For many of us, home means a flat in an apartment complex, where the building management often provides an extra layer of security.

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Health and safety officials have been checking gas appliances inside the flat to trace a leak, and the apartment block has been evacuated while tests continue.

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That is also true of his father, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who bought a flat at Scotts 28 too, and another apartment in Nassim Jade last year, as did B.

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The second-floor apartment was gorgeous, with hardwood floors, a flat-screen television and a large, comfortable bedroom.

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The average price for a flat in Gangnam is around 808 million won and an 185sqm apartment rents for around 6.5 million won a month.

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Again like most rich men, he has lots of houses (two by Lutyens in Britain, a flat in Cannes, a villa in Tuscany and a Park Lane apartment) all lovingly described by the investigating teams.

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For example, a major terrorist attack in London was disrupted last year when a grandmother noticed a group of young men frequenting a flat that contained no furniture and then detected a strange chemical smell wafting from the apartment.

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Right after the first of the year the family moved to Chicago, population 2.2 million, where Jack and Nelle chose another flat with six rooms an architectural feature unique to Illinois, and particularly Chicago, that gives an apartment the feel of a house.

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