In this buyer's guide, we've gathered everything you need to know about the different housing types.
When it comes to housing dreams, you'll often hear terms like: villa, murermestervilla (master-builder villa), patriciervilla (patrician villa), villalejlighed (villa flat), and so on.
But what do these different housing types actually mean? Read on below:
Villa A villa is a popular housing type — a detached property that can also go by the term parcelhus (single-family house).
A villa is built to house one or more families and is most often seen with a surrounding garden.
The word villa also stems from Latin and means "a house in the country."
Murermestervilla (master-builder villa)
A murermestervilla was most often built in the period 1910-1940.
A murermestervilla is a solidly constructed house — a good, spacious home over one and a half or two storeys.
Patriciervilla (patrician villa)
The saying "go big or go home" was followed closely here.
Patrician villas were built for families from the upper middle class. The word patrician stems from the Roman Empire, where a patrician was a high-ranking official.
Patriciervilla denotes a large, distinctive and impressive villa built from roughly 1860-1930.
The home was built with the finest materials and designed by leading architects, in order to underline and symbolise status.
Villalejlighed (villa flat)
Villa flats, also called two-family houses, are often registered as ideelle anparter (undivided co-ownership shares).
This means it's a single property, but with two entries in the land register (tingbogen).
It's typically a large villa divided by floor and fitted out as two separate units.
What's the difference between a villa flat, a semi-detached house and a terraced house: it's a villa flat if you share a house where there's one home on the ground floor and another on the first floor.
You identify a multi-storey building if the boundary between the homes is horizontal. If, on the other hand, there's a vertical boundary between the homes — i.e. a wall separating two homes from each other — it's called a semi-detached house (dobbelthus).
If there are more than two homes built adjoining one another, this is called a terraced house (rækkehus).
If it's your first time investing in a home on the property market, you can read more about what a first-time buyer should be aware of.
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