In my city, there doesn’t seem to be any two-bed one-bath apartments, if you want two bedrooms, your only choice is to also have two bathrooms. The majority of two-bedroom floorplans I’ve found online also reflects this. Is there a reason why having one bathroom for two bedrooms is so unpopular? I can’t imagine a family that occupies two bedrooms have that many instances of two people needing the bathroom at the exact same time, other than maybe in the morning, but even then it wouldn’t be the case for every family. Wouldn’t it make more sense at least for some people to use the space that would have been for a second bathroom as a storage room or a small study? That space could also just not exist and result in a somewhat smaller and cheaper apartment.
This is from the perspective of US and Canadian apartments, are two-bed one-bath apartments more common in other parts of the world? If not, why? I definitely remember our apartment in China had three bedrooms and one bathroom, but it’s an old building and I don’t know if new apartments are still built like that over there.
Intended for flat-sharing between strangers. In general you can bear to share a kitchen and living room but people want their own bedrooms and bathrooms.
Two single young professionals can pay much higher rent than a family. So the landlords are just targeting the highest profits.
This is all just a guess by the way i don’t really know the answer.
and even if you have a couple who need an extra bedroom of space, there is great value in not having to keep all your cosmetics in the same space that’s tidy enough to be the “guest bathroom”
It’s less common in the UK. Our three-bed terrace, for example, only has one bath—but that’s mainly because of the old housing stock and the comparatively small size of our houses compared to other countries. I see plenty of new builds with en-suite bathrooms now.
We manage okay with one, but I wouldn’t mind another.
