Newbie here, would like to know the difference.

Bungalow is one house standalone all by itself; the legal term is called "detached house". Which brings me to the next term, semi-detached, or "semi-D" for short, simply means the bungalow cut into half so becomes two houses. Real luxury bungalows are called Good Class Bungalows (GCB), which must have a MINIMUM land area of 1,400sm and above, while the bungalow itself can only be two storeys high. There is no such thing as good class semi-D, in case you wondering...

Terrace houses are a stretch of houses all joined up together, those in-between are called intermediate terrace or "inter-terrace" for short, while those at the corner of the stretch are called "corner-terrace". Inter-terrace has two faces (front & back), while corner-terrace has three faces (front, side & back). Corner terraces are usually more expensive because they have larger land and build-up areas.

If you throw a fence around the whole stretch of terrace houses (or a few stretches), they will be called "townhouses". Throw in a pool, a gym and other facilities with a security guard, then they become "cluster-houses".

There are, though very rare, "cluster-bungalows", which means a few detached houses within a fenced compound with shared facilities and a security guard. Maybe people do not like it, since they will end up looking very similar to the chalets at NSRCC...

Edited February 4, 200917 yr by zirhk3355

Bungalow is one house standalone all by itself; the legal term is called "detached house". Which brings me to the next term, semi-detached, or "semi-D" for short, simply means the bungalow cut into half so becomes two houses. Real luxury bungalows are called Good Class Bungalows (GCB), which must have a MINIMUM land area of 1,400sm and above, while the bungalow itself can only be two storeys high. There is no such thing as good class semi-D, in case you wondering...

Terrace houses are a stretch of houses all joined up together, those in-between are called intermediate terrace or "inter-terrace" for short, while those at the corner of the stretch are called "corner-terrace". Inter-terrace has two faces (front & back), while corner-terrace has three faces (front, side & back). Corner terraces are usually more expensive because they have larger land and build-up areas.

If you throw a fence around the whole stretch of terrace houses (or a few stretches), they will be called "townhouses". Throw in a pool, a gym and other facilities with a security guard, then they become "cluster-houses".

There are, though very rare, "cluster-bungalows", which means a few detached houses within a fenced compound with shared facilities and a security guard. Maybe people do not like it, since they will end up looking very similar to the chalets at NSRCC...

Thanks for the detail explanation.