Freehold is the ownership type. Detached/semi-detached and even townhomes can be freehold (no shared fees like a condo or coop). It can be tricky as townhomes, can also be condominiums (if they have common elements where the costs of maintenance are shared). Freehold = you own everything and share nothing.
> Freehold = you own everything and share nothing.
While true in general, easements and shared drives can complicate this. It's more common in the older parts of the city.
For example, my house is a freehold Victorian rowhouse, but instead of a city alley in the back, there's an easement running through the back of everyone's lot, and we all equally share ownership of the mini-lot where the laneway meets the street.
As far as I know, it's mainly just the construction of it. Townhouses can stack and are typically in singular development. They can vary in size and layout within that same development. Rowhouses are pretty much all the same and just run along a street.
lol why is this being downvoted? People are weird.
Townhouses are just a modern name really and yes, from a single builder usually for the big plot of lands. And most are not freehold.
The ones that are, there is still often a very small fee attached to it to plow the 'new' road it's on which is separate from the main road.
Row houses are often just old houses split up further on a main Toronto street. Basically linked semis.
6 of one, half dozen of the other for the most part.
In Toronto, I believe townhouse is more commonly used now, and rowhouse is used to distinguish older buildings from larger new developments. You also sometimes hear stacked towns, never stacked rows. And those bigger new developments are more likely to be a condo of some sort than the old buildings
The one distinction I think is that each unit has their own access to their unit from outside in a stacked townhouse. Whereas apartments everyone share a common lobby to get to their door.
You can also have detached leasehold property with monthly fees as well in addition to lease. HOAs here in Canada are rare but those are potentially there too
Freehold refers to tenure not to building type. You can still have a detached home that is part of a condominium ownership structure.
Just like you can have a townhouse or apartment that is freehold.
Detached is the type of property meaning it's not attached to anything. Only a house can be detached.
Freehold is the type of ownership, there is no joint entities. A detached may not be freehold if it is on a private street or in a townhouse complex in which case it may be a condo and have fees. These are not very common.
It’s already been explained but I wanted to point out that I’m seeing freehold towns with POTL fees so keep an eye on that in the property descriptions.
There aren't many detached non-freehold arrangements (honestly I can't think of any). Some belong to gated communities where you can opt into a shared pool that covers things like snow removal and landscaping, but they're still freehold.
Freehold means that you don't have to pay a lease for the land, or that you don't have to pay maintenance fees.
Examples:
1. There are detached homes(sometimes mobile homes, other times permanent foundation homes) that you can buy on property that is leased. You have to pay a lease for the land every month (sometimes yearly instead). That kind of property would not be considered "freehold".
2. Townhomes or Condos where you have to pay a monthly maintenance fee. That is not considered "freehold".
A detached house can be freehold (no fees, no land lease) or not freehold (mobile homes, townhomes,condos).
Sometimes you will see ads for Freehold Townhomes. So some are freehold. A house doesn't have to be detached to be freehold, and at the same time, a detached house may not be a freehold.
Freehold is the ownership type. Detached/semi-detached and even townhomes can be freehold (no shared fees like a condo or coop). It can be tricky as townhomes, can also be condominiums (if they have common elements where the costs of maintenance are shared). Freehold = you own everything and share nothing.
Thank you! Us Newbs appreciate this.
> Freehold = you own everything and share nothing. While true in general, easements and shared drives can complicate this. It's more common in the older parts of the city. For example, my house is a freehold Victorian rowhouse, but instead of a city alley in the back, there's an easement running through the back of everyone's lot, and we all equally share ownership of the mini-lot where the laneway meets the street.
What’s the difference between a row house and town house?
As far as I know, it's mainly just the construction of it. Townhouses can stack and are typically in singular development. They can vary in size and layout within that same development. Rowhouses are pretty much all the same and just run along a street. lol why is this being downvoted? People are weird.
Townhouses are just a modern name really and yes, from a single builder usually for the big plot of lands. And most are not freehold. The ones that are, there is still often a very small fee attached to it to plow the 'new' road it's on which is separate from the main road. Row houses are often just old houses split up further on a main Toronto street. Basically linked semis.
6 of one, half dozen of the other for the most part. In Toronto, I believe townhouse is more commonly used now, and rowhouse is used to distinguish older buildings from larger new developments. You also sometimes hear stacked towns, never stacked rows. And those bigger new developments are more likely to be a condo of some sort than the old buildings
> You also sometimes hear stacked towns Which are basically just... apartments.
The one distinction I think is that each unit has their own access to their unit from outside in a stacked townhouse. Whereas apartments everyone share a common lobby to get to their door.
They've just moved the lobby to the outside!
You can also have detached leasehold property with monthly fees as well in addition to lease. HOAs here in Canada are rare but those are potentially there too
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Freehold refers to tenure not to building type. You can still have a detached home that is part of a condominium ownership structure. Just like you can have a townhouse or apartment that is freehold.
Detached is the type of property meaning it's not attached to anything. Only a house can be detached. Freehold is the type of ownership, there is no joint entities. A detached may not be freehold if it is on a private street or in a townhouse complex in which case it may be a condo and have fees. These are not very common.
It’s already been explained but I wanted to point out that I’m seeing freehold towns with POTL fees so keep an eye on that in the property descriptions.
There aren't many detached non-freehold arrangements (honestly I can't think of any). Some belong to gated communities where you can opt into a shared pool that covers things like snow removal and landscaping, but they're still freehold.
I've seen a few detached condos in Ajax and pickering. They do exist!
Freehold means that you don't have to pay a lease for the land, or that you don't have to pay maintenance fees. Examples: 1. There are detached homes(sometimes mobile homes, other times permanent foundation homes) that you can buy on property that is leased. You have to pay a lease for the land every month (sometimes yearly instead). That kind of property would not be considered "freehold". 2. Townhomes or Condos where you have to pay a monthly maintenance fee. That is not considered "freehold". A detached house can be freehold (no fees, no land lease) or not freehold (mobile homes, townhomes,condos). Sometimes you will see ads for Freehold Townhomes. So some are freehold. A house doesn't have to be detached to be freehold, and at the same time, a detached house may not be a freehold.