The fully detached home (a rarity in San Francisco) has a 3-car garage, plus additional parking.
The gap between the average price of a detached home and other types of property has grown in the past five years.
On some level, the home, whether it has a white picket fence or not, whether it's a condo or a co-op or a detached home, that's the American dream.
"Without it I think we would have been driving round, area to area, " says Curt Parks, who is looking for a four-bed detached home in Berkshire with his partner, Denise.
Kolko dug into Census data to see how common it has been over the years for single young women (aged 25-34) with no children to own a single-family detached home.
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But the events of a few hours in her semi-detached home in Kelvin Road in the early hours of Sunday, 27 June 1999, was to prove that her life was anything but unremarkable.
This change can be witnessed in places like Atlanta, Georgia, Detroit, Michigan, and Dallas, Texas, said Leinberger, where once rundown downtowns are being revitalized by well-educated, young professionals who have no desire to live in a detached single family home typical of a suburbia where life is often centered around long commutes and cars.
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The book takes in not just semi- detached suburbia but commuter towns, shopping villages, mobile-home parks and jerry-rigged coastal settlements.
If the plans go ahead, full planning permission - required for extensions of more than three or four metres from the rear wall of any home - would only be needed for those reaching beyond 8m for detached homes and 6m for others.
The average price of a detached property is now 113% more than for a flat and 107% more than a terraced home, compared with 82% and 67% respectively five years ago.
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