show flat

plural show flats

1. UKA newly built, decorated, and furnished flat that is intended as an example rather than to be rented.

   Regardless of where the show flat is, developers have come up with techniques to make the flats look a lot larger than they actually are.

   2015, Yujing Fun, Cloaking White-Collar Crime in Hong Kong's Property Sector, →ISBN

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   It was a show flat. The living room windows have a heavy curtain. The bathroom does not have an outside window. There is no glass in the front door.

   2010, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Committee for Privileges and Conduct, Stationery Office, The conduct of Baroness Uddin, →ISBN

   A show flat was built in the premises of the school run by the mediating NGO. For the DDA engineer interviewed, the show flat was a way to explain the housing project to Kathputli Colony's residents. The explanations provided by a manager from the private firm stressed another point: the purpose of the show flat was to present it to the DDA for its approval, and not to elicit residents' views.

   2015, Véronique Dupont, David Jordhus-Lier, Catherine Sutherland, The Politics of Slums in the Global South, →ISBN