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🏠 A three-unit home 3️⃣ Having three parts
triplex

triplex

1 5.2
A building divided into three homes, each with its own entrance
  • noun
  • /ˈtrɪplɛks/
  • US
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  • Now the cool thing about turning this into a triplex would mean rather than just renting out the entire property, I now have three legal units.
  • triplex or duplex

And if you're buying the in the FHA loan works for duplex or single family duplex, triplex, fourplex.

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Examples

  • He moved tenants into the triplex about three months ago.

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  • No, but I got a beautiful triplex for the Charles Aranows, 12 rooms on Park Avenue, and they made one into a Hamptons room.

    Celebrity (1998)

  • The owners currently occupy a triplex on floors one through three, which includes three bedrooms, four full bathrooms, two kitchens, a living room, a formal dining room, and a library.

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  • Buy a multi-dwelling (duplex, triplex) if you can make it work for you, and this is your first buy, so you have some help with the mortgage. Then later on, when you can buy a single-family house, you can keep the first as your first investment property.

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  • The new triplex offers three distinct apartments, allowing each family their own space.

  • After the renovation, the historic building became a stylish triplex with private entrances for each unit.

  • They converted the old house into a triplex, creating three separate homes for their extended family.

How Many Units

apartment building
  • US
98 1.2
triplex
  • US
1 5.2
duplex
  • US
16 3.5

Surface Forms

triplex singular
triplexes plural

Morphology

triplex = triple (transparent) = tri + plex

The building sense is a straightforward extension of 'threefold' (analogous to 'duplex' meaning two units), so learners who know 'triple' or 'duplex' can infer the meaning.

Etymology

Triplex for a building uses the same parts, tri- 'three' and plex 'fold' or 'parts'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of a duplex (two homes) plus one more, so a triplex is a home divided into three separate units with their own entrances.