Apartments or House- Advantages and Disadvantages

While buying our dream property, we often get confused about whether to buy an apartment or a house. Every property has its advantages and disadvantages and it depends on the buyer’s choice whether he/she wants to go for an apartment or a house. But, still, we can discuss some pros and cons of the above-mentioned properties for comparison to make it easier for the buyer to choose one.

Let us focus on the advantages of living in an apartment:-

• Apartments are affordable while building a house from scratch can cost you an arm and a leg. All the residential apartments are built by some of the top real estate companies in Kolkata, such as the Rajwada Group, Srijan Realty, etc, and are a perfect confluence of Luxury, comfort, and affordability.

• You can enjoy great amenities living in an apartment. The apartments in South Kolkata are situated amidst nature and have uber-luxurious facilities such as a swimming pool, gym, community center, exercise lawn, state-of-the-art- clubhouse, inbuilt jogging track, indoor badminton court, spa, lounge, library, elevator, etc all under the same roof.

• Living in an apartment is much safer than living in a house as an apartment has security services round the clock to ensure your safety. The security services of the apartments keep track of the people entering the premises through CCTV cameras and maintain a register where people need to enter their details and the purpose of their visit but while living in a house your safety is entirely dependent on you. Moreover, during an emergency, you can get prompt help from others while living in an apartment

• Apartments are more convenient in size than houses. You can opt for a 2BHK or 3BHK apartment if you have 4-5 members. For college goers or bachelors 1BHK apartments will be a perfect choice.

• Apartments have many people living in the same place so you can socialize a lot. Apartments have community halls where you can gather during festivals such as Durga Puja, Diwali, or birthday or anniversary celebrations and get to know each other and make new friends.

• You don’t have to shoulder much responsibility while living in an apartment as there are people who can take care of your requirements such as finding an electrician, plumber, or carpenter. You just need to pay a monthly or yearly maintenance charge. Moreover, an apartment has ample space for parking.

Disadvantages of Apartment Living:-

• Though you just need to pay a monthly maintenance fee and all your problems are taken care of, often you have to bear the cost of a facility that you have not used till date.

• Your freedom is somewhat curtailed. You cannot expand your space if you need to. Moreover, you cannot make any outer modifications if you want.

• If you don’t gel with your neighbor well, then you have to bear with them for the rest of your life until they move out or you buy a new one.

Now, let us have a close look at the advantages of living in a house:-

• You enjoy more freedom living in a house than in an apartment.

• The land on which your house is built belongs to you so you can modify and design your house according to your will.

• You have more privacy and you don’t have to pay extra for anything that you don’t use.

Disadvantages of Living in a house:-

You have to buy land and begin from scratch to build a house, it will not only be a time-consuming process but it will cost you more than buying an apartment.

You have to shoulder all the responsibilities alone ranging from calling a plumber to fix a leakage in the bathroom to an electrician to fix any electrical issues and the list will keep on increasing day by day

The safety of the house depends on you. You can hire a gatekeeper if you want but for that, you need to pay.

In my opinion, I will say an apartment will be a better option than a house because apartments are affordable, and you can enjoy more facilities in an apartment. To add the cherry on the top you don’t have to burden any responsibility on your shoulder, the monthly maintenance fee that you will pay, will take care of all your issues and you can lead a more secure life while living in an apartment. So, if you are planning to buy your dream abode soon, then the residential apartments will be the perfect choice for you.

Tanusree is a professional writer working in the real estate field for a long time. She has written many informative articles and blogs on "Real Estate". She has a large reader base that regularly follows her works.