show flat

English

Noun

show flat (plural show flats)

1. (chiefly UK) A newly built, decorated, and furnished flat that is intended as an example rather than to be rented.
   • 2010, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Committee for Privileges and Conduct, Stationery Office, The conduct of Baroness Uddin, →ISBN:

     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.

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

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