'PROPERTY'. This means 'home' or 'house' right? Does this 'new' word annoy you too?
Question:Its property this and property that. I've even heard idiots trying to sell their bed-sits calling it a property. In the true sense of the word it is 'property' but this is an estate-agent term but we all know they are inhuman moneybaggers that would sell your gran as 'property'. Come on your house is your home, not some cold commodity to make you rich surely? When did you last hear somebody trying to sell their 'house' or 'home' ?
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Too right matey. I recently briefly dated this moran who had just bought his first 'flat' to get onto the 'property ladder'. He kept going on about how he was doing this and that to the 'property' and you would never think that he might actually need to live in it.
Mabye they should make those little name plates that say 'The Property', certainly a change from 'Bluebell Cottage'. ... and while they are at it, why not stick a 'property ladder' against the wall in case the roof tiles fall off. After all, there is so much wind blowing about, this is likely to happen.
lol! ;-)
A house is not a flat and vice versa, if I have moved out to a new place and am now trying to sell then it is not my home.
Property covers everything, in the same way as the police always use the expression vehicle to cover everything.
Property is anything you own, not just houses or flats
well, that is a tuffy. To dehumanise things seems to be the norm.
One of my pet hates in Estate Agents jargon is 'the property boasts .' what a load of cobblers.
The Wikipedia definition states:
Property designates those things that are commonly recognized as the entities that a person or group has exclusive rights in respect of. Important types of property include real property (land), personal property (other physical possessions), and intellectual property (rights over artistic creations, inventions, etc.). A right of ownership is associated with property that establishes the good as being "one's own thing" in relation to other individuals or groups, assuring the owner the right to dispense with the property in a manner he or she sees fit, whether to use or not use, exclude others from using, or to transfer ownership. Some philosophers assert that property rights arise from social convention.
Have a look here and get the rest - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/property...
Hope this fuels the discussion fires.
As one famous philosopher said - everything is context. When we are speaking about real estate... buying, selling, renting... then even a tiny apartment is a property. Property is really short for immovable property or real estate. If the context of the piece of writing or conversation has to do with value, buying, selling or renting, then using the word property is quite correct.
If the context is friendly, such as asking someone to come and have a coffee, you would say "at my home," or "my house," or even "at my apartment". Or even if you are phoning the police to report a robbery, you would say :"There has been a robbery at my house. Come quickly."
Even if you are being nasty, you would probably have to say, "She has a really messy home."
When we say property, we are being technical - a property constitutes a home and the land it stands on and the airspace that floats above it. A bed-sit is a property if you are about to buy it. So is a castle. If you own a castle and want to list it with a real estate agent, it instantly turns into a property. So does a condo.
When we say home, we are being conversational and non-businesslike. But, you ask, I read on the paper that there are HOMES FOR SALE - yes, this is real estate agents using emotion-speak and conversational words to attract us. What they are really doing is trying to sell properties.
Hope this helps.
the word "property" was pounced upon by builders/planners to describe the horrible rabbit hutch/ shed type buildings that are popping up on every square inch of most towns. they arent big enough to be called houses or flats.they have no garden and usually have one parking place for 2 or 3 eerrrmmm properties.
When you say the word property, I think of land with nothing on it. no house.
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