party walls

Between two buildings

A party wall is a wall shared by two adjoining buildings or properties, standing on the boundary line between them.

Each property owner has rights to the wall, and both typically share responsibility for its maintenance.

The term appears most often in real estate and construction contexts: The renovation required agreement from the neighbors because it affected the party wall.

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masonry · easements · partition · row houses · next door · encroachments · buildings · joints · property dispute · structure · property lines · boundary markers · access rights · servitudes · land survey · building regulations · zoning ordinances · flashing

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structural independence

party wallsexterior walls

curtain walls · retaining walls

construction typology

party wallssingle-family home

Freestanding residential dwelling

rural homestead

Family

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