Residential property divides into public and private, and private into landed and non-landed
A worked RES examination question on residential classification, from our Paper 1 bank — with the rule it turns on, and why each of the four options is right or wrong.
The question
A salesperson is working through the way residential property is classified, because a client has asked him to place two very different homes in the right categories. He explains that residential property divides first into public and private, and that private property divides again into landed and non-landed. The two homes the client has in mind are a condominium unit in a high-rise block and a terrace house in an older estate. The salesperson must say, for each of them, whether it is landed or non-landed private property, and he is aware that getting the two the wrong way round is a common slip.
Which statement is correct?
The answer, and why
Answer: A
The rule. Residential property divides into public and private, and private into landed and non-landed. A condominium is non-landed private property; a terrace house is landed private property.
Why A is correct. The condominium is non-landed; the terrace house is landed.
The other options.
- B reverses the two.
- C makes both non-landed.
- D makes both landed.
Exam note. Landed against non-landed is the private-property split. A terrace sits on its own ground; a condominium unit does not.
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