Midlothian Wood in Midlothian Virginia by Tascon Group
Nancy Levy seems to have solved the mystery of what a "ranch style condominium" looks like. This link goes to a drawing of something that, Nancy notes, looks like what most of us would call a townhome or row house. I still say the term is an oxymoron. Ranch style housing is intentionally sprawling and was designed for places where residential density was very low and therefore land was cheap. Condos were created expressly for high-density living in places where land is expensive--such as beach and resort areas and central cities. Maybe the ranch-style condos in these ads are jsut a condo association form of ownership in a row house setting. Easy enough, and done all the time. So--why not just call them townhomes like everybody else?