly celebrating a jubilee behind your bedroom wall. You also don't have that neighbor aunt who fries onions for a week straight, forcing you to share those aromas.

Of course, these are extreme cases and usually an apartment building doesn't have such worries, but typical neighbor noise will certainly reach your apartment. So if you love quiet and peace, then a house is better. Quiet and peace end at the house's terrace, where you hear the sounds of all the surrounding lawn mowers and leaf blowers, but once the work is done, you can all organize a nice garden party together. So the pros and cons are everywhere.

Children have more fun in a house

If you have small children, a house is definitely a better choice, because you have your own playground at hand and you don't have to send your children to a public playground. And as children grow up, the whole neighborhood becomes their playground, where they can do exciting things together with the neighbors' children. Of course, maybe we're being naive and children just sit on a swing with a phone in hand. But we can dream…

A house is better for hosting parties

You want to celebrate a jubilee from time to time too, don't you? Yes, those garden parties! If you like large gatherings and socializing with lots of guests, then a house suits you better.

An apartment is safer than a house

That's true – uninvited guests with dishonest intentions can move about more easily in a house than in an apartment, which requires passing several barriers such as external and apartment doors and sometimes even a gate to the apartment building garden is locked. Someone always notices suspicious activity, but with a house, that might not be the case.

It's more pleasant to keep pets in a house than in an apartment

If you have a large dog, ask him too what your new home could be like. We can bet that he votes for the house. The same is certainly true for cats, who like to roam around outside and whom you'll probably only remember when their belly gets empty.

When living in a house, there's no parking problem

In apartment buildings, parking is usually always some kind of hassle. There are few parking spaces and they usually cost a considerable amount of money. When living in your own house, there's no parking problem and you can even have several cars.

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