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Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo
Japanese people own apartments all the time. We call them condos in English (to differentiate from apartments, which are rentals) but I hear Japanese people refer to "buying an apartment" all the time.
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They don't. Like I said, they use a different word and call them manshon マンション.
Just like in English the Japanese loanword apāto アパート is used only to refer to renting the room or when you're talking about the building complex itself.